Relic Radio

This is Relic Radio, sci-fi, old- places, and this is Walter O'Keefe.

Nightline, your open door to people and places, and this is Walter O'Keepe. Nightline invite you to listen in on NBC's award-winning science fiction series X-Minus One.

Now escape to a world of the future.

Countdown for blast off.

X minus five, four, three, two, X minus one, fire. From the far

from the far horizons of the unknown

come tales of new dimensions in time and space.

These are stories of the future.

Adventures in which you'll live in a million could

be years on a thousand maybe worlds. The national broadcasting company, in cooperation with

Galaxy's Science Fiction magazine, presents... X minus one... Minus one.

Tonight,

Selana by James E. Gunn.

But first, hear this.

The But first, hear this. Now, X minus one.

Our story, Salana, by James E. Gunn.

My name is Norman Blake, statistician first class. At 2.30 p.m.

on Monday, October 21st, in the year 2005, I became a deviant. I left my job an hour early.

To deviate from the norm was unheard of in a perfectly adjusted society such as ours.

Thanks to the great psychologist, Kinder, we had a society where everybody's job suited as talents and needs,

where children were raised scientifically, and where everyone lived happily on an even keel instead of swinging back and forth from gloom to ecstasy.

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