THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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THE COSMIC COMPUTER

(Original Title: Junkyard Planet)




    I

Thirty minutes to Litchfield.

Conn Maxwell, at the armor-glass front of the observation deck, watched
the landscape rush out of the horizon and vanish beneath the ship, ten
thousand feet down. He thought he knew how an hourglass must feel with
the sand slowly draining out.

It had been six months to Litchfield when the /Mizar/ lifted out of La