Stardance

Name: Stardance
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Spider Robinson
ISBN: 9781433244858

Author: Spider Robinson

Narrator: Spider Robinson

Unabridged: 7 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 04/01/2008

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Shara Drummond was a gifted dancer and a brilliant choreographer, but she 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. The Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning Stardance series pioneered the concept of zero gravity dance, which even sparked the interest of NASA and shortlisted coauthor Jeanne Robinson for a seat on a space shuttle to become the first actual freefall dancer in space. Though the Challenger explosion cancelled that dream, now Jeanne is being given a second chance to choreograph dance in spaceon film. See www.stardancemovie.com for more.

About Spider Robinson

Spider 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel on May 11, 2017

Reading this book, more than any other experience I've had in my life, helped me understand why people hated hippies so much. Every one of the main characters group of friends is a radical free loving zero-g erotic dancer, and everyone in space does pot all the time, and if you can't see that as the......more

Goodreads review by Megan on August 03, 2014

This review was initially written in 2012. It is not my birthday! This is my birthday present to myself - to review one of my favourite books by my all-time favourite author. It is made more poignant by the last shuttle launch yesterday, which made me cry like a baby. Note: The rest of this review has......more

Goodreads review by Craig on August 23, 2021

Stardance is probably Robinson's best known book, quite deservedly so. The original novella won both the Hugo and Nebula for best of the year when it was published in 1977, and I actually quite prefer that version to this expanded novel. It caused quite a furor among the fans of the field when it ap......more

Goodreads review by M.M. Strawberry on November 24, 2020

Having read a couple of Spider's stories previously (Callahan's Crosstime Saloon and Callahan's Lady) I had high expectations for this, and I was not disappointed. I mean, no, the book wasn't perfect - I give it 4.25/5 stars, but it was still a pretty enjoyable book and thought-provoking, which is w......more

Goodreads review by Christina K on May 28, 2023

Any future book written in 1977 is not only going to get a few things wrong, but have a very different sensibility. Fortunately, this book is not handicapped by that, because of its focus on dance and music as a way to communicate-- with aliens. When you think about that, it makes sense. Our narrato......more