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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... ship . I used about every third rung . The rocket ship was apparently small . At least the control room was quite cramped ; I never got a look at the outside . The only other spaceships I had ever been in were the Moon shuttles ...
... ship . I used about every third rung . The rocket ship was apparently small . At least the control room was quite cramped ; I never got a look at the outside . The only other spaceships I had ever been in were the Moon shuttles ...
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... 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 said , or even read his lips , as he had ...
... 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 said , or even read his lips , as he had ...
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... ship on boost the whole time and is done rather quickly , but it has an oddly disturb- ing effect on the sense of ... ships even though the jet is heated by an atomic pile . The long - jump ships such as the Tom Paine , torchships that ...
... ship on boost the whole time and is done rather quickly , but it has an oddly disturb- ing effect on the sense of ... ships even though the jet is heated by an atomic pile . The long - jump ships such as the Tom Paine , torchships that ...
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