THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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The people who had grown richest out of the War had[Pg 9] followed,
taking their riches with them. For the next forty years, those who
remained had been living on leavings. On Terra, Conn had told his
friends that his father was a prospector, leaving them to interpret that
as one who searched, say, for uranium. Rodney Maxwell found quite a bit
of uranium, but he got it by taking apart the warheads of missiles.

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Now he was looking down on the granite spines of the Calder Range; ahead
the misty Gordon Valley sloped and widened to the north. Twenty minutes
to Litchfield, now. He still didn't know what he was going to tell the
people who would be waiting for him. No; he knew that; he just didn't
know how. The ship swept on, ten miles a minute, tearing through thin
puffs of cloud. Ten minutes. The Big Bend was glistening redly in the
sunlit haze, but Litchfield was still hidden inside its curve. Six.
Four. The /Countess Dorothy/ was losing speed and altitude. Now he could