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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... 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 - surface pressure once we all had our masks on , which gave me twenty ...
... 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 - surface pressure once we all had our masks on , which gave me twenty ...
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... close horizon , showing no shore line be- yond . Straight ahead of us was the Nest of Kkkah , a fairy city . I was staring at it , my heart lifting at its fragile beauty , when Dak moved suddenly . We were well past the traffic around ...
... close horizon , showing no shore line be- yond . Straight ahead of us was the Nest of Kkkah , a fairy city . I was staring at it , my heart lifting at its fragile beauty , when Dak moved suddenly . We were well past the traffic around ...
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... 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 inner nest . I could not move . I said to myself , " Look , boy ...
... 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 inner nest . I could not move . I said to myself , " Look , boy ...
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