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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... torchship . About seventeen seconds and a gnat's wink after we make contact the Go For Broke will torch for Mars - for we've got to be there by Wednesday . " I answered with the petulant stubbornness of a sick man . " I'm not going to ...
... torchship . About seventeen seconds and a gnat's wink after we make contact the Go For Broke will torch for Mars - for we've got to be there by Wednesday . " I answered with the petulant stubbornness of a sick man . " I'm not going to ...
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... torchship I was glad to be comfortably back in free fall again ; surge nausea is even worse than everyday dropsickness . But we did not stay in free fall more than five minutes ; the three men who were to go back in the Can Do were ...
... torchship I was glad to be comfortably back in free fall again ; surge nausea is even worse than everyday dropsickness . But we did not stay in free fall more than five minutes ; the three men who were to go back in the Can Do were ...
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... I had running but I must have been asleep in seconds . The next thing I knew Dak was saying deferentially , " Wake up , sir . Please wake up . We're grounded at Lippershey Field . ” Our Moon being an airless planet , a torchship can 128.
... I had running but I must have been asleep in seconds . The next thing I knew Dak was saying deferentially , " Wake up , sir . Please wake up . We're grounded at Lippershey Field . ” Our Moon being an airless planet , a torchship can 128.
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