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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... campaign manager ; two of my friends were pages in the House and Senate ; my father was an HEW bureaucrat who regularly testified before Congress . A child exposed to this sort of over- load of information and impression might go either ...
... campaign manager ; two of my friends were pages in the House and Senate ; my father was an HEW bureaucrat who regularly testified before Congress . A child exposed to this sort of over- load of information and impression might go either ...
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... campaign for a general election I had to see people - some people , at least . So I did what I had to do and got a daily report on Bonforte's progress toward complete recovery . His progress was good , if slow ; Capek reported that it ...
... campaign for a general election I had to see people - some people , at least . So I did what I had to do and got a daily report on Bonforte's progress toward complete recovery . His progress was good , if slow ; Capek reported that it ...
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... campaign and I wanted no more politics . I was not even sure I wanted to act again . Acting every minute for over six weeks adds up to about five hundred ordinary performances . That's a long run . They brought him up the lift in a ...
... campaign and I wanted no more politics . I was not even sure I wanted to act again . Acting every minute for over six weeks adds up to about five hundred ordinary performances . That's a long run . They brought him up the lift in a ...
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