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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... Kkkah , a fairy city . I was staring at it , my heart lifting at its fragile beauty , when Dak moved suddenly . We were well past the traffic around the godowns but there was one car ahead , coming toward us ; I had seen it without ...
... Kkkah , a fairy city . I was staring at it , my heart lifting at its fragile beauty , when Dak moved suddenly . We were well past the traffic around the godowns but there was one car ahead , coming toward us ; I had seen it without ...
Page 93
... Kkkah . But they had found Bonforte , had simply run across him in the street before they left Old Town - a poor old stumblebum with a week's beard , dirty and dazed . The men had not recognized him , but Penny had known him and made ...
... Kkkah . But they had found Bonforte , had simply run across him in the street before they left Old Town - a poor old stumblebum with a week's beard , dirty and dazed . The men had not recognized him , but Penny had known him and made ...
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... Kkkah nest . " My opponent , " Bonforte had said with a rasp in his voice , " would have you believe that the motto of the so - called Humanity Party , ' Government of human beings , by human beings , and for human beings , ' is no more ...
... Kkkah nest . " My opponent , " Bonforte had said with a rasp in his voice , " would have you believe that the motto of the so - called Humanity Party , ' Government of human beings , by human beings , and for human beings , ' is no more ...
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