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This is Relic Radio, sci-fi, old- is largely fiction, science fiction.

We make no guarantees, however, how long it will remain fiction.

Exploring tomorrow. And now here's your guide to these adventures of the mind.

John Campbell, Jr.

The philosophers down the ages have hassled a long time and with many words about the good, the true, and the beautiful.

The true, well, that can be defined pretty objectively.

But there's a peculiar thing about beautiful.

What is beauty?

And in whose terms makes it difficult.

With the story of The Adventure of the Beauty Queen,

which stars Miss Charlotte Sheffield,

Miss United States of 1958.

Beauty is a much more complicated problem than the question of truth, actually.

A truth is an eternal thing.

If it's true, it's true, and that's that.

But beauty, beauty is appropriate. It changes as the situations change. It changes with time.

I wonder how our own concepts of beauty, that is our human race's concepts of beauty, will change as time goes by.

Let's suppose that a famous young woman of our time, Miss United States, if you like,

is awakened in her sleep by an alien presence.

A strange force she feels but cannot see.

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