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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... speech in which I was to accept membership in the Kkkah nest - a speech not unlike that , in spirit , with which an orthodox Jewish boy assumes the responsibilities of manhood , but as fixed , as invariable , as Hamlet's soliloquy . I ...
... speech in which I was to accept membership in the Kkkah nest - a speech not unlike that , in spirit , with which an orthodox Jewish boy assumes the responsibilities of manhood , but as fixed , as invariable , as Hamlet's soliloquy . I ...
Page 59
... speeches , I made my ac- ceptance speech in answer , and they gave me my name and my wand . I was a Martian . I did not know how to use the wand and my name sounded like a leaky faucet , but from that instant on it was my legal name on ...
... speeches , I made my ac- ceptance speech in answer , and they gave me my name and my wand . I was a Martian . I did not know how to use the wand and my name sounded like a leaky faucet , but from that instant on it was my legal name on ...
Page 79
... speech , but was such a result possible ? Well , if it was , it was certainly fast service . I said wonderingly , " Bill , do I understand that you are complaining that the speech I made was too effective to suit you ? " " Huh ? Hell ...
... speech , but was such a result possible ? Well , if it was , it was certainly fast service . I said wonderingly , " Bill , do I understand that you are complaining that the speech I made was too effective to suit you ? " " Huh ? Hell ...
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