Transcriber’s Note:
This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction May 1963. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
THE DUELING MACHINE
The trouble with great ideas is that someone is sure to expend enormous effort and ingenuity figuring out how to louse them up.
by BEN BOVA and MYRON R. LEWIS
ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN SCHOENHERR
Dulaq rode the slide to the upper pedestrian level, stepped off and walked over to the railing. The city stretched out all around him—broad avenues thronged with busy people, pedestrian walks, vehicle thoroughfares, aircars gliding between the gleaming, towering buildings.
And somewhere in this vast city was the man he must kill. The man who would kill him, perhaps.