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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... characters , Lorenzo has a past and a family , and they haunt him , and so give his character dimension . His father was an actor , evidently a better one , and in the way Lorenzo ruminates over what he said , what he would have done ...
... characters , Lorenzo has a past and a family , and they haunt him , and so give his character dimension . His father was an actor , evidently a better one , and in the way Lorenzo ruminates over what he said , what he would have done ...
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... characters in the book are or have become sturdy workhorses in science fiction's stable . Dak Broadbent : hero : rough - and ... character , full of contradictions and quirks , but he requires a lot of " suspension of disbelief . " His ...
... characters in the book are or have become sturdy workhorses in science fiction's stable . Dak Broadbent : hero : rough - and ... character , full of contradictions and quirks , but he requires a lot of " suspension of disbelief . " His ...
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... character development , not action . Most of what happens con- cerns the shifting relationships between Lorenzo and various of Bonforte's intimates . The character change is profound and convincing , yet the novel is relatively short ...
... character development , not action . Most of what happens con- cerns the shifting relationships between Lorenzo and various of Bonforte's intimates . The character change is profound and convincing , yet the novel is relatively short ...
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