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 67
It wasn ' t difficult ; I simply went straight to the owner ' s cabin and spent long ,
miserable hours in free fall , biting my nails and wondering what was happening
down on the surface . With the aid of anti - nausea pills I finally managed to float
off ...
It wasn ' t difficult ; I simply went straight to the owner ' s cabin and spent long ,
miserable hours in free fall , biting my nails and wondering what was happening
down on the surface . With the aid of anti - nausea pills I finally managed to float
off ...
Page 102
I wanted to tell Rog that if Willem had not been a really big man , kingly in the fine
seose of the word , we would all be in the soup simply because I had not been
adequately coached for the role . Instead I answered sourly , “ It ' s done and that
...
I wanted to tell Rog that if Willem had not been a really big man , kingly in the fine
seose of the word , we would all be in the soup simply because I had not been
adequately coached for the role . Instead I answered sourly , “ It ' s done and that
...
Page 114
He simply picked up the list and said , “ Very well , Chief . " Later that same day
Bill quit . I suppose Rog had to tell him that his arm - twisting had not worked . But
when Rog told me about it I felt sick , realizing that my stiff - necked attitude had ...
He simply picked up the list and said , “ Very well , Chief . " Later that same day
Bill quit . I suppose Rog had to tell him that his arm - twisting had not worked . But
when Rog told me about it I felt sick , realizing that my stiff - necked attitude had ...
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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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