Lone Star Planet

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The account of a lesser negotiator and his first presenting on a planet of Texans whose dinosaur-sized steers must be crowded with tanks, and whose arrangement of government gets its character from Mencken’s 1924 paper “The Malevolent Jobholder,” – a framework under which the executing of a rehearsing lawmaker is viewed as legitimate manslaughter!

Book Excerpt

slaughtered inconvenience.”

So he was a protector … furthermore, I considered what else he was. A certain something, it would take him 42 years to send a radio message back to Luna, and I could monitor some other messages he sent, in letters or on tape, by ships. At long last, I interpreted my own tape, and settled down to spreading out my three weeks’ investigation seminar on my new post.

I found, nonetheless, that the entire thing could be scholarly in a couple of hours. The remainder of what I had was duplication, some of it conflicting, and everything reduced to this: