{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was \u2014 as usual \u2014 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.\r\n\r\nSuddenly 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 \u2014 failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. And Smythe's own life was on the line \u2014 for if he wasn't assassinated, there was always the possibility that he might be trapped in his new role forever!"}, "covers": [14632131, 5540970, 8444514, 8704022, 8704153, 8704181, 8704183, 8704184, 11255805, 13511002, 11081418, 10481359, 13766745, 8704109], "key": "/works/OL59715W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL28641A"}}], "title": "Double Star", "subjects": ["Hugo Award Winner", "award:hugo_award=1956", "award:hugo_award=novel", "American Science fiction", "Fiction, science fiction, general", "Children's fiction", "Science fiction", "Long Now Manual for Civilization"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "genres": ["/tags/OL179T"], "latest_revision": 21, "revision": 21, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-15T22:46:15.529792"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-08-28T09:14:24.514804"}}