The Stardance Books Spider collaborated with his wife Jeanne on the zero-gravity dance novella "Stardance." He didn't initially intend a collaboration. He needed to write something quickly for money to get back to Nova Scotia, so he decided to follow the old adage "write what you know." Jeanne was a dancer, so he used that as his starting point. Normally Spider doesn't like others to see works in progress, but Jeanne saw what was happening and began offering advice, not only about dance, but about the characters. Spider recognized a good thing when he saw it, and the collaboration was born. "Stardance" won a Nebula award in 1977 and a Hugo award in 1978. It was expanded into the novel of the same name published in 1979, followed, also in collaboration with Jeanne, by the novels Starseed (1991) and Starmind (1995). | |
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The Stardance Trilogy An omnibus of Stardance, Starseed, and Starmind. The trilogy combines the beauty of zero-gravity dance, contact with very alien beings, and the transformation of selected humans into the space-dwelling and telepathic Stardancers. |
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Stardance Shara Drummond combines the beauty of Venus de Milo with dance talent greater than Pavlova's. But she's too big, and will never be more than an understudy. So she goes into space and creates zero gravity dance. When the aliens, beings of pure light who dance between the stars, appear, Shara must prove that the human race is ... human with her new form of dance. |
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Starseed Rain McLeod danced on Earth for 32 years until she couldn't dance any more. She tried living without dance, and when that didn't work, she traveled to Top Step, the captive asteriod and home of the Stardance Foundation, to become a Stardancer, a human joined with the alien symbiote that allows humans to live in space. |
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The Star Dancers This book combines Stardance and Starseed and was published at a time when earlier editions of them had gone out of print. |
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Starmind The Starmind is the telepathic joining of all the Stardancers. In 2064, Earth is enjoying peace and prosperity thanks to the Starmind. Composer Rand Porter travels to High Orbit to become a Shaper of music and visual effects for the Stardance Company. While there, he finds himself caught up in a conspiracy to destroy the Starmind. |
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The Lifehouse Trilogy Released in December 2007, this includes Mind Killer, Time Pressure, and Lifehouse. |
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Mindkiller Wireheading, a method of delivering a trickle of current to the brain's pleasure center, can be an addiction, a way to commit suicide, or a means of mind control. Part of this book appeared as the novella "God Is an Iron," now collected in a book of the same name. |
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Time Pressure Sam lives alone on Nova Scotia's Fundy Shore in the early 1970s (much like Spider himself at the time). In the middle of a storm, he witnesses the arrival of Rachel, a beautiful time traveler. She's arrived to collect data on the human race's past, but Sam fears she may end up destroying it. |
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Deathkiller This volume combines Mindkiller and Time Pressure. |
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Lifehouse Wally and Moira, two major science fiction fans, jump at the chance to help out a time traveler. Only he's not a time traveler. And then it gets weird. |
