Hi David,
I have a question about "SciFi TV set." When I grew up where I lived we called televisions "TV sets", so when I first read that phrase in your poem I first thought of the appliance rather than of a crew making a show. Your context quickly put me straight but I did have a little glitch in my reading that wouldn't have happened with "movie set." That phrase "TV set" is not used widely now for the appliance itself and maybe it was not used over a wide area even when I grew up and perhaps not at all in the UK. The phrase "TV set" having a double meaning referring to the appliance does echo though the idea of the N being inside of a machine, which is useful. My question is do/did Brits call televisions TV sets?
All the best,
Jim
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