The Cosmic Computer Author:H. Beam Piper ISBN on cover is 0441117576 price 1.95 original title in 1963 (copyright date)was Junkyard Planet. Cover shows space suited soldiers firing weapons. — Merlin - the magical name that conjured up visions of unlimited knowledge and power. — Merlin- the god-like, infallible computer that could mean the salvation of a war torn human race. But did such ... more »a fantastic cybernetic marvel really exist?
Was Merlin just another legend of the spaceways, as most people believed? Or was it really hidden somewhere on the colony planet, Poictesme?« less