Double StarOne minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians was at stake -- failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. And Smythe's own life was on the line -- for if he wasn't assassinated, there was always the possibility that he might be trapped in his new role forever! Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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... thing , making use of É equals MC squared , or is it M equals EC squared ? You know the thing Einstein invented . Dak did his best to explain it all to me , and no doubt it is very interesting to those who care for such things . But I ...
... thing , making use of É equals MC squared , or is it M equals EC squared ? You know the thing Einstein invented . Dak did his best to explain it all to me , and no doubt it is very interesting to those who care for such things . But I ...
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... thing operates on a pressure difference . Fortunately the pilot equalized to Mars - surface pressure once we all had our masks on , which gave me twenty minutes or so to get used to it . But for a few moments I thought the jig was up ...
... thing operates on a pressure difference . Fortunately the pilot equalized to Mars - surface pressure once we all had our masks on , which gave me twenty minutes or so to get used to it . But for a few moments I thought the jig was up ...
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... thing Bonforte was pledged to remove ; it gained us votes on Venus ; we did not know yet how many votes it would lose us on Earth . Since the nests sent only observers to the Assembly the only vote we worried about on Mars was the Human ...
... thing Bonforte was pledged to remove ; it gained us votes on Venus ; we did not know yet how many votes it would lose us on Earth . Since the nests sent only observers to the Assembly the only vote we worried about on Mars was the Human ...
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