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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... fact , it was probably wishful thinking in 1956. Torch- ships and life wands are just new names for everyday science- fictional hardware . But there is lots of interesting information in the book . The parts that ring most true are ...
... fact , it was probably wishful thinking in 1956. Torch- ships and life wands are just new names for everyday science- fictional hardware . But there is lots of interesting information in the book . The parts that ring most true are ...
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... fact , you have already started your impersonation . This ship is not really the Go For Broke ; it is the Chief's private yacht and traveling office , the Tom Paine . The Go For Broke is riding a parking orbit around Mars , with its ...
... fact , you have already started your impersonation . This ship is not really the Go For Broke ; it is the Chief's private yacht and traveling office , the Tom Paine . The Go For Broke is riding a parking orbit around Mars , with its ...
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... fact , they possessed the same quaint grace as a Chinese pagoda . True , they were not human in form , but neither is a bird of paradise - and birds of paradise are the loveliest things alive . I began to realize , too , that their ...
... fact , they possessed the same quaint grace as a Chinese pagoda . True , they were not human in form , but neither is a bird of paradise - and birds of paradise are the loveliest things alive . I began to realize , too , that their ...
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