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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... Party . In a manner of speaking , he him- self was the Expansionist Party , not merely its most promi- nent leader but its political philosopher and greatest states- man . Expansionism had hardly been more than a " Manifest Destiny ...
... Party . In a manner of speaking , he him- self was the Expansionist Party , not merely its most promi- nent leader but its political philosopher and greatest states- man . Expansionism had hardly been more than a " Manifest Destiny ...
Page 125
... Party sounded remarkably like the present Humanity Party . I was not aware that political parties often change as much in growing up as people do . I had known vaguely that the Humanity Party had started as a splinter of the Expan ...
... Party sounded remarkably like the present Humanity Party . I was not aware that political parties often change as much in growing up as people do . I had known vaguely that the Humanity Party had started as a splinter of the Expan ...
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... party leader should certainly appear at the main head- quarters of the Party sometime during election night . But I had never been in headquarters , it being the sort of a but- tonholing place where my impersonation might be easily ...
... party leader should certainly appear at the main head- quarters of the Party sometime during election night . But I had never been in headquarters , it being the sort of a but- tonholing place where my impersonation might be easily ...
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