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Jeanne Robinson


Stardance

Stardance

Stardance

Jeanne Robinson
Spider Robinson

Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award winning novella.

Shara, a gifted choreographer and dancer, can't find work. Together with Charlie, a camera man who wants to help Shara achieve her dream, they discover a new way for her to dance: in zero gravity... from space! When an alien force invades, it is up to Shara to find a way to communicate and save Earth.

The story originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, March 1977. The story Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, March 1977. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7 (1978), edited by Terry Carr, Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Seventh Annual Collection (1978), edited by Gardner Dozois, Nebula Winners Thirteen (1980), edited by Samuel R. Delany and The Hugo Winners, Volume 4: (1976-79) (1985), edited by Isaac Asimov. The story is included in the collection God Is an Iron and Other Stories (2002). It is incorporated in the fixup novel Stardance (1979).

Stardance

Stardance

Stardance: Book 1

Spider Robinson
Jeanne Robinson

Shara Drummond was a gifted dancer and a brilliant choreographer, but could not pursue her dream of dancing on Earth, so she went to space, creating a new art form in three dimensions. And when the aliens arrived, there was only one way to prove that the human race deserved not just to survive, but to reach the stars. The only hope was Shara, with her stardance.

Starseed

Starseed

Stardance: Book 2

Spider Robinson
Jeanne Robinson

When a personal tragedy destroys her hopes for fame as a dancer on Earth, Rain McLeod volunteers for the Starseed Foundation, a symbiotic lifeform that enables her to defy the laws of gravity in space.

Starmind

Starmind

Stardance: Book 3

Spider Robinson
Jeanne Robinson

With the help of the benevolent Starmind, the planet Earth has finally achieved peace and prosperity, but a terrorist sect, threatened by the Starmind, plots to destroy it before the human race approaches its final evolution.

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