Starseed - Hardcover

Spider Robinson; Jeanne Robinson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0441783570 ISBN 13: 9780441783571

Publisher: Ace Hardcover, 1991

Synopsis

To revitalize her body and continue her successful dance career, Rain McLeod applies and is accepted to Top Step, an orbiting academy where applicants are trained to be Stardancers

About this title

About the Author:

Spider Robinson is renowned for his Callahan's Place series of bestselling novels. With his late wife, Jeanne, he wrote the award-winning Stardance series. As an audiobook reader of his own and others' work, he has won the Earphones Award and been a finalist for the Audie Awards. In 2008, he won the Robert A. Heinlein Award for Lifetime Excellence in Literature.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Sequel to Stardance, the Robinsons' combination of dance, aliens, and politics in orbit above 21st-century Earth. Morgan McLeod is a dancer at the end of her career who still desperately wants to dance. Her only option is to apply to the orbiting, gravityless, hollowed-out asteroid Top Step; here, she learns how to survive in space and ultimately seeks union with a red-goo symbiote from Titan, thus becoming a Stardancer, able to live, work, and create indefinitely in space. Her narrative describes her progress in close detail from the time she leaves Earth until her training is interrupted by a missile attack on Top Step, directed from Earth by fanatical anti-space, anti-alien elements. Morgan's lover, Robert, a Chinese who at once flees back to Earth, becomes her prime suspect; she will track him down and defeat the evil conspiracy of which he is a part by means of a sudden total gestalt involving all Stardancers. Some fairly convincing exposition, an overdose of Zen, and a tiny plot tossed in almost as an afterthought. The female characters giggle too much. Still, Stardance fans will want to investigate. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ace Hardcover
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0441783570
• ISBN 13: 9780441783571
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 247