THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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isotope-separation plant and a battery of plutonium-breeders; that meant
that Mohammed Matsui and half a dozen other nuclear-power people had to
get into another boat and speed after him to see what he had really
found. As soon as they landed, Rivas took off again to discover a copper
mine and a complex of smelters and processing plants. That took a few
more experts, or reasonable facsimiles, away from Port Carpenter. And
then he found a whole city that manufactured nothing but computers and
robo-controls and things like that.

Conn loaded his whole computer-theory class onto a freight-scow and took
them there. By the time he landed, his father was screening him from
Storisende.

"When are you going to get the ship finished?" he was asking. "Kurt
Fawzi's pestering the daylights out of me. He wants that equipment you
promised him."