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    Cerebrum
    Cerebrum
    Cerebrum
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    Cerebrum

    By Albert Teichner

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    For thousands of years the big brain served as amaster switchboard for the thoughtsand emotions of humanity. Now the central mind was showing signs of decay... and men went mad.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Classics
    Release dateMar 28, 2014
    ISBN9781609775629
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      Cerebrum - Albert Teichner

      Cerebrum

      By Albert Teichner

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2012 by Start Publishing LLC

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      First Start Publishing eBook edition October 2012

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      ISBN 978-1-60977-562-9

      For thousands of years the big brain served as a master switchboard for the thoughts and emotions of humanity. Now the central mind was showing signs of decay ... and men went mad.

      The trouble began in a seemingly trivial way. Connor had wanted to speak to Rhoda, his wife, wished himself onto a trunk line and then waited. Dallas Shipping here, Mars and points Jupiterward, at your service, said a business-is-business, unwifely voice in his mind.

      I was not calling you, he thought back into the line, now also getting a picture, first flat, then properly 3-D and in color. It was a paraNormally luxurious commercial office.

      I am the receptionist at Dallas Shipping, the woman thought back firmly. You rang and I answered.

      I'm sure I rang right, Connor insisted.

      And I'm sure I know my job, Dallas Shipping answered. I have received as many as five hundred thought messages a day, some of them highly detailed and technical and--

      Forget it, snapped Connor. Let's say I focussed wrong.

      He pulled back and twenty seconds later finally had Rhoda on the line. Queerest thing happened, he projected. I just got a wrong party.

      Nothing queer about it, his wife smiled, springing to warm life on his inner eye. You just weren't concentrating, Connor.

      Don't you hand me that too, he grumbled. "I know I thought on the right line into Central. Haven't I been using the System for sixty years?"

      Exactly--all habit and no attention.

      How smugly soothing she was some days! "I think the trouble's in

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