THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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own, we'd be selling lots of both, and not for Storisende Spaceport
prices, either."

"But don't you think Merlin's important?" Charley Gatworth, who had
overheard him, asked.

"Sure. If we find Merlin, we can run it for President. It would make a
better one than Jake Vyckhoven."

He let it go at that. Plenty of opportunities later to expand the theme.

The gravitation gauge dropped to zero. Now they were in free fall, and
it lasted twice as long as Yves Jacquemont had predicted. There were a
few misadventures, none serious and most of them comic?For example, when
Jerry Rivas opened a bottle of beer, everybody was chasing the amber
globules and catching them in cups, and those who were splashed were
glad it hadn't been hot coffee.