Variable Star

When the impossible happens - when a planet MOVES beneath your feet, and won't stop - when you look up on a gorgeous morning and see something huge fly majestically into the side of a tall building - when a man you buried shows up at your door with a six-pack - you're supposed to feel a primitive te......more

This is my third reading of Variable Star by Robert Heinlein and Spider Robinson. I enjoyed it immensely, and it in the three years since my last read managed to forget how the plot resolves and so it was like enjoying it mostly for the first time. Robert Heinlein wrote the outline and some index car......more

This is a novel that Robinson wrote from an outline and notes and fragments that were discovered among Heinlein's papers after his death. I thought Robinson was quite true to Heinlein's beliefs and voice throughout, and he did a good job of telling what would have been a minor Heinlein story. Some o......more