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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Page 77
... Grand Assembly and was traveling privately no official honors were offered . He was alone save for his aide - and a little girl about fifteen . I knew him from photographs and I knew quite a bit about him ; Rog and Penny had briefed me ...
... Grand Assembly and was traveling privately no official honors were offered . He was alone save for his aide - and a little girl about fifteen . I knew him from photographs and I knew quite a bit about him ; Rog and Penny had briefed me ...
Page 112
... Grand Assembly , but as a matter of strict constitu- tional precedent he has no choice . When a government re- signs in a body - not just reshuffling portfolios but quits as a whole - then the sovereign must call on the leader of the ...
... Grand Assembly , but as a matter of strict constitu- tional precedent he has no choice . When a government re- signs in a body - not just reshuffling portfolios but quits as a whole - then the sovereign must call on the leader of the ...
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... Grand Assembly didn't recognize proxies . " " They don't , for all ordinary procedure . You either pair , or you show up and vote . But this is just the idler wheels going around in parliamentary machinery . If they don't let him appear ...
... Grand Assembly didn't recognize proxies . " " They don't , for all ordinary procedure . You either pair , or you show up and vote . But this is just the idler wheels going around in parliamentary machinery . If they don't let him appear ...
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