title: The Cyborg and the Sorcerers
author:  Lawrence Watt-Evans 
description: The cyborg code-named "Slant" was sent out as an Independent Reconnaissance Unit during an interstellar war between Earth and its colonies. The fighting ended three hundred years ago, but Slant's computer does not admit this -- he is compelled to carry on as if the war were still raging.<br /><br />Then he comes across a planet where his sensors register ''gravitational anomalies.'' The computer interprets these as enemy weapons research.<br /><br />The local inhabitants call the anomalies ''magic.''
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  THE CYBORG AND THE SORCERERS
  
  
  Copyright © 1982 by Lawrence Watt-Evans
  
  
  ebook ver. 1.0
  
  
  _Dedicated to my father, Gordon Goodwin Evans_
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter One
  
  
  HE LAY BACK ON THE ACCELERATION COUCH AND WONDERED idly whether he had been
  officially decommissioned, and whether anybody left alive had the authority to
  decommission him.
  
  
  He had no idea, and there was no way he could find out. He had been under
  total communications silence when the D-series destroyed Old Earth's
  military—and probably its civilization as well—and since then, of course,
  there had been no signal at all from his home base on Mars. There could be
  little doubt that his superiors were all long dead; if the war hadn't killed
  them, the passage of time would have. The fourteen years of subjective time he
  had spent in space worked out to about three hundred years of outside tune,
  and he doubted very much that anyone on Old Earth had been making
  breakthroughs in geriatrics after the war was lost.
  
  
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