Marian writes: <In Space Fall, Vila introduces Avon to Blake as the number two man in all the Federated worlds when it comes to computers. To the inevitable question who the number one is, Vila jokes: "Well, the man who caught him, of course.">

Which of course begs the question, how does one tell who is first, second, ninth, thirty-first etc ... it's not exactly like the Olympics, you know:-)

Vila's 'number two' is just a colourful way of saying Avon is *one* of the top computer people in the Federation.

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