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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... slide rule ; it suggested that I was about to be Supreme Minister but was not quite there yet , that I was his senior but nevertheless a civilian - then sub- tract five degrees for the fact that he wore the Emperor's aiguillette on his ...
... slide rule ; it suggested that I was about to be Supreme Minister but was not quite there yet , that I was his senior but nevertheless a civilian - then sub- tract five degrees for the fact that he wore the Emperor's aiguillette on his ...
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... slide rule at Rog's side ; Rog had a big sheet of paper laid out in some complicated weighting formula of his own . A dozen or more of the giant metal brains through the Solar System were doing the same thing that night , but Rog ...
... slide rule at Rog's side ; Rog had a big sheet of paper laid out in some complicated weighting formula of his own . A dozen or more of the giant metal brains through the Solar System were doing the same thing that night , but Rog ...
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