Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 53 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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, WITHOUT LOVE difference was, and I saw why the New Men behaved as they did. And I knew I'd have to make them see it, too. ‘The work of Team H.E. 135 was, as yet, incomplete. The police quarters in the Palace were bare and func- tional. And bare and func- tional was my request to obtain the services of Tiger. The officer in charge never doubted my authority for one moment. Yes, I was learning from the New Men, with a vengeance. I also demanded the use of an electronic work- shop, and once in there, chased out the guard that - accompanied Tiger. Tiger acted sullen. He saw me marching around a free man, respected and obeyed, while he himself was kept under guard. But he bowed to my new-found power and did as I asked him. First I had him hook my pocket ’corder to a torkle coil so that the ’corder, instead of transcribing, would play recordings into the torkle which would then act as a transmitter. Then he tuned the coil so that its emission would adjust itself automatic- ally and slide unnoticed into the thought stream of any- body in range. Next we made * dubbings of Menilissa’s 33 thoughts and emotions which we took off various of the old transcriptions which. I had brought along with me. , Finally, Tiger handed me the pale blue disc, undistin- guishable from any standard 18 record, and said: ‘There, now what?” I turned my back on him and pretended to study the pin-up girl on a calendar. “You know,” I said, “‘that the order may come at any moment to execute both you and Mattis?” “J didn’t.” Tiger’s voice was pensive. “But I thought it might.” I kept my back turned. “T’ll be having a conference with the Dianotrix tonight. Some time shortly after one a.m., up in her apartments. It'll be a private conference; there’ll be nobody else present. comiclooks.com