Double StarOne minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. |
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... live . Dak was busy most of the time at the ship's communicator , apparently talking on a very tight beam for his hands constantly nursed the directional control like a gunner laying a gun under diffi- culties . I could not hear what he ...
... live . Dak was busy most of the time at the ship's communicator , apparently talking on a very tight beam for his hands constantly nursed the directional control like a gunner laying a gun under diffi- culties . I could not hear what he ...
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... live by are rarely subject to logical proof . My father had believed it - I had seen him play two acts with a burst appendix and then take his bows before he had let them rush him to a hospi- tal . I could see his face now , looking at ...
... live by are rarely subject to logical proof . My father had believed it - I had seen him play two acts with a burst appendix and then take his bows before he had let them rush him to a hospi- tal . I could see his face now , looking at ...
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... live again , that seedy actor had to be suppressed - completely . Insane or not , I am aware that he once existed and that I was he . He was never a success as an actor , not really - though I think he was sometimes touched with the ...
... live again , that seedy actor had to be suppressed - completely . Insane or not , I am aware that he once existed and that I was he . He was never a success as an actor , not really - though I think he was sometimes touched with the ...
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