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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... played Caesar in the only two plays about him worthy of the name . But to play such a role in life — well , it is enough to make one understand how a man could go to the guillotine in another man's place - just for the chance to play ...
... played Caesar in the only two plays about him worthy of the name . But to play such a role in life — well , it is enough to make one understand how a man could go to the guillotine in another man's place - just for the chance to play ...
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... play it . Hell , I could play it with one foot in a bucket and a smell of smoke backstage . To begin with , there was no problem of physique ; Bonforte and I could have swapped clothes without a wrinkle . These child- ish conspirators ...
... play it . Hell , I could play it with one foot in a bucket and a smell of smoke backstage . To begin with , there was no problem of physique ; Bonforte and I could have swapped clothes without a wrinkle . These child- ish conspirators ...
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... play , else I would not have stood a chance . Most of the time I did not know what they were saying and half of the ... played once with Hawk Mantell , shortly before he died , after he was stone - deaf . There was a trouper ! He could ...
... play , else I would not have stood a chance . Most of the time I did not know what they were saying and half of the ... played once with Hawk Mantell , shortly before he died , after he was stone - deaf . There was a trouper ! He could ...
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