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 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.
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"The Robinsons' trilogy is one of the finest pieces of speculative fiction written in the past twenty years. Positive science fiction is sadly rare and this is a delightfully accessible series of books with great mixes of humour, heart and humanity. "
— Apollo (5 out of 5 stars)
“Not surprisingly, the novel features the authors’ usual well-drawn characters.”
— Publishers Weekly“This final book of the Stardance trilogy will best be appreciated by readers of the prior books.”
— Midwest Book Review“The Robinsons’ novels are a wonderful antidote to cynicism and despair…They are permeated with a sense of tolerance, compassion, and joyfulness.”
— Georgia Straight" This trilogy (particularly the second book) brought to life my ideal world. Plus Spider Robinson is really fun to read. "
— Lindsey, 2/15/2013" Reread numerous times. Love it so much, that I bought it, again, for my kindle! "
— ladymurmur, 10/8/2012" just when you thought sci-fi didn't have a heart... "
— Shanta, 6/14/2011Spider Robinson is renowned for his Callahan’s Place series of bestselling novels. With his late wife, Jeanne, he wrote the award-winning Stardance series. As an audiobook reader of his own and others’ work, he has won the Earphones Award and been a finalist for the Audie Awards. In 2008, he won the Robert A. Heinlein Award for Lifetime Excellence in Literature.
Jeanne Robinson (1948–2010) was a writer, choreographer, dancer, teacher, and lay-ordained Buddhist monk. She was artistic director of Halifax’s Nova Dance Theatre for eight years and choreographed thirty original works. Her Hugo and Nebula winning 1976 novella Stardance pioneered the concept of zero gravity dance, and inspired three novels.