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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... Expansionist Party . In a manner of speaking , he him- self was the Expansionist Party , not merely its most promi- nent leader but its political philosopher and greatest states- man . Expansionism had hardly been more than a " Manifest ...
... Expansionist Party . In a manner of speaking , he him- self was the Expansionist Party , not merely its most promi- nent leader but its political philosopher and greatest states- man . Expansionism had hardly been more than a " Manifest ...
Page 161
... Expansionist Party was a minority party , being merely the largest fraction of a coalition of several parties held together by the leadership and personality of John Joseph Bonforte , I had to stand in for him and peddle soothing syrup ...
... Expansionist Party was a minority party , being merely the largest fraction of a coalition of several parties held together by the leadership and personality of John Joseph Bonforte , I had to stand in for him and peddle soothing syrup ...
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... Party on Ganymede had swept five out of six districts ; they were part of our coalition , and the Expansionist Party as such did not put up even token candidates . The situation on Venus was more ticklish , with the Venerians split into ...
... Party on Ganymede had swept five out of six districts ; they were part of our coalition , and the Expansionist Party as such did not put up even token candidates . The situation on Venus was more ticklish , with the Venerians split into ...
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