Exion

For half an hour they were all at ease, Molly as friendly and affectionate as ever in the old days on Exion Four, the boy beside himself with pleasure at pleasing Molly, even the Reefer almost jolly.

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He entered the air space of Exion Four without official clearance, and the robot guardians are after him.

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A tight constriction in his chest relaxed when he found the galaxies-a fuzzy patch of pale light, bitten off by the southward cliffs, fainter than the dimmest planet of Exion.

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"I was in transflection transit from Exion Four to Earth," Quamodian said.

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She knew that little Andy Quam had never been an actual member of the Exion research staff, but just a sort of guinea pig, Scott had brought him along to test a hunch that his odd location sense was a transcience effect, but dropped him from the project when the rogue star research became more exciting ...

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He left Exion four years ago on a research expedition from which he did not return.

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I had to challenge the best brains from all the galaxies, gathered here at Exion. 1 had to beat the robots, all linked together in their transflex webs, sharing memory banks and programs that united them into a single monstrous mind.

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Quamodian had often listened to debates about that riddle, which was among the basic research problems of Exion Station.

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In Galaxy 5, in the far worlds where most citizens were nonhuman and had no interest at all in his views, in school where everyone nominally, at least, shared the same services on Starday, even among the dedicated scientists of Exion Four, there had been either no dissent or no interest at all.

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A girl loved by many a being on the planets of Exion, where they first met-even though they both had come from Earth.

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