"There are incredible things still undiscovered; most of the
important installations were built in duplicate as a precaution
against space attack. I know where all of them are.
"But I could find nothing, not one single word, about any giant
strategic planning computer called Merlin! -- Is there really a
Merlin?"
That's what Conn Maxwell asked, and the question irked those who
heard it. Of course it did! Merlin meant everything to the folks on
the planet Poictesme: power, pleasures, and profits unlimited.
But the leading men of the planet didn't believe him. They
couldn't! The search for Merlin had become their abiding
obsession.
Everybody believed that when this super-gigantic computer was
located amid the mountains of surplus equipment that was the
planet's sole source of revenue, it would mean Utopia for
everyone.
Conn Maxwell knew different. He had studied the records on Earth
and he thought he knew the true facts about this cosmic computer.
To tell them would be to panic, so instead he set about a new
search in his own way -- with startling results.
*
H. Beam Piper, author of "Space Viking" and "Little Fuzzy," was
rather enigmatic where his personal statistics were concerned (or
so the original blurb to this novel said). He lived in
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, it said, and also that he was an expert
on the history and use of hand weapons. When the book was
published, he had been writing and selling science fiction for many
years to the leading magazines, and that he was highly rated among
readers for his skill and imagination. He had published several
novels, mostly SF, but also including mysteries and juveniles. But
that blurb was written just before he tookhis own life in the noise
and nonsense that come out of divorce . . . sigh. Some things
happen so large upon our lives that they seem to blot out all that
goes before . . .
General
| Imprint: |
Aegypan
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
March 2007 |
| First published: |
March 2007 |
| Authors: |
H.Beam Piper
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
|
| Pages: |
160 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-60312-876-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Science fiction
|
| LSN: |
1-60312-876-X |
| Barcode: |
9781603128766 |
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