Conn Maxwell comes home to Poictesme, a planet left impoverished when an interstellar war ended and the armies departed, leaving mountains of surplus. Everyone believes he has learned where to find Merlin, the fabled strategic computer said to be hidden there. Conn knows of no such machine, but he decides to use the hunt to put his world back to work.
Shrewd, economic-minded space adventure from a favourite of the Ace paperback era, also published as Junkyard Planet. Download the free EPUB.