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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... speech in which I was to accept membership in the Kkkah nest - a speech not unlike that , in spirit , with which an orthodox Jewish boy assumes the responsibilities of manhood , but as fixed , as invariable , as Hamlet's soliloquy . I ...
... speech in which I was to accept membership in the Kkkah nest - a speech not unlike that , in spirit , with which an orthodox Jewish boy assumes the responsibilities of manhood , but as fixed , as invariable , as Hamlet's soliloquy . I ...
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... speeches . Here's an odd thing - I believed every word of it while I was talking . But , brother , I made a speech ! Afterwards we all listened to the playback , complete with full stereo of myself . Jimmie Washington was present ...
... speeches . Here's an odd thing - I believed every word of it while I was talking . But , brother , I made a speech ! Afterwards we all listened to the playback , complete with full stereo of myself . Jimmie Washington was present ...
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... speech , but was such a result possible ? Well , if it was , it was certainly fast service . I said wonderingly , " Bill , do I understand that you are complaining that the speech I made was too effective to suit you ? " " Huh ? Hell ...
... speech , but was such a result possible ? Well , if it was , it was certainly fast service . I said wonderingly , " Bill , do I understand that you are complaining that the speech I made was too effective to suit you ? " " Huh ? Hell ...
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