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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... it's because I don't want to see what some- body else would do to this , one of my favorite books . I admit to a lack of objectivity . Heinlein's work has had a profound effect on my own writing ; I doubt that I would ever have written ...
... it's because I don't want to see what some- body else would do to this , one of my favorite books . I admit to a lack of objectivity . Heinlein's work has had a profound effect on my own writing ; I doubt that I would ever have written ...
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... It's worth noting that Heinlein had a good opportunity for sidestepping the labor of characterization here , and he seized it . It's normally bad form , of course , to simply tell readers what a person is like ; instead , you allow him ...
... It's worth noting that Heinlein had a good opportunity for sidestepping the labor of characterization here , and he seized it . It's normally bad form , of course , to simply tell readers what a person is like ; instead , you allow him ...
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... it's a team — it's a team bound together by common purposes and common beliefs . We've lost our team captain and we've got to have another one . But the team is still there . " Capek was out on the balcony ; I had not seen him come out ...
... it's a team — it's a team bound together by common purposes and common beliefs . We've lost our team captain and we've got to have another one . But the team is still there . " Capek was out on the balcony ; I had not seen him come out ...
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