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 73
It ' s a lot of fun for an actor to mess around with lines ; he doesn ' t get the chance
very often . I used no one but Penny for my audience and made sure from Dak
that I was not being tapped elsewhere in the ship though I suspect that the big ...
It ' s a lot of fun for an actor to mess around with lines ; he doesn ' t get the chance
very often . I used no one but Penny for my audience and made sure from Dak
that I was not being tapped elsewhere in the ship though I suspect that the big ...
Page 97
The hours are easy and the pay is good - and the social security is firstratebarring
the outside chance of revolution , and my line has always been lucky on that
score . But much of the work is tedious and could be done as well by any second
...
The hours are easy and the pay is good - and the social security is firstratebarring
the outside chance of revolution , and my line has always been lucky on that
score . But much of the work is tedious and could be done as well by any second
...
Page 106
Yes . But this is just a walk - through , isn ' t it ? Lines as fixed as a play ? Would
there be any chance of anyone pulling any surprises on me that I couldn ' t
handle ? " : " Well , no . Ordinarily you would be expected to talk to the press
afterwards ...
Yes . But this is just a walk - through , isn ' t it ? Lines as fixed as a play ? Would
there be any chance of anyone pulling any surprises on me that I couldn ' t
handle ? " : " Well , no . Ordinarily you would be expected to talk to the press
afterwards ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Double Star Signet 451-T5566 Signet books Page 3669 of Signet science fiction Signets Belles lettres |
| Author | Robert Anson Heinlein |
| Publisher | New American Library, 1957 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Jun 2008 |
| ISBN | 0451081889, 9780451081889 |
| Length | 128 pages |
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