Merlin of the Magnolias

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Merlin McNaughton of Houston spends his days devouring huge amounts of food, and his nights absorbing data about Earth's magnetic energies, including mysterious druidic ley lines; but when financial problems upend his world he gets a job at a blimp base--until his computer program foretells a negative energy that may harm his city and he decides to build a particle accelerator to reverse the event