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Title: Man of Many Minds

Author: E. Everett Evans

Release Date: October 29, 2006 [EBook #19660]

Language: English

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MAN OF MANY MINDS

by E. EVERETT EVANS

PYRAMID BOOKS, 444 Madison Avenue, New York 22, New York

A Pyramid Book, published by arrangement with Fantasy Press

Pyramid Books edition: November, 1959

Copyright, (c) 1953, by E. Everett Evans
All Rights Reserved

_Printed in the United States of America_

_This book is fiction. No resemblance is intended between any character
herein and any person, living or dead; any such resemblance is purely
coincidental._

* * * * *

To Thelma, a wedding anniversary present

* * * * *

GALAXY IN DANGER!

Somewhere, somehow, the first moves have been made--the pattern is
beginning to emerge. Someone--or something--is on the way to supreme
power over all the planets held by Man.

And the Inter-stellar Corps is helpless to meet the threat--no normal
man can hope to penetrate the conspiracy.

But--the Corps has a man who isn't normal, a man with a very strange
weapon...

..._his mind_.

Exciting! Strange! Extraordinary! One of the most unusual science
fiction adventures ever published.

Chapter 1

Cadet George Hanlon stood stiffly at attention. But as the long, long
minutes dragged on and on, he found his hands, his spine and his
forehead cold with the sweat of fear. He tried manfully to keep his eyes
fixed steadily on that emotionless face before him, but found it almost
impossible to do so.

Tension grew and grew and grew in the room until it seemed the very
walls must bulge, or the windows burst to relieve the pressure. The
cadet felt he could not stand another minute of it without screaming.
Why didn't that monster say something? What kind of torture was this,
anyway? And why was he here in the first place? He couldn't thi