Kelvin R. Throop

Kelvin R. Throop

Kelvin R. Throop is a fictional character and collective pseudonym created by R. A. J. Philips in a story which appeared in "Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact" magazine in July 1964. With the encouragement of editor John W. Campbell, Throop subsequently figured in additional stories by other authors. The archetypal Throop story finds him within a large bureaucracy which, solely by his acid-penned memos, he causes to self-destruct, whereupon he disappears until the next story. In mid-December 1984, Analog published a special Kelvin Throop humor edition. Numerous humorous epigrams attributed to Throop were published in Analog over a period of decades.

External links

* [http://corry.ws/CorryBook-62.htm#throop Kelvin Throop's Dictionary of Politically Correct Usage]
* [http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/section2_38_6.html The Entire Prospectus]


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