I still find his books boring, overlong and tedious. His researchers gather the facts and figure and he simply uses them. I believe that he does not make predictions he simply publicises other peoples ideas and occasionally they come true. Your example of the concept of communications satellites was certainly not his. He was merely the first to publish an idea which had been kicking around the Air Ministry for some time where people were trying to work out how to "bounce" a radio/radar signal further than was possible at the time. One idea was to mount mirrors on high mountains, another was to bounce the signals off of "something in orbit", tethered balloons with long enough cables to reach "space" was the original concept.
I am told that there were those who believed that he should have been prosecuted for revealing what at the time was classified information.
Sorry you will not convince me that he has written anything I should read.
I will grant that he has always been a good self publicist.
