Double Star [NOOK Book]

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Lorenzo, an out of work actor in the year 2100, finds himself agreeing to play the most difficult role of his life--posing as a double for a missing political leader whose presence is necessary to prevent interplanetary war. Winner of the Hugo Award.

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Overview

Lorenzo, an out of work actor in the year 2100, finds himself agreeing to play the most difficult role of his life--posing as a double for a missing political leader whose presence is necessary to prevent interplanetary war. Winner of the Hugo Award.

"Bears the Heinlein cache of credible authenticity."
- Anthony Boucher (Fantasy and Science-Fiction)

"Not only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world."
- Stephen King
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St. Louis Post Dispatch
"In this intricately plotted novel of interplanetary intrigue, Heinlein is at his best."
Galaxy Science-Fiction
"Pleasant and exciting reading."
Anthony Boucher
"Bears the Heinlein cache of credible authenticity."
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940012408907
  • Publisher: Spectrum Literary Agency, Inc.
  • Publication date: 6/9/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 62,551
  • File size: 812 KB

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 5, 2001

    An excellent book

    A great book! I really enjoyed reading it. And I enjoyed reading it the second and the third time! The book is basically about an actor who has to impersonate a public figure, in order to prevent a war with the aliens, but I won't go any further with the plot, or I'll spoil the fun. Anyhow, the story has lots of twists and turns, and is going to make you 'hod on to it' 'till the end.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 6, 2013

    An intricate and well plotted novel written in the rollicking style of the Grand Master of Science Fiction Himself !!!

    This is a tightly written and well plotted story of political intrigue and deception written against a futuristic background involving two different interplanetary races and political parties in an imaginary SciFi future.

    Heinlein's characters come alive off the page, with all the warmth, faults, flaws, and basic human decencies which make his protaganists, heroes, and villians all so classically unforgetable. A grand read for any real SciFi buff !!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 22, 2012

    Not a good value

    This is a classic Heinlein story which is, of course, dated. At 148 pages, it is not novel length and the cost was too high.

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