THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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Then he went back to his classroom.

"All right, class dismissed," he said. "You have twenty minutes to get
your bags packed. We're going to work for real, now."

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Airboats and airships flocked to Sickle Mountain; some of them hastened
back to Port Carpenter for loads of food, for there was none in the
storehouses at the embarkation camp. They inspected ship after ship, and
chose two three-hundred-footers. They sent airships and freight-scows to
the dozen-odd cities and industrial centers that had been already
explored, to gather cargo, as far as possible the items in shortest
supply on Poictesme.

"Don't worry about a market smash," his father told him. "We have that
taken care of. Trisystem Investments has just bought up a lot of stock