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MAN OF PARTS There wasn't a trace of amnesia or confusion when Major Hugh Savold, of the Fourth Earth Expedition against Vega, opened his eyes in the hospital. He knew exactly who he was, where he was, and how he had gotten there. His name was Gam Nex Biad. He was a native of the planet named Dorfel. He had been killed in a mining accident far underground. The answers were preposterous and they terrified Major Savold. Had he gone insane? He must have, for his arms were pinned tight in a restraining sheet. And his mouth was full of bits of rock. Savold screamed and wrenched around on the flat, comfortable boulder on which he had been nibbling. He spat out the rock fragments that tasted—nutritious. Shaking, Savold recoiled from something even more frightful than the wrong name, wrong birthplace, wrong accident, and shockingly wrong food. A living awl was watching him solicitously. It was as tall as himself, had a pointed spiral drill for a head, three knee-action arms ending in horn spades, two below |
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