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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Page 84
... started , I was so busy doing it I didn't have time to do it wrong . " Clifton called out , his voice thin in thin air , " Dak ! Are you watching the time ? " " Gobs of time . Over a minute . " " Mr. Bonforte ! " It was Penny's voice ...
... started , I was so busy doing it I didn't have time to do it wrong . " Clifton called out , his voice thin in thin air , " Dak ! Are you watching the time ? " " Gobs of time . Over a minute . " " Mr. Bonforte ! " It was Penny's voice ...
Page 125
... started as a splinter of the Expan- sionist movement but I had never thought about it . Actually it was inevitable ; as the political parties which did not have their eyes on the sky dwindled away under the imperatives of history and ...
... started as a splinter of the Expan- sionist movement but I had never thought about it . Actually it was inevitable ; as the political parties which did not have their eyes on the sky dwindled away under the imperatives of history and ...
Page 168
... started spewing forth the basic story , talking rapidly . He made no mention of the kid- naping and did not mention his own part in the hoax , but implied that he had left us rather than be mixed up in any such swindle . The ...
... started spewing forth the basic story , talking rapidly . He made no mention of the kid- naping and did not mention his own part in the hoax , but implied that he had left us rather than be mixed up in any such swindle . The ...
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