The Trouble with Telstar

John Berryman

The trouble with prophets is that if they're accurate, the news won't do you any good, and if they aren't accurate, they're no good.

John Berryman

Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Analog, January 1961.

John Berryman

ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN SCHOENHERR * * * * * Doc Stone made sure I wouldn't give him the "too busy" routine.

John Berryman

_If it "takes a thief to catch a thief" ...

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.