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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Page 11
... trip back in a slightly exaggerated version of his walk to allow for his untrained eye - feet sliding softly along the floor as if it were deck plates , weight carried forward and balanced from the hips , hands a trifle forward and ...
... trip back in a slightly exaggerated version of his walk to allow for his untrained eye - feet sliding softly along the floor as if it were deck plates , weight carried forward and balanced from the hips , hands a trifle forward and ...
Page 121
... trip out to Mars was as nothing to the hard study I put in on the trip to New Batavia . I already had the basic character ; now it was necessary to fill in the background , prepare myself to be Bonforte under almost any circumstances ...
... trip out to Mars was as nothing to the hard study I put in on the trip to New Batavia . I already had the basic character ; now it was necessary to fill in the background , prepare myself to be Bonforte under almost any circumstances ...
Page 127
... trip out , but then I was studying how he spoke ; now I was study- ing what he said . Bonforte was an orator in the grand tradition but he could be vitriolic in debate , e.g. , a speech he made in New Paris dur- ing the ruckus over the ...
... trip out , but then I was studying how he spoke ; now I was study- ing what he said . Bonforte was an orator in the grand tradition but he could be vitriolic in debate , e.g. , a speech he made in New Paris dur- ing the ruckus over the ...
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