Pi in the Sky by Frederic Brown:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas

"When sinister influences begin to shuffle the stars around for advertising purposes, brave Roger Phlutter bares his trusty penknife and Dr. Milton Hale dashes off to save the cosmos via taxicab!"


('Pi in the Sky' by Frederick Brown)

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Fixed Star Advertising
In which the positions of the fixed stars are changed to form advertising.

Star-Globe (3D Map)
A celestial star map, done in three dimensions.

 

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