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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... least two of these , and does them well . Furthermore , and I can't think of a single counterexample , no book can be considered a classic unless it does all four of them well.2 At least this gives us a loosely quantitative rule for ...
... least two of these , and does them well . Furthermore , and I can't think of a single counterexample , no book can be considered a classic unless it does all four of them well.2 At least this gives us a loosely quantitative rule for ...
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... least a dozen used glasses and as many coffee cups scattered here and there ; it took no skill to see that I was merely the latest of many visitors . Sprawled on a couch , scowling at me , was another man , whom I tabbed tentatively as ...
... least a dozen used glasses and as many coffee cups scattered here and there ; it took no skill to see that I was merely the latest of many visitors . Sprawled on a couch , scowling at me , was another man , whom I tabbed tentatively as ...
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... least three assassination attempts - or so the news reports would have us believe . At least two of his escapes had seemed almost miraculous . Suppose they were not miraculous ? Suppose they had all been successful — but dear old Uncle ...
... least three assassination attempts - or so the news reports would have us believe . At least two of his escapes had seemed almost miraculous . Suppose they were not miraculous ? Suppose they had all been successful — but dear old Uncle ...
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