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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... laugh - I'll bet they would laugh if Grandma broke both legs . I was spacesick , of course , as soon as the rocket ship quit blasting and went into free fall . I came out of it fairly quickly as my stomach was practically empty - I'd ...
... laugh - I'll bet they would laugh if Grandma broke both legs . I was spacesick , of course , as soon as the rocket ship quit blasting and went into free fall . I came out of it fairly quickly as my stomach was practically empty - I'd ...
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... laughed so hard that the acceleration seemed to be too much for him ; he slid to the deck and braced his back against ... laugh again . " I see . You thought it was a job about like food taster for a Middle Ages king . Well , we'll have ...
... laughed so hard that the acceleration seemed to be too much for him ; he slid to the deck and braced his back against ... laugh again . " I see . You thought it was a job about like food taster for a Middle Ages king . Well , we'll have ...
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... laugh . I smiled and started to turn away again . Bill came rushing around the table and grabbed at my arm . " You can't laugh it off ! " The Times man - Mr . Ackroyd , it was - pulled him away from me . I said , " Thank you , sir . " 168.
... laugh . I smiled and started to turn away again . Bill came rushing around the table and grabbed at my arm . " You can't laugh it off ! " The Times man - Mr . Ackroyd , it was - pulled him away from me . I said , " Thank you , sir . " 168.
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