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ECLIPSE                                                  7
         ADUMB LINX MEETS AUNTY SCIENCE

   "Oh, woudnt I?" The repelling robotoid gloated. "What woud U say, Mr Nutzan Blots, if I told U I had foreseen your reluctance to cooperate? Your far-better half is here now!" & at that he crost to the refrigerator & withdrew the frozen form of Kuph Linx.
   Bfor Adumb, now beside himself, coud get back to himself, the sub-robot or human being, produced a cigaret-liter, flickt it into flame & applyd the heat to the feet of the unconscious Kuph. Abruptly there was the odor of burning rubber in the air. Kuph's eyes opend as her metal appendages commenced to glow a pomegranate red. Kuph had muted her vox-box but Adumb nue she was suffering intensely. Still, his heart was cold as steel (which, of corse, was only natural). But when the-- the--man put the heat to her wrist, it was too much for the horrifyd husband. He nue Kuph coud take it on the cuff, but enuf was enuf, so he shouted,
   "Stop!"
   "ah, the mechano set comes to its senses?"
   "No--I can't help U--but I will try to persuade Dr Rednib."
   The creature that was a blasfemy of all that was robotic, considered a moment. "Alrite, let us see if Hisnibs can be persuaded."
   "Good Rob, Doc!" the frantic Adumb plead, "U've got to do this for me--for us!"
   A crafty lite might have entrd the doctor's eyes, had not the flesh-made Frankenstein blinded him. He ansrd, "Very well, I'll try. Come, we shall begin at once." Hoping the human coud not read thots, he surreptitiously set the telepathicontrol, flasht Adumb the message: "Courage! We will outwit this monster & rid the world of it yet!"
   While he ostensibly set about to build a female flesh-body for the human to claim as bride, in reality he was creating voracious synthetic amoeba.
   At this point your author takes U into his confidence & tells U that, since he isnt much of a story-teller anyway, which is why he never has turned pro, he's gonna skip the details & give U the quick conclusion:
   The amoeba engulfs the human monster, thus removing the nasty villain from the plot; but then catastrofe, as the amoeba continues to grow! Being unable to see, & with a nervous assistant, Dr von Rednib somehow must have mis-mixt the formula, so that the Giant Amoeba now omnivorously consumes anything (even fanmags). Nor fire nor flood nor acid, nor gas nor electricity nor bullets nor germs will stop it; all, the Damn Thing (copyrite, Bruce Yerke) receives with equal relish!
   In desperation, Dr von RTednib decides on a desperate measure. It means no more than one chance in a million, but it must be taken: He will destroy it with 8u2...the secret of atomic power!
   But a progressive chain reaction cycle-
          (concluded on 11)

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ECLIPSE 7 ADUMB LINX MEETS AUNTY SCIENCE "Oh, woudnt I?" The repelling robotoid gloated. "What woud U say, Mr Nutzan Blots, if I told U I had foreseen your reluctance to cooperate? Your far-better half is here now!" & at that he crost to the refrigerator & withdrew the frozen form of Kuph Linx. Bfor Adumb, now beside himself, coud get back to himself, the sub-robot or human being, produced a cigaret-liter, flickt it into flame & applyd the heat to the feet of the unconscious Kuph. Abruptly there was the odor of burning rubber in the air. Kuph's eyes opend as her metal appendages commenced to glow a pomegranate red. Kuph had muted her vox-box but Adumb nue she was suffering intensely. Still, his heart was cold as steel (which, of corse, was only natural). But when the-- the--man put the heat to her wrist, it was too much for the horrifyd husband. He nue Kuph coud take it on the cuff, but enuf was enuf, so he shouted, "Stop!" "ah, the mechano set comes to its senses?" "No--I can't help U--but I will try to persuade Dr Rednib." The creature that was a blasfemy of all that was robotic, considered a moment. "Alrite, let us see if Hisnibs can be persuaded." "Good Rob, Doc!" the frantic Adumb plead, "U've got to do this for me--for us!" A crafty lite might have entrd the doctor's eyes, had not the flesh-made Frankenstein blinded him. He ansrd, "Very well, I'll try. Come, we shall begin at once." Hoping the human coud not read thots, he surreptitiously set the telepathicontrol, flasht Adumb the message: "Courage! We will outwit this monster & rid the world of it yet!" While he ostensibly set about to build a female flesh-body for the human to claim as bride, in reality he was creating voracious synthetic amoeba. At this point your author takes U into his confidence & tells U that, since he isnt much of a story-teller anyway, which is why he never has turned pro, he's gonna skip the details & give U the quick conclusion: The amoeba engulfs the human monster, thus removing the nasty villain from the plot; but then catastrofe, as the amoeba continues to grow! Being unable to see, & with a nervous assistant, Dr von Rednib somehow must have mis-mixt the formula, so that the Giant Amoeba now omnivorously consumes anything (even fanmags). Nor fire nor flood nor acid, nor gas nor electricity nor bullets nor germs will stop it; all, the Damn Thing (copyrite, Bruce Yerke) receives with equal relish! In desperation, Dr von RTednib decides on a desperate measure. It means no more than one chance in a million, but it must be taken: He will destroy it with 8u2...the secret of atomic power! But a progressive chain reaction cycle- (concluded on 11)