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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... felt no obligation to Dak Broadbent . For reasons of his own - not my reasons ! -he had almost got me killed , then had crowded me into covering up a crime , made me a fugitive from justice . But we had evaded the police , temporarily ...
... felt no obligation to Dak Broadbent . For reasons of his own - not my reasons ! -he had almost got me killed , then had crowded me into covering up a crime , made me a fugitive from justice . But we had evaded the police , temporarily ...
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... felt myself grow very heavy . Two gravities is not bad , not when you are floating in a liquid bed . The skin over the top of the cider press pushed up around me , supporting me inch by inch ; I simply felt heavy and found it hard to ...
... felt myself grow very heavy . Two gravities is not bad , not when you are floating in a liquid bed . The skin over the top of the cider press pushed up around me , supporting me inch by inch ; I simply felt heavy and found it hard to ...
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... felt you should know - and know why . We think you ought to approve it . " " Me ? You're asking me for a decision as if I were Mr. Bonforte . I'm not . " I tapped the desk in his nervous gesture . " Either this decision is at his level ...
... felt you should know - and know why . We think you ought to approve it . " " Me ? You're asking me for a decision as if I were Mr. Bonforte . I'm not . " I tapped the desk in his nervous gesture . " Either this decision is at his level ...
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