Double StarThe story revolves around Lawrence Smith, also known as "Lorenzo the Great", a down-and-out actor wasting the remainder of his life in bars. When he encounters a space-pilot who offers him a drink, before he knows what is going on, he is on Mars involved in a deep conspiracy with global consequences. He is given a mission where failure would not only mean his own death, it would almost certainly mean an all-out planetary war. |
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Robert Anson Heinlein. Mr. Commissioner Boothroyd was a Humanity Party ap- pointee , of course , as were all of his staff except for civil service technical employees . But Dak had told me that it was at least sixty - forty that Boothroyd ...
Robert Anson Heinlein. Mr. Commissioner Boothroyd was a Humanity Party ap- pointee , of course , as were all of his staff except for civil service technical employees . But Dak had told me that it was at least sixty - forty that Boothroyd ...
Page 78
... Boothroyd had children and that one of them was about this age and sex ; I did not know - perhaps Rog and Penny did not know- whether or not I had ever met her . Boothroyd himself saved me . " You haven't met my daugh- ter Deirdre , I ...
... Boothroyd had children and that one of them was about this age and sex ; I did not know - perhaps Rog and Penny did not know- whether or not I had ever met her . Boothroyd himself saved me . " You haven't met my daugh- ter Deirdre , I ...
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... Boothroyd , I'll speak to him and we can save my pilot a trip out to the field - and save me an hour or more of time ... Boothroyd's number . I will call him . ” This time I put a touch of frost into my voice , the attitude of the busy ...
... Boothroyd , I'll speak to him and we can save my pilot a trip out to the field - and save me an hour or more of time ... Boothroyd's number . I will call him . ” This time I put a touch of frost into my voice , the attitude of the busy ...
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