![]() ![]() Rather than looking for someone to take over, Double Star is about replacing the leader to quell potential chaos. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain - so far the closest, but hugely different. The Duplicate by William Sleator - but not this plot. Some stories about doubles: The Double by Dostoyevsky - but not this plot. It did send me on a long deep dive into stories about doubles to see if there’s a kind of original of originals for this basic plotline. And it’s also Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa. This book is basically Dave, at least in the broad strokes. ![]() It takes place mostly on Mars, which led me to wonder if this is the same Mars of Stranger in a Strange Land, but mostly I was thinking about how much I didn’t care that much about the politics of the world. This is a novel about doubles, but more specifically this is a novel about an actor who gets hired to replace a dying and/or incapacitated politician. ![]()
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