Book.

[kyrielle]

The library got a copy of Heinlein/Robinson's Variable Star free, observed I had a hold, and provided it to me. I picked it up today.

What am I still doing up at this hour? I just finished it.

Either this is a really, REALLY good book, on a par with Heinlein's best (my estimation), or I'm just way over-esteeming it because it's been too long since I've read a book of this sort. It's not perfect, parts didn't work, but on the whole...on the whole, wow.

I'll probably reread it, either after Scott's read it or by stealing it back, before I return it. But yes, I did read it all in one night tonight.

And now I really had better get to bed, but wow.

Comments

[canyoncat.livejournal.com]

I could have sworn I had already read a book by that title... by Heinlein... years ago. Since this is obviously new I must be thinking of something else. I love Heinlein though and will definitely have to pick up a copy of this.

[pheon.livejournal.com]

I read it a couple of weeks ago and enjoyed it. I didn't think of it as a "wow," though.

It was pretty clearly laid out as one of his juveniles, partway on the way to his adult novels. What was interesting to me was the interaction of Spyder Robinson's skill with dialog and the Heinlein plot. No one could create the flavor of a society better than Heinlein and I saw little of that in Spyder's writing. And there are few who do dialog better than Spyder, but I didn't see as much of that as usual. Probably because he was trying to write as Heinlein.

All in all, a good read.