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Oh, Mind web.

Mind web. Mindwebs.

Welcome to a half hour of mind webs.

Short stories from the worlds of speculative fiction.

The World's of Speculative Fiction. No. The This is Michael Hanson.

The Mind Web story this evening is by William Spencer,

his tale called The Eternal Machines,

from new writings in SF2,

edited by John Carnell and published by Bannon, copyright 1964.

Roscoe checked the scope again.

The big shuttle ship was arcing and smoothly on a re-entry curve.

The speck of light on the screen indicating her position was crossing the hairlines of range and altitude at pre-programmed intervals.

It was going to be a routine landing.

The process of landing was completely automated.

There was really nothing for Roscoe to do.

He had seen too many of these unmanned shuttle ships come shimmering in for landing on the dusty gray surface of the planet,

watched them, settling on a cone of flame,

blistering down through unsteady waves of boiling atmosphere.

Observed the trellis of spidery legs extending on pneumatic joints, the pads at their extremities feeling for a firm purchase on the treacherously hot slag.

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