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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... science fiction writers don't know enough science to teach with authority , but because science changes fast and good books stay in print a long time . The author might impress us with the felicity of his prose ( a rare enough quality in ...
... science fiction writers don't know enough science to teach with authority , but because science changes fast and good books stay in print a long time . The author might impress us with the felicity of his prose ( a rare enough quality in ...
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... science fiction . Theo- dore Sturgeon said a science fiction story was one " in which the story would not exist if it were not for the scientific element . " Heinlein quoted this definition in a 1959 essay , characterizing it as ...
... science fiction . Theo- dore Sturgeon said a science fiction story was one " in which the story would not exist if it were not for the scientific element . " Heinlein quoted this definition in a 1959 essay , characterizing it as ...
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... Science Fiction . Chicago : Advent Publishers , 1964 . More Issues at Hand : Critical Studies in Contemporary Science Fiction . Chicago : Advent Publishers , 1970 . Bretnor , Reginald , ed . Science Fiction , Today and Tomorrow . New ...
... Science Fiction . Chicago : Advent Publishers , 1964 . More Issues at Hand : Critical Studies in Contemporary Science Fiction . Chicago : Advent Publishers , 1970 . Bretnor , Reginald , ed . Science Fiction , Today and Tomorrow . New ...
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