“Stardance” by Spider and Jeanne Robinson. NY: The Dial Press / James Wade, (1979). First printing. Quantum Science Fiction. Jacket art by Larry Kresek.
Dust jacket blurb:
"Because she was the way she was -- big, beautiful, and sexy -- there was no way on Earth Shara Drummond could become a professional dancer, in spite of her soaring genius. No way on Earth . . . but the zero-gravity environment of the orbiting Skyfac gave her the chance to create a new dimension in dance. She took that chance, though it meant catering to the whims of a perverse millionaire and being permanently exiled from her home world. And when the aliens appeared, a menacing swarm of lights from the depths of space, it was Shara who saw the only way to communicate with them -- with one last dance that repelled the threat and made her forever one with the void.
"Shara's legacy was a unique school of dance, free of the pull of Earth's gravity, in which her sister Norrey and her embittered lover Charlie explored new frontiers of movement and feeling , , , and unknowingly prepared themselves for an incredible ordeal and an unimaginable destiny.
"Stardance is a major novel of passion and adventure, of biting irony and tenderness, at once briskly entertaining and deeply moving."
“Stardance” by Spider and Jeanne Robinson. NY: The Dial Press / James Wade, (1979). First printing. Quantum Science Fiction. Jacket art by Larry Kresek.
Dust jacket blurb:
"Because she was the way she was -- big, beautiful, and sexy -- there was no way on Earth Shara Drummond could become a professional dancer, in spite of her soaring genius. No way on Earth . . . but the zero-gravity environment of the orbiting Skyfac gave her the chance to create a new dimension in dance. She took that chance, though it meant catering to the whims of a perverse millionaire and being permanently exiled from her home world. And when the aliens appeared, a menacing swarm of lights from the depths of space, it was Shara who saw the only way to communicate with them -- with one last dance that repelled the threat and made her forever one with the void.
"Shara's legacy was a unique school of dance, free of the pull of Earth's gravity, in which her sister Norrey and her embittered lover Charlie explored new frontiers of movement and feeling , , , and unknowingly prepared themselves for an incredible ordeal and an unimaginable destiny.
"Stardance is a major novel of passion and adventure, of biting irony and tenderness, at once briskly entertaining and deeply moving."