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were being equipped with super~Ber.-
genholms and with driving p_roject?rs.
The negasphere, the mo_st mcred1ble
menace to naviaation which had ever
existed in space~ was being patrolled by
a cordon of guard ships. .
!\ d all this activity cente1·ed 111 one
va~/~rn-lding and culminated in <:>ne man
P ·t \\cJmiral I-Jaynes. Galacllc coun-
- 0 1 , . f ff And H aynes
cilor and ch1ef o sta . b -e he
could not get enough to eat tcau::,
. , , set o[ teeth .
wa:,; cuttmg a nc\\ . f them
H e cut them, all thirty-two o t .
rfectly even °
His new limbs_ grew pe '-d,at had
. H air arew upon "
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the na1 s. ~ . . anse of pate.
for years been a sh111111g e:'p . Id
] acy's rehef, it was o
But, much to ~ ·I . ·!1 covered the new
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1111 JS. ' . the alossiness o
that was dulhng cl "'His bifocal!),
I ,ea .
II ,• bal<l old still necessary i ·r I ,e
- ayne::,
unchanged, were_. o- clearly. near or far.
were to see an~11h1nf I animals aged and
.. O t ff experimen a I · d a ra-
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died nonua Y, : eginnin« to won-
• J ··but I wa::, 1 J b
c10u~ y. re ·uvenated you two, or
der 1f we had J .··u, eternal life
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new parts have the
per 1aps en dowed you " ·
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Glad to se~ that t ,e the rest of you-
same 1)hys1cal~t 1re :.~1barrassing to have
it would be 1111 ( Y to aet rid of
to kill two G ray L ens111en b
them." ·,, en as fHnny as a n1b-
l,You arens ev ' " II
. h ,, 1-l aynes grunted. __ · v\ . 1en
ber ci ufc '. to aive young h .111111s011
are you gpmg "' 1· ti t
·I·.? Don't you rea 1ze
the ,,·01 ,::; · 1a we
need him ?" now-just as soon as we
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o-ive you anc 1
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a1ninations. T l t isn 't necessary- my
··]3ah ! ,a
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A t the first faint touch of Kim's ~ind, th~. E icp bral11 s . t,at )'Ou th111k, but what do
reacted. T entacles' like steel whips lashed out t9 bind ··T hat s w . .
Primary projectors were 111ade to. take about bra111s? Worse) will
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and hold him, to drag him into the frowning fort_rf!ss...:..._ 1 OU know <
even higher loads, for longer t nnes. Y 1 1 shape your mmt - 1 any-
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tell us \A' ia
New and heavier Q-type helices were .. ,,
had previously amassed an almost in- Weapons, suppos·e~ly of "irresistible
exhaustible supply of wealth, for its "re- power, were made even q:iore powerful. designeEl and built. Larger and more JS ~l~l~e Velantian put both Ilayn_es and
destructive duodec bombs were hurl_ed hendorfi through a gruelmg e:x-
serves of expe-n<lible credit" were nm- Screens already " impe-nefrable" were von Bo . • . <l
against already ruined, . torn,_ and quiv- · ,ation find mg t ,at t 1eir min s hau
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uing like water. stiffened into even greater stubbQrnness. a1n11 ,
eriilg test planets. Unmhab1te<l worlds
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