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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... Ganymede , that means he will pilot that pot to Ganymede or die trying . He doesn't get fainthearted and try to welsh while the ship is being loaded . You told me you would take this job - no ' ifs ' or ' ands ' or ' buts ' -you took ...
... Ganymede , that means he will pilot that pot to Ganymede or die trying . He doesn't get fainthearted and try to welsh while the ship is being loaded . You told me you would take this job - no ' ifs ' or ' ands ' or ' buts ' -you took ...
Page 177
... 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 dozens ...
... 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 dozens ...
Page 184
... Ganymede I could not see , of course , nor the lonely colony out on far Pluto . " Worlds of Hope , " Bonforte had called them . But he was dead . He was gone . They had taken away from him his birthright at its ripe fullness . He was ...
... Ganymede I could not see , of course , nor the lonely colony out on far Pluto . " Worlds of Hope , " Bonforte had called them . But he was dead . He was gone . They had taken away from him his birthright at its ripe fullness . He was ...
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