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acts of minor treason february 2016 home series bibliography schedule contact wednesday february 10 2016 tailings of the golden age 5 the trouble with telstar the trouble with telstar by john berryman appeared in analog june 1963 these space jockeys have their own vocabulary and their own oh so cool way of playing it during the countdown i m pretty familiar with complex components but they were checking of equipment i never heard of we had gyros hell our gyros had gyros and we had tanks and pressures and temperatures and voltages and who stuck john it was all very impressive analog doesn t have a reputation as a hard science magazine for nothing open a copy from the 1960s amidst the stories and john w campbell s angry denunciations of scientific orthodoxy you ll find ads from outfits like republic aviation and general dynamics and allied chemical analog gained a reputation as being filled with stories about engineers solving technical problem because to a great degree that s the audience it was aimed at in the 60s and that s the audience that john berryman s the trouble with telstar was written to appeal to mike seaman has a problem that presumably for once doesn t have anything to do with his name he s one of the top men behind the communication satellites made by communications corporation truly a staggeringly inspired name but i ve seen ones in real life every bit as ridiculous and these satellites are failing in a way that can t be pinned down there s a lot of talk about busted solenoids and backroom back and forths about who s responsible and the story takes its sweet time getting to the point apparently it d be cheaper to send a man because 1960s into orbit to repair the satellites much of the story deals with seaman training for his mission and dealing with friction from the established astronauts who look at him as a jumped up repairman granted they re not wrong he s flying the mission not because he s an ideal astronaut candidate but because he came up with the idea for the orbital repair and his bosses volunteered him life in the private sector sure is grand once in orbit seaman fixes the satellites and there s some brief peril because there s always got to be some kind of peril fortunately with the production of fresh space debris that totally won t come back to haunt anyone ever the day is saved and our hero can claim his reward in the form of his boss s secretary who only dates astronauts if you haven t made at least three orbits she won t even have dinner with you maybe this would be entertaining to an engineer in 1963 who has to deal with crap like this on a regular basis but to a non engineer like myself in 2016 it s just boring i can see why campbell printed it because john w campbell loves him his stories of engineers solving technical problems but that doesn t change the fact that it s aggressively mediocre i mean there wasn t even any quote from it ridiculous enough to stick in my mind for use at the top of this post it s just inert but that didn t keep it from being on the cover of the issue it ran in now to be fair there were some parts in there that struck me as interesting but only in a historical context had i read the story in 1963 they would not have stood out berryman did earn a nod in that he anticipated neutral buoyancy training for evas a couple of years before nasa picked it up seaman is launched to orbit in a dyna soar spaceplane which at the time would have placed the story in the late 1960s in reality the dyna soar program was cancelled six months after the issue disappeared from newsstands so the story has an unintential alternate history vibe to it now berryman s frequent use of telstar as a standard noun for a communications satellite felt like a brush with a parallel dictionary before the terminology of space had settled firmly down into what we have today as well the story is only passively sexist which practically feels like a victory for something printed by john w campbell in 1963 the secretary character has no character is described little beyond small dark intense pert and lively and the punchline of the story is her being dumped by seaman no dame was worth that ride i will note that the john berryman who wrote this is not the john berryman who s listed on wikipedia unless you re a weirdo like me reading old magazines for fun there s no real reason for you to have heard of him the science fictional berryman s career was dominated by short fiction and trailed off shortly after the trouble with telstar was written his last credit is 1986 s the big dish which was also an analog cover story and he died in 1988 if you re really interested you can read the trouble with telstar for free at archive org there s also a kindle edition available on amazon for 5 45 which is utterly ridiculous the entire june 1963 issue of analog cost 0 50 and even with fifty years of inflation factored in that s only 3 91 but unless you have some specific interest in the history of 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