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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... sort of over- load of information and impression might go either of two ways . I took the low road , growing up convinced that if there ever were any good politicians , they are safely dead and in the history books ; the live ones are ...
... sort of over- load of information and impression might go either of two ways . I took the low road , growing up convinced that if there ever were any good politicians , they are safely dead and in the history books ; the live ones are ...
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... sort he would not have had these people around him . The Martian language gave me my greatest worry . Like most actors , I had picked up enough Martian , Venerian , Outer Jovian , etc. , to be able to fake in front of a camera or on ...
... sort he would not have had these people around him . The Martian language gave me my greatest worry . Like most actors , I had picked up enough Martian , Venerian , Outer Jovian , etc. , to be able to fake in front of a camera or on ...
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... sort of order even from him . " He inclined his head toward the room Bonforte was in . " Cer- tain decisions a man must make himself . " " That's right . " " Mmm - I hear you've made one of that sort . " " That's right . " " So. I've ...
... sort of order even from him . " He inclined his head toward the room Bonforte was in . " Cer- tain decisions a man must make himself . " " That's right . " " Mmm - I hear you've made one of that sort . " " That's right . " " So. I've ...
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