The Mechanical Monarch

THE MAN FROM YESTERDAY AND THE MACHINE THAT RULED TOMORROW. He had been the first space-flier but his ship had missed the moon and gone on ... to drift silent, frigid, and forgotten. Centuries later the derelict was found, its pilot defrosted and returned to life. He might have had a hero's welcome on Earth, if there had been room for a hero and for an extra man. But there was neither. The world was a watchwork realm with everything exactly in its place. A perfect thinking machine ran the perfect state. There could be no place for his kind of unpredictable daring. So he had to be eliminated. But between the decision and the action was a gap that cybernetic marvel could not overcome. For this man's personal memories of the past contained the innermost secret of the MECHANICAL MONARCH--and the key to its control.