THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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how he was going to be able to take charge here.

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"You haven't found any passage leading into it?" he asked, when they
were gathered in Fawzi's?formerly Foxx Travis's?office.

"Nifflheim, no! If we had, we'd be inside now." Tom Brangwyn swore. "And
we've been all over the ceiling in here, and we can't find anything but
vitrified rock and then the collapsium shielding."

"Sure. There are collapsium-cutters, at Port Carpenter, on Koshchei.
They do it with cosmic rays."

"But collapsium will stop cosmic rays," Zareff objected.

"Stop them from penetrating, yes. A collapsium-cutter doesn't penetrate;