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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... nest swarms over them and tears the city down around their ears . " “ Oh . I'm still learning about Martian ... nest after his death - and then the whole nest and probably every nest on Mars would set out to avenge him . They would not ...
... nest swarms over them and tears the city down around their ears . " “ Oh . I'm still learning about Martian ... nest after his death - and then the whole nest and probably every nest on Mars would set out to avenge him . They would not ...
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... nests --but a Martian enters the inner nest only of his own fam- ily . Even his conjugate - spouses are not thus privileged . I have no more right to tell the details of the adoption cere- mony than a lodge brother has to be specific ...
... nests --but a Martian enters the inner nest only of his own fam- ily . Even his conjugate - spouses are not thus privileged . I have no more right to tell the details of the adoption cere- mony than a lodge brother has to be specific ...
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... nests , I mean ? ” " Eh ? I suppose so . Yes . " " Of course . I would guess that every nest has stereo re- ceivers ; I certainly noticed plenty of them in Kkkah nest . They follow the Empire news as carefully as we do . Don't they ...
... nests , I mean ? ” " Eh ? I suppose so . Yes . " " Of course . I would guess that every nest has stereo re- ceivers ; I certainly noticed plenty of them in Kkkah nest . They follow the Empire news as carefully as we do . Don't they ...
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