Variable Star
Format: audiobook
ASIN: B000RG1BSC
Publish date: June 1st 2007
Publisher: Blackstone
Edition language: English
"What is marriage for?" The car told her she was heading the wrong way; she reversed direction and came back past me toward its voice and pulsing beacon. "Babies, obviously." I followed her. "Bingo. Marriage is for making jolly babies, raising them up into successful predators, and then admiring the...
This may set the record for my quickest time reading a Heinlein novel. I finished reading it at about 2:30AM this morning. I would say it is safe to say that I enjoyed this novel that seems to float between revered and rejected by the Science Fiction community. In all honesty, I have trouble cons...
I love Heinlein, and I love Spider Robinson even more, so I really should love this book. It is typical Robinson (essentially, it is Robinson's work, as Heinlein had only left 7 pages of summary, and 15 index cards of notes), filled with dance and jazz and bad puns.The novel starts with a dance sce...
So far it is ok. I keep getting bogged down in the science and wish it was lighter, but I want to know how it ends, so I keep reading. It just ended. Problem kind of solved in one chapter and its over?
I've been avoiding this book since it came out. I was afraid to read it. I needn't have worried. It's a Heinlein-flavored Robinson book. A good story full of wordplay and telepathy and noble little humans. Better than I expected by a long shot, and I had reasonably high expectations hidden within th...
12 years ago
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