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Lone Star Planet
- Author
- H. Beam Piper
- Narrator
- Arthur Vincet
- Publisher
- Audioliterature
- Publish Date
- 23 March 2017
- Run Time
- 3 hours 21 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- H. Beam Piper
- Narrator
- Arthur Vincet
- Duration
- 3 hours 21 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 March 2017
- ISBN
- 4250887863502
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Audioliterature
- Genre
- Science fiction: aliens / UFOs
Synopsis
Lone Star Planet is a science fiction novel by H. Beam Piper. It presents a world on which the assassination of politicians is accepted practice. After a political gaffe, our hero Stephen Silk is assigned to be the Solar League's new ambassador to the people of CapellaIV, New Texas. The position is open because the previous ambassador, Silas Cumshaw, was assassinated. On the starship taking him to his new posting Silk meets his secretary/bodyguard, a native New Texan named Hoddy Ringo. The briefing books that were given to him tell him little about the New Texans and their culture and the contents of the trunk that was put aboard the ship for him appall him: contrary to the practices of the Consular Service, he will have to dress in native costume and carry a pair of automatic pistols in ejection holsters. Evidence he finds while surreptitiously searching Hoddy's quarters implies that he's being set up for assassination, with the approval of the Consular Service...
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