Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 56 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION memory back—and quickly.” He raised his hand, stemming Lorens’ questions. “‘No, wait a minute, don’t ask me any- thing else. Just answer me this one question: do you or do you not trust me suffi- ciently to let me help you regain your memory?” Lorens moved his shoulders in a tired shrug. “You’re a doctor. If you think you can do it then I’m quite willing to let you.” He stared hard at the other man. AndrUz stood up, smiling. *‘That’s the spirit. The whole thing won’t take very long— in your case. I simply give you certain drugs and someelectro- therapeutic treatment on the affected areas of your brain. My surgery adjoins this room. When you come out you'll remember who you are and why you are here, and—and you'll realise why it was so important for me to check up on you and establish your identity, since you yourself were unable to do so.” He gestured towards the door that led into the surgery. “Shall we go?” “Hullo. General Lee?’’ 24 “Well? Oh, it’s you, Kris- tofr. Anything new?”’ “ve tracked down the firms that supplied Jaksn with most of his apparatus. About twenty per cent. came from the Central Research Supplies—the normal sort of stuff that any neuro-physicist might be expected to use in research experiments.” **And the rest ?’” “Very clever. He ordered from so many different firms that no one supplier could get any idea of exactly what sort of machine he was con- structing; I mean he’d order component parts from, say, twenty different people, ngne of whom could guess, from the stuff he ordered, what machine he was building or what it would be used for.” “Well, do you know what he was building?” “I think so. I’ve just been through his orders with a couple of men from our laboratory. Jaksnwasworking on a positronic robot brain— among other things.” “What do you mean, ‘among other things’ ?”’ “Just what I say. The other comicloooks.conm