Double StarWhen the most important statesman of the 21st century disappears on Mars, the only hope of preventing interplanetary war lies in an actor's ability to impersonate the missing leader well enough to fool two worlds. |
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Page 75
The real difficulty is that you have to exercise conscious control on the muscles
that close the back of your mouth , or you hiss like a teakettle , since the durn
thing operates on a pressure difference . Fortunately the pilot equalized to Mars ...
The real difficulty is that you have to exercise conscious control on the muscles
that close the back of your mouth , or you hiss like a teakettle , since the durn
thing operates on a pressure difference . Fortunately the pilot equalized to Mars ...
Page 80
... as snails — and they are , on our comparatively heavy planet . On their own
world they skim along on their bases like a stone sliding over water . To the right ,
south of us past the flat field , the Great Canal dipped into the too - close horizon
...
... as snails — and they are , on our comparatively heavy planet . On their own
world they skim along on their bases like a stone sliding over water . To the right ,
south of us past the flat field , the Great Canal dipped into the too - close horizon
...
Page 85
There was an open lane in front of me , with thousands on each side , set close
together as asparagus . I knew that the first thing I must do was slow - march
down the center of that lane , clear to the far end , to the ramp leading down into
the ...
There was an open lane in front of me , with thousands on each side , set close
together as asparagus . I knew that the first thing I must do was slow - march
down the center of that lane , clear to the far end , to the ramp leading down into
the ...
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User Review - baswood - LibraryThingThis 1956 Hugo award winning novel is included in the science fiction masterwork series and either has not aged well or was a lack lustre rip-off from the start. It takes as a basis for its story the ... Read full review
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User Review - Stevil2001 - LibraryThingI was surprised how much I liked this book. It's a relatively simple and predictable plot: Lorenzo Smythe is an actor hired to impersonate a politician at a key political moment. Only thing is, the ... Read full review
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| Title | Double Star Doubleday science fiction The Gregg Press science fiction series |
| Author | Robert Anson Heinlein |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg Press, 1978 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 8 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0839824467, 9780839824466 |
| Length | 186 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Science Fiction / General |
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