About this title: This novel, in which an out-of-work actor is signed on to travel to Mars and impersonate a kidnapped politician, won Heinlein his first Hugo Award in 1956.
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Edition: "First Printing, October, 1957" as stated.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
ISBN-13:9780451014443ISBN:0451014448
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Free upgrade to First Class mail (for one book). Older book with edgewear and pages tanning due to age. Still a good reader. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780345330130ISBN:0345330137
Description: Poor. No dust jacket as issued. Pages clean and odor free, some wear on the spine, some bends on the back cover. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 243 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very good. This book is in very good condition, with slight handling wear. Interior pages clean and unmarked, with some page tanning. Available for immediate shipment. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1957
Description: Good. Binding is tight and square, pgs are clean and unmarked. This is a very nice paperback copy. Light edge and corner wear. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! Careful packaging and fast shipping. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1957
Description: Good + DOUBLE STAR by Robert A. Heinlein. Signet, 1957. Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDust Jacket: . NOTES: Stated first printing. Showing light exterior wear/creasing, overall clean and tight with no owner markings. Images available upon request. Please email us with any questions. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1957
ISBN-13:9780451024190ISBN:0451024192
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. some edgewear, sm. chip at ULC. cover reflective. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1964
ISBN-13:9780451126955ISBN:0451126955
Description: Very Good. DOUBLE STAR by Robert A. Heinlein. Signet, 1964. Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDust Jacket: . NOTES: 3rd printing. Showing very light exterior wear/creasing, overall clean and tight with no owner markings. Images available upon request. Please email us with any questions. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Del Rey
Date Published: 10/1957
ISBN-13:9780451126955ISBN:0451126955
Description: Good. 0451126955. No spine creases, does have hinge crease, edgewear with small chips. Pages tight but tanning. Signet T5566. 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 ... read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: New American Library, New York
Date Published: 1957
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. softcover; solid binding; no marking or highlighting within text; VB46. 128 p. 22 cm. Signet 451-T5566.. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good + DOUBLE STAR by Robert A. Heinlein. Signet, 1964. Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDust Jacket: . NOTES: 3rd printing. Showing light exterior wear/creasing, overall clean and tight with no owner markings. Images available upon request. Please email us with any questions. read more
Binding: 9th ptg
Publisher: Signet Books P3669, NY
Date Published: 1957, OCT
Description: Twins faces cover art. GOOD Condition, cover rubs. 4x7" Paper Covers 128pg GREEN titles on White spine. "SHANGHAIED TO MARS. DANGEROUS ROLE FOR ACTOR.. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: SIGNET
Date Published: 1957
Description: Very Good. No names, no marks, no stickers. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean with light tan. Slight stain on front cover. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
"Loved it. Beyond the 1950s view of the future (rocket ships and Martians, no joke), this book is just an intense and funny view at what might make someone take up the mantle of a messiah... whether or not he wants to."
"Very enjoyable little read. It did have some annoyingly dated sexism, but as it was written more than 50 years ago, in 1956, I'll overlook it a bit. I was sad the Martians didn't have a bigger role in the second half of the book."
"This reminded me of the Stainless Steel Rat books. Also the movie Dave. The narrator is a star, in the sense of an actor, and a double for a politician. Heinlein did some things much better than other writers of his time. Even though it's just a silly adventure story, he manages to work in a lot of commentary on political life and he very cleverly makes the narrator's voice change over time as he begins to identify with the person he is playing. The big drawback of the story was the awful characterization of the only woman in the book. I imagined a different ending to the book. SPOILER ALERT The Martians are fooled by the actor, and adopt him into their tribe thinking he's the politician. And that's it-- he's gotten away with it. I think it might have been better if the Martians later turned out to have known exactly what was going on, but that in their culture, such a replacement was a perfectly sensible thing that happened all the time. They would have taken it as a gesture of respect. This would have been an exploration of alien ways of thinking, instead of just the white man pulling a fast one on the noble indigenes."
"This was a great little quick read -I am going through the chronological order of Hugo Award (sci-fi/fantasy) winners (more or less). For this book, the sci-fi is mostly just the setting -anyone could appreciate the story. Sometimes the advancements of science aren't what they're cracked up to be. I mean how can we imagine a nation of Martians given what we know today? Heinlein, writing in the 50s, did not have that problem. Another nice little point of this story is its emphasis on human and "non-human" rights (though it still has a taint of mild chauvinism in it)."
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