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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... walk . That's the most distinctive thing about you . If your walk is wrong , it cannot possibly be you - so it must be some other big - boned , broad - shouldered man who looks a bit like you . " " Okay , show me how to walk . " 24.
... walk . That's the most distinctive thing about you . If your walk is wrong , it cannot possibly be you - so it must be some other big - boned , broad - shouldered man who looks a bit like you . " " Okay , show me how to walk . " 24.
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Robert Anson Heinlein. " Okay , show me how to walk . " " No , you could never learn it . I'll force you to walk the way I want you to . " " How ? " " We'll put a handful of pebbles or the equivalent in the toes of your boots . That will ...
Robert Anson Heinlein. " Okay , show me how to walk . " " No , you could never learn it . I'll force you to walk the way I want you to . " " How ? " " We'll put a handful of pebbles or the equivalent in the toes of your boots . That will ...
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... walk . " Dak stopped talking ; for a moment there was no sound but the keening of the thin Martian air past the roof . A human being can walk possibly two hundred yards on Mars without an oxygen mask , if he is in good condition . I ...
... walk . " Dak stopped talking ; for a moment there was no sound but the keening of the thin Martian air past the roof . A human being can walk possibly two hundred yards on Mars without an oxygen mask , if he is in good condition . I ...
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