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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... tion offered for verisimilitude and decoration . We learn that the g in " gnu " stands for a Bantu click , for instance , by way of demonstrating the impossibility of transliterating the Martian language into English . But education is ...
... tion offered for verisimilitude and decoration . We learn that the g in " gnu " stands for a Bantu click , for instance , by way of demonstrating the impossibility of transliterating the Martian language into English . But education is ...
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... tion . London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson , 1973 ; paper ed . , New York : Schocken Books , 1974 . Amis , Kingsley , New Maps of Hell : A Survey of Science Fiction . New York : Harcourt , Brace , 1960 ; reprint , New York : Arno Press ...
... tion . London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson , 1973 ; paper ed . , New York : Schocken Books , 1974 . Amis , Kingsley , New Maps of Hell : A Survey of Science Fiction . New York : Harcourt , Brace , 1960 ; reprint , New York : Arno Press ...
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... tion at any time up to the constitutional limitation of five years . Ordinarily they will go to the people when the time seems most favorable to them . But they don't resign between the announcement and the election unless forced to ...
... tion at any time up to the constitutional limitation of five years . Ordinarily they will go to the people when the time seems most favorable to them . But they don't resign between the announcement and the election unless forced to ...
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