The Best of Bova: volume 1
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* * * Year: 2057 AD NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICAL ENGINEERING: Albert Robertus Leoh, for application of simultaneity effect to interstellar flight OSCAR/EMMY AWARD: Best dramatic film, The Godfather, Part XXVI PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION: Ernestine Wilson, The Devil Made Me Al Lubbock and Frank Troy shared an office. Not the largest in Southern California’s entertainment industry, but adequate for their needs. Ankle-deep carpeting. Holographic displays inst...ead of windows. Earthquake-proof building.
Al looked like a rangy, middle-aged cowboy in his rumpled blue jumpsuit. Frank wore a traditional Wall Street vested suit of golden brown, neat and precise as an accountant’s entry. His handsome face was tanned; his body had the trimness of an inveterate tennis player.
Al played tennis, too, but he won games instead of losing weight.
The walls of their office were covered with plaques and shelves bearing row after row of awards—a glittering array of silver and gold plated statuettes.MoreLess
* * * Year: 2057 AD NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICAL ENGINEERING: Albert Robertus Leoh, for application of simultaneity effect to interstellar flight OSCAR/EMMY AWARD: Best dramatic film, The Godfather, Part XXVI PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION: Ernestine Wilson, The Devil Made Me Al Lubbock and Frank Troy shared an office. Not the largest in Southern California’s entertainment industry, but adequate for their needs. Ankle-deep carpeting. Holographic displays inst...ead of windows. Earthquake-proof building.
Al looked like a rangy, middle-aged cowboy in his rumpled blue jumpsuit. Frank wore a traditional Wall Street vested suit of golden brown, neat and precise as an accountant’s entry. His handsome face was tanned; his body had the trimness of an inveterate tennis player.
Al played tennis, too, but he won games instead of losing weight.
The walls of their office were covered with plaques and shelves bearing row after row of awards—a glittering array of silver and gold plated statuettes.MoreLess
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