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. Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians was at stake -- failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. And Smythe's own life was on the line -- for if he wasn't assassinated, there was always the possibility that he might be trapped in his new role forever! Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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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 difficulties . 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 difficulties . I could not hear what he ...
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... live a role ? Yet such is the injustice of fortune that his sawings and rantings had paid him well while real artists went hungry . " Dak , I simply cannot see why you considered him for it . " " Well , we didn't want him ; he is tied ...
... live a role ? Yet such is the injustice of fortune that his sawings and rantings had paid him well while real artists went hungry . " Dak , I simply cannot see why you considered him for it . " " Well , we didn't want him ; he is tied ...
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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 ap- pendix and then take his bows before he had let them rush him to a hospital . 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 ap- pendix and then take his bows before he had let them rush him to a hospital . I could see his face now , looking at ...
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