Back to Blog
Double star robert heinlein6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() This forces Smith to extend his performance, even to becoming temporary Supreme Minister and running in an election. Bonforte is rescued, but he is in poor health due to the treatment inflicted on him during his imprisonment. They were true on any planet around any starand if the human race did not behave accordingly they weren’t ever going to win to the stars because some better race would slap them down for double-dealing.'' (162) Heinlein developers this philosophical debate with such skill, with such finesse, the character enters the heart. ![]() Bonforte has been kidnapped by his political opponents, and his aides want Smith to impersonate Bonforte while they try to find him. Bonforte is the leader of the Expansionist coalition, currently out of office but with a good chance of changing that at the next general election. It is only when he is on his way to Mars that he finds out how deeply he has been deceived: he will have to impersonate one of the most prominent politicians in the solar system (and one with whose views Smythe deeply disagrees): John Joseph Bonforte. A brilliant actor and mimic, he is down to his last coin when a spaceman hires him to double for a public figure. The story, which is told in the first person, centers on down-and-out actor Lawrence Smith (stage name Lorenzo Smythe, a.k.a. At the 1957 Worldcon it received the Hugo Award for Best Novel of the previous year. Heinlein, first serialized in Astounding Science Fiction (February, March, April 1956) and published in hardcover the same year. ![]() FROM THE PUBLISHER - DOUBLE STAR is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Condition: Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. ![]()
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |