Spider does Heinlein
I just finished reading "Variable Star," the novel that Robert A. Heinlein outlined in 1955 and Spider Robinson wrote. It was amazing. It has many of the classic features of a Heinlein novel (starts at a dance, has a heroine who is not whom she seems, a long starship journey and some moderately long diatribes about future history), but is written with Spider's style (lots of different characters and different interactions between them, lots of drugs, plus goats and why it isn't a good idea to sneeze around them, especially in microgravity). It made me laugh. It made me cry.
The only sf lovers who shouldn't read this are Heinlein purists. And if you like Spider, you should read "Variable Star." In the postlude, Spider says that he was visited by R.A.H.'s ghost while he was writing it. I believe him.
The only sf lovers who shouldn't read this are Heinlein purists. And if you like Spider, you should read "Variable Star." In the postlude, Spider says that he was visited by R.A.H.'s ghost while he was writing it. I believe him.