A small meteor hit the ground right next to the building. One session, Earl asked me outright what I actually did with some of the control circuits we discussed. I had seen that look before – usually in combat veterans. “Let’s begin at the beginning, shall we.”
He looked and sounded just like a college professor about to start a lecture. “Anyway, there I was smack dab in the middle of the Emerald Isle with not a whole lot to do except take temperature and barometric readings a couple of times a day – and there were four of us stationed there to do that. I wanted him to be named after the man who designed and built the great Birr Castle telescope and first saw proof of spiral galaxies. Evidently he must have said something about me to his grandfather, because now the dying doctor was summoning me to his death bed to hear, and perhaps write his story. Tell it so someday on an Irish fen, another Queen Maker can step into our world and
