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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... politics , since Double Star is a novel of political action . It's obvious from the density of realistic detail in the book that Heinlein knows a great deal about practical politics ; his biography says that he once ran for office . My ...
... politics , since Double Star is a novel of political action . It's obvious from the density of realistic detail in the book that Heinlein knows a great deal about practical politics ; his biography says that he once ran for office . My ...
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... political coup ever attempted falls flat on its face . Worse than that , it will back- fire . My guess is that the very least that will happen is for Mars to withdraw even from its present loose association with the Empire . Much more ...
... political coup ever attempted falls flat on its face . Worse than that , it will back- fire . My guess is that the very least that will happen is for Mars to withdraw even from its present loose association with the Empire . Much more ...
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... political parties often change as much in growing up as people do . I had known vaguely that the Humanity Party had started as a splinter of the Expan- sionist movement but I had never thought about it . Actually it was inevitable ; as ...
... political parties often change as much in growing up as people do . I had known vaguely that the Humanity Party had started as a splinter of the Expan- sionist movement but I had never thought about it . Actually it was inevitable ; as ...
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