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The Stardance Trilogy omnibus of Stardance, Starseed and Starmind [Hardcover]

Spider Robinson (Author), Jeanne Robinson (Author)
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September 5, 2006
Three novels complete in one volume.

Stardance: Shara Drummond was a gifted dancer and a brilliant choreographer, but could not pursue her dream of dancing on Earth, so she went to space, creating a new art form in three dimensions. And when the aliens arrived, there was only one way to prove that the human race deserved not just to survive, but to reach the stars. The only hope was Shara, with her stardance.

Starseed: Years later, another dancer of genius faced the end of her career when her body failed her, and Rain McLeod followed Shara into space. If she joined with a symbiotic lifeform that would let her live without artificial protection in the vacuum of space, she would take a quantum leap in human evolution.

Starmind: Rand Porter has been offered the job of a lifetime, as a shaper of visual effects and music for the world's most famous zero-gravity dance company in High Orbit. But his beloved novelist wife Rhea Paixao has her roots sunk deep in the Earth, in her beloved Cape Cod. And as they wrestle with their private dilemma, bizarre things-small miracles-are beginning to occur everywhere on Earth and throughout the entire Solar System. The human race-and its evolutionary successors, the space-dwelling Stardancers-find themselves approaching the terrifying cusp of their shared destiny, an appointment made for them a million years ago, a make-or-break point beyond which nothing, anywhere, can ever be the same again.


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Award-winning author Spider Robinson is renowned for his "Callahan's Place" series of bestselling novels, the latest being Callahan's Con (Tor). With his wife, Jeanne, he has written the Hugo- and Nebula-winning "Stardance" series (Baen), now complete in one volume for the first time. He has been a favorite with readers from his earliest stories, which won him the John Campbell Award for best new writer. Since then he has garnered many other awards for his amusing, Heinlein-inspired SF, with the current total at three Hugos and a Nebula Award. He is frequently a guest at SF conventions across the US and Canada. His last book for Baen was the novel Lady Slings the Booze, an offshoot of the Callahan series.

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  • Hardcover: 752 pages
  • Publisher: Baen; 1st THUS edition (September 5, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1416520821
  • ISBN-13: 978-1416520825
  • Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #914,745 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars "This is what it is to be human...., January 7, 2007
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This a master story teller plying his trade. First we have the story of a marvelous dancer and choreographer, Sharra Drummond. Trouble is, how many six foot tall stacked ballerinas do you know? So she ends up dancing in free space, where she can only stay for a short time before the calcium starts leaching from her bones. She is about to return to Earth when aliens show up. She dances for them a dance to tell them what it is to be hum that ends "this is what it is to be human - to PERSIST." And having overstayed her time in space she reenters the atmosphere and burns up. This is the way the original novella from Analog ends. Robinson extended it, and the ending is very different. It is a sustaining story, one that I have depended on again and again (I have multiple sclerosis.)
The heroine of the second novel of the trilogy, Rain Mcleod, is a very different sort of persistent. The third novel, Starmind, is an attempt to tell the ultimate fate of humanity and the universe. The trilogy is not hard science fiction, but it is literature, and mayhap great literature. It is a largely successful attempt to define what it is to be human.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Nice Marriage of Art and Science, December 30, 2008
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I am a commercial artist. Most artists I know believe the same thing when it comes to the arts...it's all good. Still, some branches of the arts are harder to enjoy for some than others. I have never totally understood dance, but I have very much liked modern dance. Now, after reading Stardance by Jeanne and Spider Robinson, I can begin to actually embrace dance with an understanding of it from the inside out...from the dancer's perspective.

Spider Robinson, heir apparent to Robert Heinlein, mixes hard science fiction with Jeanne Robinson's knowledge of dance as a choreographer and dancer. They examine dance in 3 dimensions...in the zero g of low Earth orbit, and also touch upon the idea that dance communicates without words and is therefore excellent for communication with beings from another world. A current pop song by the Killers called 'Human' has a line in it's chorus that asks, "Are we Human, or are we Dancers?" I think they must have read this wonderful, Hugo winning novella, because the answer is, of course, both. Stardance is the first in the trilogy, and I now look forward to reading the next two installments, Starseed and Starmind.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A stellar (pardon the pun) collection, February 18, 2008
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The pinnacle of Spider and Jeanne's, though not Spider's, collaboration. A wonderful tale that will appeal to the idealistic and optimistic among us. Great for adolescents and an uplifting refresher for adults.
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