Heinlein's Last Novel Coming in September

Frightened_Turtle writes "Robert Heinlein's last novel, Variable Star , will be released in September. Completed by Spider Robinson at the behest of Heinlein's estate, the novel is based on the notes and outline created by Heinlein for the novel over 50 years ago. It was set aside and forgotten when Heinlein went to work on other projects. The story follows the life of Joel Johnston who — after having a fallout with his girlfriend and going on a bender — wakes up on a starship bound for the stars. Spider Robinson has done an excellent job maintaining Heinlein's style and flow throughout the novel. Want to check out the story for yourself? You can download the first eight chapters online from the 'Excerpts' link on the site as they are released over the next few weeks."

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What is coming next

[UR30]

A new play by Shakespeare? Poems by Poe? Nonfiction by Carl Sagan?

Same writing style?

[OzPeter]

So it will be full of gratuitous sex in every possible combination of the following?

Hetrosexual
Homosexual
Incest
Self
2-way
3-way
Orgy

And occur with in the realms of:
This universe (now)
This universe (time travel, forward and backward)
Parallel universes

Between people who are:
Real
Imagined
Living
Life-After-Death
Multiple people sharing the same skull

And that's just with the human characters. Heaven knows what interpsecies liasons will occur.

Boy did I read too much Heinlein when I was young.

Re:Same writing style?

[kalirion]

Wait, are we talking about Piers Anthony now?

Re:Same writing style?

[Red Flayer]

Nah, he's referring to what would happen if William S. Burroughs had actually written everything written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Except he left out the drugs.

Re:Same writing style?

[sammy baby]

Heinlein wrote some good stories, but dude, his characters had a habit of fucking anything that moved (or were about to move, or might be moving in an overarching multiverse), and some things that didn't move. Kinda makes me glad I somehow missed his books when I was a teenager. My head probably would have spun off my neck like a top.

Are you kidding? That's why I was thrilled to find his stuff as a teenager.

Re:Does that mean no sex scenes?

[Escherial]

But were they having sex scenes?

Re:Does that mean no sex scenes?

[Moofie]

Yeah, because Heinlein never wrote about sex. Or drinking.

Re:The Heinlein Paradox...

[Maelwryth]

"What's the odd of someone screwing up a relationship, going on a bender, and ending up on a starship?"

They must be fairly low. I've never ended up on a star ship.

Spider

[KingEomer]

I guess that Spider Robinson truly groks Heinlein... Has anyone checked his corpse lately?

Oh no, not the hippy heinlein

[VAXcat]

Of the dozen or so Heinlein style writers extant today, it's a shame they picked the feckless hippy of the lot, Spider Robonson. I'd have vastly preferred one of the hard science Heinlein style writers (such as Varley, or maybe VInge) to the hippy dippy, dated, peace love dove style of Robinson, who wouldn't know real knowledge of physics if it knocked the bong out of his hand and spilled it all over his hand knotted macrame rug, inside his dome house.

Re:Scared, I am...

[Walt Dismal]

Few people know that Isaac Asimov anonymously wrote an operating system but put Linus Torvald's name on it. Wait ... wait .. where's my ritalin. I'm always getting mixed up without it.