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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... ship . I used about every third rung . The rocket ship was apparently small . At least the control room was quite cramped ; I never got a look at the outside . The only other spaceships I had ever been in were the Moon shuttles ...
... ship . I used about every third rung . The rocket ship was apparently small . At least the control room was quite cramped ; I never got a look at the outside . The only other spaceships I had ever been in were the Moon shuttles ...
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... ship's communicator , apparently talking on a very tight beam for his hands constantly nursed the directional control like a gunner laying a gun under difficulties . I could not hear what he said , or even read his lips , as he had his ...
... ship's communicator , apparently talking on a very tight beam for his hands constantly nursed the directional control like a gunner laying a gun under difficulties . I could not hear what he said , or even read his lips , as he had his ...
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Robert Anson Heinlein. do while under way , the ship described what Dak called a 180 - degree skew turn . It leaves ... ships even though the jet is heated by an atomic pile . The long - jump ships such as the Tom Paine , torchships that ...
Robert Anson Heinlein. do while under way , the ship described what Dak called a 180 - degree skew turn . It leaves ... ships even though the jet is heated by an atomic pile . The long - jump ships such as the Tom Paine , torchships that ...
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