THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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bad, is down there. That's why I'm here, instead of on Koshchei. I want
to keep people like Fawzi from doing anything foolish with it when they
find it."

"But there /can't/ be a Merlin!"

"I'm afraid there is. Not the sort of a Merlin Fawzi expects to find;
that thing's too small for that. But there's something down there...."

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The question of size bothered him. That drum-shaped superstructure
couldn't even hold the personnel-record machine they had found here, or
the computers at the Storisende Stock Exchange. It could have been an
intelligence-evaluator, or an enemy-intentions predictor, but it seemed
small even for that. It would be something /like/ a computer; that was
as far as he was able to go. And it could be something completely