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Double Star

By Robert A. Heinlein

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780345330130

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One 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 diContinue

One 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!

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  • This was a rather enjoyable, though fairly light and very 50s/60s story about an actor who became a double for a politician of an Empire throughout our solar system. It has some interesting Martians which I would have liked to have seen developed more. On the whole it felt a little too short. But b ... (continue)

    This was a rather enjoyable, though fairly light and very 50s/60s story about an actor who became a double for a politician of an Empire throughout our solar system. It has some interesting Martians which I would have liked to have seen developed more. On the whole it felt a little too short. But because it was so short it made for a fun diversion.

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