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Every stand-in dreamed of the starring role—but what actor would risk his life for the chance?
One minute, down-and-out actor Lorenzo Smythe is, as usual, in a bar, drinking away his troubles while watching his career circle the drain. Then a space pilot buys him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knows, he’s shanghaied to Mars. Smythe suddenly finds himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who has been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians is at stake, and failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war.
Smythe knows nothing of the issues concerning free interplanetary trade and equal rights for aliens and cares even less, but the handsome compensation is impossible to refuse. He soon realizes, however, that he faces a lifetime masquerade if the real politician never shows up.
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"Actors, Martians, pretending to be the President (well, presidential hopeful)...What's not to love? "
— Janine (5 out of 5 stars)
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“In Double Star you can smell and feel and practically taste the future.”
— Chicago Tribune -
“The story moves at a sharp pace, helped along by Heinlein’s slick prose and the kind of wry good humor demonstrated when he describes the multiconsonant names he has ascribed to his Martians as sounding like ‘a leaking faucet.’”
— The Guardian (London) -
“In this intricately plotted novel of interplanetary intrigue, Heinlein is at his best.”
— St. Louis Post-Dispatch -
“Not too far flung nor far fetched.”
— Kirkus Reviews
Double Star Listener Reviews
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" Enjoyed this one. What does it mean and what does it take to impersonate another person? "
— Mckinley, 4/12/2011 -
" the movie Dave, in space. Or rather, the movie Dave was "Double Star," on earth. Come to think of it, if Double Star is ever made into a movie, Kevin Kline would play the part of Lorenzo perfectly. "
— Matt, 2/27/2011 -
" No better than decent. The protagonist and narrator is interesting and unique, but the story is unexceptional. Nothing really grips you about it. <br/> <br/>Not bad, but Heinlein has done much better. Must have been a weak year for it to have won the Hugo. "
— Randtat, 1/24/2011 -
" It was good and I liked it but it lacked something. It felt a bit flat at the end. I also didn't really get into the whole martian thing. Otherwise readable. "
— Kathy, 10/14/2010 -
" Fun fast read, good primer for my intended re-read of Ender's Game. "
— Mark, 9/7/2010 -
" An enjoyable little sci-fi novel, with some characteristic Heinleinian insights into politics. "
— Frank, 9/4/2010
About Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) is widely recognized as one of the greatest science fiction authors of all time, a status confirmed in 1974 when the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America gave him their first Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement. A four-time Hugo Award winner, he is best known for such works as Starship Troopers, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, and the sensational bestseller Stranger in a Strange Land. Several of his books were New York Times bestsellers, and his worldwide bestsellers have been translated into twenty-two languages.
About Bronson Pinchot
Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.