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Variable Star

Variable Star

Variable Star
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Variable Star Paperback - 2019

by Heinlein, Robert A

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Tor Books, 2019-01-15. Reprint. paperback. New. 6.27x0.67x9.35. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy.
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  • Title Variable Star
  • Author Heinlein, Robert A
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Tor Books
  • Publication date 2019-01-15
  • Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX1250305020
  • ISBN 9781250305022 / 1250305020
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
  • Size 6.27x0.67x9.35
  • Category Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Space colonies
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2020438279
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
  • Quantity available 10

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From the publisher

From Science Fiction Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein, the New York Times bestselling author of Starship Troopers, comes Variable Star, an unfinished novel originally conceived in 1955, and completed by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Spider Robinson.

When Joel Johnston first met Jinny Hamilton, it seemed like a dream come true. And when she finally agreed to marry him, he felt like the luckiest man in the universe.

There was just one small problem. He was broke. His only goal in life was to become a composer, and he knew it would take years before he was earning enough to support a family.

But Jinny wasn't willing to wait. And when Joel asked her what they were going to do for money, she gave him a most unexpected answer. She told him that her name wasn't really Jinny Hamilton---it was Jinny Conrad, and she was the granddaughter of Richard Conrad, the wealthiest man in the solar system.

And now that she was sure that Joel loved her for herself, not for her wealth, she revealed her family's plans for him---he would be groomed for a place in the vast Conrad empire and sire a dynasty to carry on the family business.

Most men would have jumped at the opportunity. But Joel Johnston wasn't most men. To Jinny's surprise, and even his own, he turned down her generous offer and then set off on the mother of all benders. And woke up on a colony ship heading out into space, torn between regret over his rash decision and his determination to forget Jinny and make a life for himself among the stars.

He was on his way to succeeding when his plans--and the plans of billions of others--were shattered by a cosmic cataclysm so devastating it would take all of humanity's strength and ingenuity just to survive.

Faithful to the spirit of Heinlein's original vision, and laced with contemporary touches that will appeal to modern readers, Variable Star is a rare treat for the Grand Master's many fans.

About the author

Robert A. Heinlein is universally acknowledged as modern science fiction's greatest author. At his death, in 1987, he left a legacy of books and stories that has profoundly influenced the course of the field for generations.

But one of Heinlein's most ambitious works was never finished. In 1955, he began work on a novel to be titled Variable Star, completing a detailed outline and making extensive notes for the book, only to set it aside to focus on other novels, including Tunnel in the Sky and the Hugo Award-winning Double Star. For more than half a century, the work lay forgotten among Heinlein's papers. Upon its rediscovery, the Robert A. Heinlein Trust selected an author to finish the work.

The author chosen was, appropriately enough, a writer The New York Times has hailed as "the New Robert Heinlein" Spider Robinson, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of such modern science fiction classics as Stardance and "Melancholy Elephants."

Profits from the book will help fund the annual $500,000 Heinlein Prize for innovation in commercial manned spaceflight, a goal Mr. Heinlein considered crucial to humanity's long-term survival.

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