The golden globe john varley6/30/2023 ![]() Now all Sparky has to do is find a way to scrape together enough cash to get to Luna before the play starts while avoiding a seemingly unstoppable (and unkillable) Charonese hitman. ![]() Sparky wires Polichinelli that he's interested, and Polichinelli tells him the part is his. The famous director Kaspara Polichinelli of Luna is planning a performance of King Lear, and he's short a lead to take on the title role. As he's making his getaway, he learns something astonishing. There’s a lot of humor plenty of theatrical extravagance an engrossing novel by one. His galactic roamings are bringing him closer to home, closer to justiceand closer to the truth of his strange and prolonged existence. Sparky decides to skip the outer burgs for the more hospitable environs of Pluto, but things only get worse when he runs afoul of the notoriously unforgiving Charonese Mafia. All the universe is a stage, and Sparky Valentine is its itinerant thespianand a wanted man. Sparky's in the midst of a whirlwind theatrical tour designed to bring a bit of culture to the frozen desolation of the outer solar system when bad luck strikes in the form of a gumshoe hot on his tail. Not that you could tell by looking at the old ham, who for some reason never seems to age-or stay out of trouble. ![]() Sparky Valentine is a former child star turned down-on-his-luck thespian who's just reached the grand old age of 100. ![]()
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