{"id":385,"date":"2006-09-23T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2006\/09\/23\/book-review-variable-star\/"},"modified":"2006-09-23T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-24T01:10:00","slug":"book-review-variable-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2006\/09\/23\/book-review-variable-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review &#8211; Variable Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Master (both of them!) at his best.  Spider Robinson did a fantastic job fleshing out RAH&apos;s outline &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/variablestarbook.com\/index.html\">Variable Star<\/a> has the spirit and flavor of the best of Heinlein&apos;s work.<\/p>\n<p>I was a little worried at the first couple of chapters; they were good sci-fi, but the contemporary references were a bit jarring.  But soon enough I was totally immersed in a true Heinlein universe.  The book was quite deftly inserted into Heinlein&apos;s Future History timeline, with a chilling reference to current events bringing about the election of Nehemiah Scudder.<\/p>\n<p>If you&apos;re a hardcore Heinlein fan, it&apos;s a wonderfully rich story that will remind you of the Master throughout.  If you just love real sci-fi, it fulfills that desire just as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Master (both of them!) at his best. Spider Robinson did a fantastic job fleshing out RAH&apos;s outline &#8211; Variable Star has the spirit and flavor of the best of Heinlein&apos;s work. I was a little worried at the first couple of chapters; they were good sci-fi, but the contemporary references were a bit jarring. But soon enough I was totally immersed in a true Heinlein universe. The book was quite deftly inserted into Heinlein&apos;s Future History timeline, with a chilling reference to current events bringing about the election of Nehemiah Scudder. If you&apos;re a hardcore Heinlein fan, it&apos;s a wonderfully rich story that will remind you of the Master throughout. If you just love real sci-fi, it fulfills that desire just as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}