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 \nROOVFORVANBY GORDON R.DICKSON  \n2  \n# WHOAM I?\n\nWHATAM I?  \nThrough countless accidents that wouldhave killed another man,Paul had survived.His intuition told him it was more thanluck—but his questioning brought forthno answers,only more questions.  \nWas he a super being,immune to physical laws?Was he dead and living in another man's body?Had he been given thismysterious power of survival for a purpose?  \nHis journey toward understanding takeshim through many strange byways—aswell as the secret labyrinths of his ownidentity.With each mystery unraveled hefaces anew the problem:Who are myfriends,who are my enemies—who in thisuniverse can I trust,when I don't evenknow if I belong in it?  \n# NO\n\nROOMRORVAN  \n(Original title:Necromancer)  \nGORDON R.DICKSON  \nA MACFADDEN BOOK  \n里  \n# THIS BOOK IS THE COMPLETE TEXTOF THE HARDCOVER EDITION\n\nA MACFADDEN BOOK  \nFirst printing………_    September,1963Second printing _       _December,1966  \nMACFADDEN BOOKS are published byMACFADDEN-BARTELL CORPORATION205 East 42nd Street,New York,New York,10017  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Number:62-11444  \nCopyright,⑥,1962,by Gordon R.Dickson.All rights reserved.Published by arrangement with Doubleday 8 Company,Inc.Printed in the U.S.A.  \n/  \n# Book One:ISOLATE\n\nAnd now,through double glass,I seeMy brother's image,darklingly.Now,aid us,Thor,who prisoners be.Come—hammer,Lord!And set us free.  \nTHE ENCHANTED ToWER  \n# Chapter 1\n\nThe mine,generally speaking,was automatic.It con-sisted of some hundred and eighty million dollars'worthof equipment,spread out through three and a half cubicmiles of gold-ore-bearing rock—granite and quartz—allcontrolled by the single console where the shift engineeron duty sat.  \nLike some ponderous,many-purposed organism,themine walked in the layered rock.On various levels itgnawed out the gold-bearing ore,ground it up to pebble-sized chunks,and sent it by the carload up six hundredfeet or more to the open air and the equipment above.As the mine machinery moved,it created and abandonedsurface shafts,elevator tubes,new exploratory levels andstopes;and extended the vast central cavern throughwhich the heavier machinery and its controlling consoleslid with the work in progress,laying down rails beforeand taking them up behind.  \nThe single engineer on shift at the time controlled allthis.And a touch of megalomania did him no harm on thejob.He was seated before the control panels of the  \nconsole like the identity before the brain.His job was thejob of ultimate control.Logical decision,and the factson which to base decision were supplied by the computerelement in the equipment.The logically optimum answerwas available at the touch of a button.But it had beendiscovered that,like the process of living itself,therewas more to modern mining than logic.  \nThe best engineers had feel.It was a sensitivity bornof experience,of talent,and even of something like love,with which they commanded,not only the mountains,but the machine they rode and directed.  \nNow this too was added to the list of man's endeavorsfor which some special talent was needed.Less than tenper cent of the young mining engineers graduating everyyear turned out to have the necessary extra ability tobecome one with the titan they directed.Even in thetwenty-first century's overcrowded employment marts,mines were continually on the hunt for more shift engi-neers.Even four hours at a time,and even for the talentedten per cent,was a long time to be the faultless god inthe machine.And the machinery never rested.  \nSix hundred feet overhead of the man at the console,Paul Formain,on his first morning at Malabar Mine,stepped from his small individual quarters of white bubbleplastic,and saw the mountains  \nAnd suddenly,there it was again,as it had been timeand again since his boating accident of five years before,and had been more recently,lately.  \nBut it was not now","cbCaijaPFj5hETkJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijaPFj5hETkJ","pdf",7270016,164,"English","# WHO AM I?\n# NO\n# THIS BOOK IS THE COMPLETE TEXT OF THE HARDCOVER EDITION\n# Book One: ISOLATE\n## Chapter 1","[{\"question\":\"What central mystery drives Paul in the novel’s opening?\",\"answer\":\"Paul survives countless accidents that should have killed him, and he cannot find answers—only more questions—about what his survival power means and why he has it.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Paul’s struggle with identity and trust develop?\",\"answer\":\"As he journeys to understand his condition, he faces recurring problems about who to trust, including uncertainty about whether he belongs in the universe.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the mine setting introduced in Chapter 1?\",\"answer\":\"Malabar Mine is described as an automatic, console-controlled operation with vast machinery that extracts gold-bearing ore, moves it through processing, and expands through ongoing excavation and infrastructure changes.\"}]","Necromancer - Book One - Isolate | PDF",1790624813,253]