Variable Star (Tor Science Fiction) | Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson

Variable Star (Tor Science Fiction) | Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson | Variable Star

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	Variable Star (Tor Science Fiction) Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson Tor Science Fiction, 2007 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 93 reviews view larger image
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A never-before-published masterpiece from science fiction?s greatest writer, rediscovered after more than half a century.

When Joel Johnston first met Jinny Hamilton, it seemed like a dream come true. And when she finally agreed to marry him, he felt like the luckiest man in the universe.
There was just one small problem. He was broke. His only goal in life was to become a composer, and he knew it would take years before he was earning enough to support a family.
But Jinny wasn?t willing to wait. And when Joel asked her what they were going to do for money, she gave him a most unexpected answer. She told him that her name wasn?t really Jinny Hamilton---it was Jinny Conrad, and she was the granddaughter of Richard Conrad, the wealthiest man in the solar system.

And now that she was sure that Joel loved her for herself, not for her wealth, she revealed her family?s plans for him---he would be groomed for a place in the vast Conrad empire and sire a dynasty to carry on the family business.

Most men would have jumped at the opportunity. But Joel Johnston wasn?t most men. To Jinny?s surprise, and even his own, he turned down her generous offer and then set off on the mother of all benders. And woke up on a colony ship heading out into space, torn between regret over his rash decision and his determination to forget Jinny and make a life for himself among the stars.

He was on his way to succeeding when his plans--and the plans of billions of others--were shattered by a cosmic cataclysm so devastating it would take all of humanity?s strength and ingenuity just to survive.

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I've waited much of my life to read this book

I became hooked on Robert Heinlein the same way that Spider Robinson did -a librarian in my small Ontario town saw me (as a very young boy) looking at non-fiction books about space and pointed me to the science fiction section. I'll love her forever.

Fast forward to university, back in the seventies, and a friend introduces me to Spider's early writings. I fell hard for Robinson's wit and style, and have read everything since.

So Variable Star, to me, is the book I waited to read all of my reading life. Is it perfect? To me, yes. I know that Spider had the chance to meet and get to know Robert Heinlein. I know that Spider probably knows Heinlein's work better than most. I suspect that, as Spider has said, Robert's spirit was hovering in Spider's office when Variable Star was being written. And I think he's pleased with the result.

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Variable Star

What a great suprise this audio book was. Written in true RAH style and read very well. Except for the first 5 min while he found his style and rythm this audio book was a pleasure to listen too. A real audio "page turner"

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