iving in a town
built on a table top."

VI

It was the morning of June 15th, and Guy Burckhardt woke up screaming
out of a dream.

It had been a monstrous and incomprehensible dream, of explosions and
shadowy figures that were not men and terror beyond words.

He shuddered and opened his eyes.

Outside his bedroom window, a hugely amplified voice was howling.

Burckhardt stumbled over to the window and stared outside. There was
an out-of-season chill to the air, more like October than June; but
the scent was normal enough--except for the sound-truck that squatted
at curbside halfway down the block. Its speaker horns blared:

"Are you a coward? Are you a fool? Are you going to let crooked
politicians steal the country from you? NO! Are you going to put up
with four more years of graft and crime? NO! Are you going to vote
straight Federal Party all up and down the ballot? YES! _You just bet
you are!_"

Sometimes he screams, sometimes he wheedles, threatens, begs, cajoles ...
but his voice goes on and on through one June 15th after another.

--FREDERIK POHL

[Illustration]

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