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This concluding novel in the Stardance Trilogy takes readers to the year 2064; Earth is enjoying an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity due to the Starmind, a universal overmind engineered by benevolent aliens. Art in all its forms flourishes, and composer Rand Porter has been offered the job of a lifetime as a shaper of visual effects and music in High Orbit for the world's most famous zero-gravity dance company. But his beloved novelist wife, Rhea Paixao, has her roots sunk deep in show more the Earth and her beloved Cape Cod. As they wrestle with their private dilemma, bizarre things-small miracles, really-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. show lessTags
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I really enjoyed Stardance and Starseed. Sure, the author and his wife have certain political inclinations - although they certainly are not the first, or only SF authors to let their beliefs bleed into their work - but in the first two books the narrative was more balanced and enjoyable.
Here, everything just goes out the window, in some cases literally. It is hammered into the reader, especially with Starseed, that some people simply can not handle zero-gee. That was the point of Top Step, and its intensive program where many people failed out and returned to Earth and it was emphasized that there was no shame in that - some people are simply born/evolved to need gravity and that becoming a Stardancer was supposed to be show more entirely voluntary, a joyful experience for those who go through it.
Hell, even in this final step, there's a handful that can't make it through Symbiosis, as is explained to Morgan at Top Step while she is learning about Symbiosis and what it does to the human mind.
Apparently the authors decided 'fuck it' with this book and everyone has to become a Stardancer whether they like it or not. Why is it that so many third books in trilogies suck? Mockingjay, Allegiant, and now this. It would have been better if Stardance/Starseed had remained a duology, since the ending of Starseed was pretty satisfactory. show less
I really enjoyed Stardance and Starseed. Sure, the author and his wife have certain political inclinations - although they certainly are not the first, or only SF authors to let their beliefs bleed into their work - but in the first two books the narrative was more balanced and enjoyable.
Here, everything just goes out the window, in some cases literally. It is hammered into the reader, especially with Starseed, that some people simply can not handle zero-gee. That was the point of Top Step, and its intensive program where many people failed out and returned to Earth and it was emphasized that there was no shame in that - some people are simply born/evolved to need gravity and that becoming a Stardancer was supposed to be show more entirely voluntary, a joyful experience for those who go through it.
Hell, even in this final step, there's a handful that can't make it through Symbiosis, as is explained to Morgan at Top Step while she is learning about Symbiosis and what it does to the human mind.
Apparently the authors decided 'fuck it' with this book and everyone has to become a Stardancer whether they like it or not. Why is it that so many third books in trilogies suck? Mockingjay, Allegiant, and now this. It would have been better if Stardance/Starseed had remained a duology, since the ending of Starseed was pretty satisfactory. show less
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Science fiction author Spider Robinson was born in the Bronx, New York on November 24, 1948. He received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the State University of New York. He began writing professionally in 1972 and has won numerous awards including three Hugos, one Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He is best known for show more his Callahan stories and for the Stardance Sequence, which he co-wrote with his wife Jeanne Robinson. He was selected by the Heinlein Prize Trust to write Variable Star, a novel based on a 1955 outline created by Robert A. Heinlein. He also worked as a book reviewer for Galaxy, Analog, and New Destinies magazines and his opinion column Future Tense has appeared in The Globe and Mail since 1996. In 2001, he released Belaboring the Obvious, a CD featuring original music. He currently lives in Bowen Island, Brisith Columbia, Canada with his wife. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1995-06
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- Rand Porter; Rhea Paixao
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