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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... Heinlein is the best science fiction writer . This is not a particularly controversial opinion for a reader ( a ... Heinlein's work has had a profound effect on my own writing ; I doubt that I would ever have written science fiction if I ...
... Heinlein is the best science fiction writer . This is not a particularly controversial opinion for a reader ( a ... Heinlein's work has had a profound effect on my own writing ; I doubt that I would ever have written science fiction if I ...
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... Heinlein saves himself in the last two pages , through an impressive framing device that puts the story into a new perspective and suddenly gives it a moral dimension . And the ... HEINLEIN CHECKLIST A chronological list of Heinlein's books.
... Heinlein saves himself in the last two pages , through an impressive framing device that puts the story into a new perspective and suddenly gives it a moral dimension . And the ... HEINLEIN CHECKLIST A chronological list of Heinlein's books.
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Robert Anson Heinlein. Introduction xvii HEINLEIN CHECKLIST A chronological list of Heinlein's books ; novels , unless otherwise indicated ( compiled with the aid of Donald Tuck's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy , Advent ...
Robert Anson Heinlein. Introduction xvii HEINLEIN CHECKLIST A chronological list of Heinlein's books ; novels , unless otherwise indicated ( compiled with the aid of Donald Tuck's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy , Advent ...
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