Double Star

Overview:

• Title: Double Star
• Author: Robert A. Heinlein
• Year: 1956
• Type: Novel

Synopsis:

Lorenzo Smythe, the excellent yet unemployed actor, meets Dak Broadbent in a bar on the Moon. Broadbent hires Lorenzo for an unspecified role, but Broadbent turns out to be an assistant to the famous interplanetary politician and leader of the Expansionist party: John J. Bonforte. Bonforte, however, has been kidnapped by the political opposition on Mars, and due to Lorenzo’s physical similarity to Bonforte, his staff wants Lorenzo to impersonate the politician for an important Martian ceremony.

Awards:

• 1956. Double Star Hugo, Best Novel (Win)
• 1987. Double Star Locus Poll, All-Time Best SF Novel (Nomination)
• 1998. Double Star Locus Poll, All-Time Best SF Novel before 1990 (Nomination)

Editions/Publications:

• xxxx. Double Star (Robert A. Heinlein Signet, Catalog ID: #P3669, $0.60, 128 pages, Paperback, Novel)
• 1957. Double Star (1957, Robert A. Heinlein Signet Books, ISBN-10: 0451089057, Paperback, Novel)
• 1957. Double Star (October 1957, Robert A. Heinlein Signet, Catalog ID: #S1444, $0.35, 159 pages, Paperback, Novel)
• 1976. Double Star (1976, Robert A. Heinlein Panther, ISBN-10: 0586025022, £0.50, 143 pages, Paperback, Novel)
• 1980. A Heinlein Trio (1980, Robert A. Heinlein Nelson Doubleday / SFBC, Catalog ID: #2193, 502 pages, Hardcover, Omnibus)
• 1986. Double Star (1986, Robert A. Heinlein Grafton, ISBN-10: 0586025022, L1.95, 189 pages, Paperback, Novel)
• 1986. Double Star (1986, Robert A. Heinlein Ballantine Del Rey, ISBN-10: 0345330137, $3.95, 243 pages, Paperback, Novel)
• 2001. Double Star: Library Edition (September 01, 2001, Robert A. Heinlein, Lloyd James Blackstone Audiobooks, ISBN-10: 0786195037, $24.95, unk, Novel)

Genres/Themes:

• Science Fiction (1 book)

Resources:

• Wikipedia article on Double Star