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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I don ' t understand you . There are lots of actors picking up spare money making
public appearances for celebrities . " " I regard them as prostitutes , not
colleagues . Let me make myself clear . Does an author respect a ghost writer ?
I don ' t understand you . There are lots of actors picking up spare money making
public appearances for celebrities . " " I regard them as prostitutes , not
colleagues . Let me make myself clear . Does an author respect a ghost writer ?
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I understand that Trowbridge is that sort of bloke . So if we can get him , we ' ll use
him instead , pay you off and tell you nothing and ship you back . Understand ? "
Too well I understood . Dak did not use the word - I doubt if he would have ...
I understand that Trowbridge is that sort of bloke . So if we can get him , we ' ll use
him instead , pay you off and tell you nothing and ship you back . Understand ? "
Too well I understood . Dak did not use the word - I doubt if he would have ...
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To understand all is to forgive all " — and I was beginning to understand Bonforte
. At turnover we got that one - gravity rest that Dak had promised . We never were
in free fall , not for an instant ; instead of putting out the torch , which I gather ...
To understand all is to forgive all " — and I was beginning to understand Bonforte
. At turnover we got that one - gravity rest that Dak had promised . We never were
in free fall , not for an instant ; instead of putting out the torch , which I gather ...
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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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