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The Affair of the Brains, by Anthony Gilmore
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Title: The Affair of the Brains
Author: Anthony Gilmore
Release Date: July 4, 2009 [EBook #29310]
Language: English
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[Illustration: "I do not know you for a liar.... I will enter."]
The Affair of the Brains
A Complete Novelette
CHAPTER I
Off to the Rendezvous
[Illustration: Hawk Carse himself goes to keep Judd the Kite's rendezvous with the sinister genius Ku Sui.]
Though it is seldom nowadays that Earthmen hear mention of Hawk Carse, there are still places in the universe where his name retains all its old magic. These are the lonely outposts of the farthest planets, and here when the outlanders gather to yarn the idle hours away their tales conjure up from the past that raw, lusty period be