THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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(Merlin-is-the-Golem), with heavy losses and claims of victory on both
sides. President Vyckhoven proclaimed planet-wide martial law, and then
discovered that he had nothing to enforce it with.

Luther Chen-Wong screened him from Port Carpenter. His voice was almost
inaudibly low at first.

"Conn, I just had a call from Jerry and Clyde. I think we can knock off
work on that ship we're building now. We won't need it."

"Have they found a ship?" If they had, it would be the first one anybody
had found. "Where?"[Pg 141]

"They haven't found /a/ ship, Conn; they've found all of them. All the
ships in the Alpha System except the /Harriet Barne/ and the two they're
building at Storisende. The place is marked on the map as Sickle
Mountain Naval Observatory. It's just a bitty little dot, but the map