THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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cropping up all over the mainland, and on the continent of Acaire to the
north, and another cult, non-religious, was convinced that Merlin was a
living machine, with conscious intelligence of its own and awesome
psi-powers, a sort of super-Golem, which, if found and awakened, would
enslave the whole Galaxy. Fortunately, these two hated each other as
venomously as both did the Cybernarchists, and spent most of their
energies attacking each other's meetings. The news-services were
beginning to publish casualty lists, some heavy enough for outpost
fighting between a couple of regular armies.

One thing, it helped the employment situation. Everybody was hiring
mercenaries.[Pg 139]

"But what," Conn asked, "are the sane people doing?"

"You ought to know," his father told him. "I suspect that you have all
of them on Koshchei now."