THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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"Conn, I'm scared," his father said. "I'm beginning to think there
really is a Merlin, after all."

"Oh, come off it! I know it's contagious, but I thought you'd been
vaccinated."

"I'm beginning to think so, too," Lucas said. "I don't like it at all."

"You know what that gang who took the /Andromeda/ to Panurge found?"

"They were looking for the plant that fabricated the elements for
Merlin, weren't they?"

"Yes. They found it. My Barton-Massarra operatives got to some of the
crew. This place had been turning out material for a computer of
absolutely unconventional design; the two computermen they had with them
couldn't make head or tail of half of it. And every blueprint, every