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    Sight Gag
    Sight Gag
    Sight Gag
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    Sight Gag

    By Laurence M. Janifer and John Schoenherr

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Sight Gag
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    Laurence M. Janifer

    Laurence M. Janifer (born Laurence M. Harris; March 17, 1933 - July 10, 2002) was an American science fiction author, with a career spanning over 50 years. Janifer was born in Brooklyn, New York with the surname of Harris, but in 1963 took the original surname of his Polish grandfather. Many of his early stories appeared under the "Larry M. Harris" byline.

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      Sight Gag - Laurence M. Janifer

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sight Gag, by Laurence Mark Janifer

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      Title: Sight Gag

      Author: Laurence Mark Janifer

      Illustrator: Schoenherr

      Release Date: October 19, 2009 [EBook #30288]

      Language: English

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      This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction May 1962. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      SIGHT GAG

      BY LARRY M. HARRIS

      Intelligence is a great help in the evolution-by-survival—but intelligence without muscle is even less useful than muscle without brains. But it's so easy to forget that muscle—plain physical force—is important, too!

      ILLUSTRATED BY SCHOENHERR

      ownstairs, the hotel register told Fredericks that Mr. John P. Jones was occupying Room 1014. But Fredericks didn't believe the register. He knew better than that. Wherever his man was, he wasn't in Room 1014. And whoever he was, his real name certainly wasn't John P. Jones. P for Paul, Fredericks muttered to himself. Oh, the helpful superman, the man who knows better, the man who does better.

      Fredericks had first known of him as FBI Operative 71-054P, under the name of William K. Brady. And what does the K stand for? Fredericks muttered, remembering. Killer? Brady wouldn't be the man's real name, either. FBI Operatives had as many names as they had jobs, that much was elementary. Particularly operatives like Jones-Brady-X. Special talents, Fredericks muttered. Psi powers,

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