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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... took a bounce tube from the sub - basement to the twenty - first floor , I having at the time a vague feeling that this was not the place to let my public recognize me . My voyageur friend let me in . " You took long enough , " he ...
... took a bounce tube from the sub - basement to the twenty - first floor , I having at the time a vague feeling that this was not the place to let my public recognize me . My voyageur friend let me in . " You took long enough , " he ...
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... took out two tickets reading , GATE PASS - MAINTENANCE PERMIT - Berth K127 , and stuck them into the monitor . The machine scanned them , a trans- parency directed us to take an upper - level car , code King 127 ; the gate let us ...
... took out two tickets reading , GATE PASS - MAINTENANCE PERMIT - Berth K127 , and stuck them into the monitor . The machine scanned them , a trans- parency directed us to take an upper - level car , code King 127 ; the gate let us ...
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... took out her secretary's note- book , wrote in it : Let's get rid of the car . I nodded , then took the book from her and wrote in it : How far away is Gate 3 ? She answered : Walking distance . Silently we climbed out and left . She ...
... took out her secretary's note- book , wrote in it : Let's get rid of the car . I nodded , then took the book from her and wrote in it : How far away is Gate 3 ? She answered : Walking distance . Silently we climbed out and left . She ...
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