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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... appearances around the ship . Dirty or not , politics is not my game - just pay me off and ship me home and I'll ... appearance before King Wil- lem - and possibly show up at a controlled press conference or two , depending on how ...
... appearances around the ship . Dirty or not , politics is not my game - just pay me off and ship me home and I'll ... appearance before King Wil- lem - and possibly show up at a controlled press conference or two , depending on how ...
Page 148
... appearances ? " " It's hard to say . Before long . " " How long ? Three or four days ? A short enough time that we ... appearance . It might well ruin my char- acterization . " I had made the terrible mistake of going to my father's ...
... appearances ? " " It's hard to say . Before long . " " How long ? Three or four days ? A short enough time that we ... appearance . It might well ruin my char- acterization . " I had made the terrible mistake of going to my father's ...
Page 152
... appearance I did not want my subconscious playing me tricks . The role called for a well man . " But , Rog , everything I said applies still more emphati- cally on the basis of what you have just told me . If they are even reasonably ...
... appearance I did not want my subconscious playing me tricks . The role called for a well man . " But , Rog , everything I said applies still more emphati- cally on the basis of what you have just told me . If they are even reasonably ...
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