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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... torchship , which was in parking orbit around Earth , be- fore I could stir up interest in anything . I suspect that if one were to inform a victim of spacesickness that he was to be shot at sunrise his own answer would be , " Yes ...
... torchship , which was in parking orbit around Earth , be- fore I could stir up interest in anything . I suspect that if one were to inform a victim of spacesickness that he was to be shot at sunrise his own answer would be , " Yes ...
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... torchship I was glad to be comfortably back in free fall again ; surge nausea is even worse than everyday dropsickness . But we did not stay in free fall more than five minutes ; the three men who were to go back in the Can Do were ...
... torchship I was glad to be comfortably back in free fall again ; surge nausea is even worse than everyday dropsickness . But we did not stay in free fall more than five minutes ; the three men who were to go back in the Can Do were ...
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... torchship can land on it . But the Tom Paine , being a torchship , was really in- tended to stay in space and be serviced only at space stations in orbit ; she had to be landed in a cradle . I wish I had been awake to see it , for they ...
... torchship can land on it . But the Tom Paine , being a torchship , was really in- tended to stay in space and be serviced only at space stations in orbit ; she had to be landed in a cradle . I wish I had been awake to see it , for they ...
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