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he pulled the T-shirt on. <span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">Listen style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">“Listen to those locusts! Hot one today,

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g:-.1pt">C’mon, let’s watch Mom ‘’n’ Dad mess it up.” And she was

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dad had plugged in. “Harry, you will <i>will</i> blow it up,” Nita’s mother said

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l you. It’s a neat little thing— it has the new foldout screen, a

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.25in">“Great. I think I’ve got enough enough—

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— let me check.”</p>

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    <p class="MsoListBullet2" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in">…And style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in">...And her eye fell on the record album

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le="letter-spacing:-.3pt">first—‘’

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“”</span></p>

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n">The air around them began to sing-the sing—the same note ears sing when they’ve

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etter-spacing:-.55pt">that said employees <!-- small caps -->employees only. Kit put his manual away, a

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her casual, not so much a <span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">relationship style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">sibling relationship as the kind you might have with

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of rage: <i>Why them, why them find and not me!</i> Days later, when the

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pt">and of wizards to guard it, of&nbsp; of “the Billion Homeworlds,” “the h

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keep track of me if I decide to—”</span></h4>

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Dairine. To Nita’s mild relief— because paying for her little si

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Ahnighito meteorite on its low pedestal -- pedestal—thirty-four tons of nickel-iron

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ghtly in the arm. “Come on,” he said said, <span style="letter-spacing:-.25

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rd wall with the sign that said mars <!-- small caps -->mars closed for renovations.</span></

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5pt">computer on, “booted it up”-ready —ready to look for the “Copy” utility i

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eady to accept commands to its “AA,” or

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” or onboard onboard, disk drive and the disk inside i

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1pt; text-indent:.25in">DIR A:, &nbsp;she she typed on the keyboard, and hit t

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  <p class="MsoList2CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in">(d) style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in">(d)&nbsp; Discard in otherspace (nonretrie

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ft:0in;text-indent:.25in"><span style="letter-spacing:.85pt">(f)</span> style="letter-spacing:.85pt">(f)</span>&nbsp; Exit to main menu</p>

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er-spacing:-.55pt">some coffee. &nbsp;“RED FIVE,” she typed.</span></p

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brought up the directory again. assist.com, <!-- small caps -->assist.com, said the first entry. Maybe that

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pacing:-.85pt">(3a) Duplication—COPY&nbsp;</span></p>COPY</span></p>

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indent:.25in">Dairine knew that aerographers areographers used some kind of latitude-longi

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    <p class="MsoListBullet2" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in">…and style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:.25in">...and the wizardry let her go. Dairine

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it, examining the program menus ^with with great care. In particular she sp

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test worked: she sent the copy home</span></p>home.</span></p>

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into the “Travel” utility, and wit with <span style="letter-spacing:-.15

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on Olympus Mons but rocks, and dry- <span dry-<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">ice

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regular manuals. You’re offered it...or it... or you <span style="letter-spacing:

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ou know the way you normally do spell:</span> spells?</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1

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5pt">we tell them, I think. How ‘’bout it, partner?” He looked ove

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wn in Freeport, what’s its name— Hi Harry. Carl Romeo.... Nothing

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le the justification with Irina later later. Translate.”</p>

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it to read it. “ ‘Oath accepted—‘’

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“”</p>

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>They all looked at the screen. <span <!-- small caps --><span style="letter-spacing: -.85pt">u

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ght have to be gone for quite a while while—and I can’t sell you two a time

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Picchu. “What do They need her for?</p>for?”</p>

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nd sickness were apparently the cause result of suddenly, and for the first t

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n style="letter-spacing: -.2pt">‘’n’ Dad won’t notice</span></i><s

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h been gravity-slung off toward alpha Alpha Centauri and were plunging towar

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say to aliens suddenly sounded silly—</span>Finally silly.</span> Finally she wound up clearing her throat

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m—they were walking pretty fast—”“I’m sorry to interrupt you, I’m

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> unable to translate something— “and of course waste disposal. Y

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brought Dairine’s chin up. “Let ‘’em try,” she said. “The argument

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ever have time for a second</i>— It</span> leapt at her, but she

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something crunch. <i>Oh, please don don’t let it be the plastic!</i> she

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ita’s manual reoccurred to her: Old old Powers, not friendly to what liv

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e wondered for a second whether ‘’Shash Jackson was still her best

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nes, need help in bending space—</span> some </span>some specific kind of matter placed i

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ly. She can’t. She’s on Ordeal, Mums: Mom: it changes you. That’s what it’s

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that they had a right to know. “Mums, Mom, Dad, look. We might not be able

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as few, even wizards, ever see one</span> <span one</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt">—

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there was no escaping the GIGO principle- principle—“garbage in, garbage out,” as th

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m it had been working on. “Link established “established,” said the computer in absolute c

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Some 92 % of the layers</span> consilt consilt<!-- all the letter l's inserted in these words should clearly be 1's --> of chemically pure sillcol,! pre

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, squinting at them in the pale Earth-</span>light, Earth</span>light, while rock sang softly in the ea

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f everything, including herself—</span> friendless, </span>friendless, quiet and smart but with no one

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ttom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-indent:.25in"><i>…And text-indent:.25in"><i>...And if she can do that,</i> Nita tho

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spot on</span> the floor: “it’s direct <!-- missing "a" ? -->direct transit to Holding. Emissary, I’

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looked grim. “And when we find ‘’em—”</p>

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an style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">‘’em and not feel guilty.”</span><

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, was ambivalent about Its role— after all that, surely one might

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nd someone coming up to the car—” “Neets,” Kit said,</span> <span s

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">. She gulped. Physical forces— She started</span> reciting in t

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ere open, the world was so full or</span> of</span> afterimages. But the purple curt

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y now. There was no sign of any moonlet</span> <span moonlet</span><span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">—on

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t: she patted the glassy ground—”“our friend here?”</p>

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ing was happening to the light: It it wavered oddly, dimming from the

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le="letter-spacing:-.1pt">voice cried’ cried out at you in terror a thousand

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fell abruptly as they turned to he her. <span style="letter-spacing:-.2p

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25in">“So we will for the other fastlife,quicklife,” said Logo. “The ‘dumb machines

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hope It <i>does</i> kill me. It’d, d be better than throwing up again

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t laughed again. <i>A pity they didn ‘didn’t send someone more</i></span> <

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al matter to play with. They’ll bum burn themselves with it, as always. A

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ings she wants to without being hassled! hassled; beating her fists against the wa

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weakly, <i>good baby. You tell ‘’em</i>.</span></p>

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less millennia now the Lone One &nbsp;had had gone from place to place and spe

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it stared at the new apparition &nbsp;</span><span </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">wit