Stardance

1979 novel by Spider Robinson

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Stardance is a science fiction novel by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson, published by Dial Press in 1979 as part of its Quantum science fiction line. The novel's opening segment originally appeared in Analog in 1977 as the novella "Stardance", followed by the serialized conclusion, "Stardance II", in Analog in 1978.^[1]

After the Dial hardcover appeared in 1979, Stardance was reprinted in paperback by Dell Books in 1980, followed by reissues from Tor Books and Baen Books over the next decade. Baen compiled the novel, together with its sequel, Starseed, in a mass market paperback omnibus, The Star Dancers, in 1997; in 2006, Baen published a hardcover omnibus, The Stardance Trilogy, adding a third novel, Starmind.

Reception

Algis Budrys declared Stardance to be "a reading experience which genuinely evokes a basic human feeling ... that within each of us dwells something glorious that is beyond mortal error, is the seed of an angel," concluding that "Stardance sweeps over the reader with the uncommon power attainable only by the social extrapolations of SF, and then rarely."^[2]

Awards

The novella "Stardance" won both the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as the annual Locus Poll. The novel Stardance placed fourth in the Locus Poll two years later.^[3]

References

^ ISFDB publishing history
^ "Books", F&SF, October 1979, p.34-38
^ The Locus Index to SF Awards Archived 2007-02-25 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Stardance official movie website (archived 13 January 2016)
Stardance movie blog
Spider and Jeanne Robinson bio

Hugo Award for Best Novella

Retro Hugos

Who Goes There? by Don A. Stuart (1939)
If This Goes On— by Robert A. Heinlein (1941)
Waldo by Robert A. Heinlein (1943)
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1944)
Killdozer! by Theodore Sturgeon (1945)
Animal Farm by George Orwell (1946)
The Man Who Sold the Moon by Robert A. Heinlein (1951)
A Case of Conscience by James Blish (1954)

1968–1980

Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip José Farmer /Weyr Search by Anne McCaffrey (1968)
Nightwings by Robert Silverberg (1969)
Ship of Shadows by Fritz Leiber (1970)
Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber (1971)
The Queen of Air and Darkness by Poul Anderson (1972)
The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin (1973)
The Girl Who Was Plugged In by James Tiptree Jr. (1974)
A Song for Lya by George R. R. Martin (1975)
Home Is the Hangman by Roger Zelazny (1976)
By Any Other Name by Spider Robinson / Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr. (1977)
Stardance by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson (1978)
The Persistence of Vision by John Varley (1979)
Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear (1980)

1981–1990

Lost Dorsai by Gordon R. Dickson (1981)
The Saturn Game by Poul Anderson (1982)
Souls by Joanna Russ (1983)
Cascade Point by Timothy Zahn (1984)
Press Enter by John Varley (1985)
24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai by Roger Zelazny (1986)
Gilgamesh in the Outback by Robert Silverberg (1987)
Eye for Eye by Orson Scott Card (1988)
The Last of the Winnebagos by Connie Willis (1989)
The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold (1990)

1991–2000

The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman (1991)
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress (1992)
Barnacle Bill the Spacer by Lucius Shepard (1993)
Down in the Bottomlands by Harry Turtledove (1994)
Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge by Mike Resnick (1995)
The Death of Captain Future by Allen Steele (1996)
Blood of the Dragon by George R. R. Martin (1997)
...Where Angels Fear to Tread by Allen Steele (1998)
Oceanic by Greg Egan (1999)
The Winds of Marble Arch by Connie Willis (2000)

2001–2010

The Ultimate Earth by Jack Williamson (2001)
Fast Times at Fairmont High by Vernor Vinge (2002)
Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2003)
The Cookie Monster by Vernor Vinge (2004)
The Concrete Jungle by Charles Stross (2005)
Inside Job by Connie Willis (2006)
A Billion Eves by Robert Reed (2007)
All Seated on the Ground by Connie Willis (2008)
The Erdmann Nexus by Nancy Kress (2009)
Palimpsest by Charles Stross (2010)

2011–2020

The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (2011)
The Man Who Bridged the Mist by Kij Johnson (2012)
The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson (2013)
Equoid by Charles Stross (2014)
(No award given) (2015)
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (2016)
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (2017)
All Systems Red by Martha Wells (2018)
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (2019)
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (2020)

2021–present

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo (2021)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (2022)
Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire (2023)

v t e Locus Award for Best Novella
1970	The Gold at the Starbow's End by Frederik Pohl (1973) The Death of Doctor Island by Gene Wolfe (1974) Born with the Dead by Robert Silverberg (1975) The Storms of Windhaven by Lisa Tuttle and George R.R. Martin (1976) The Samurai and the Willows by Michael Bishop (1977) Stardance by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson (1978) The Persistence of Vision by John Varley (1979)
1980s	Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear (1980) Nightflyers by George R.R. Martin (1981) Blue Champagne by John Varley (1982) Souls by Joanna Russ (1983) Her Habilene Husband by Michael Bishop (1984) Press Enter by John Varley (1985) The Only Neat Thing To Do by James Tiptree Jr. (1986) R&R by Lucius Shepard (1987) The Secret Sharer by Robert Silverberg (1988) The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter by Lucius Shepard (1989)
1990s	The Father of Stones by Lucius Shepard (1990) A Short, Sharp Shock by Kim Stanley Robinson (1991) The Gallery of His Dreams by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (1992) Barnacle Bill the Spacer by Lucius Shepard (1993) Mefisto in Onyx by Harlan Ellison (1994) Forgiveness Day by Ursula K. Le Guin (1995) Remake by Connie Willis (1996) Bellwether by Connie Willis (1997) Where Angels Fear to Tread by Allen Steele (1998) Oceanic by Greg Egan (1999)
2000s	Orphans of the Helix by Dan Simmons (2000) Radiant Green Star by Lucius Shepard (2001) The Finder by Ursula K. Le Guin (2002) The Tain by China Miéville (2003) The Cookie Monster by Vernor Vinge (2004) Golden City Far by Gene Wolfe (2005) Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link (2006) Missile Gap by Charles Stross (2007) After the Siege by Cory Doctorow (2008) Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link (2009)
2010s	The Women of Neill Gwynne's by Kage Baker (2010) The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (2011) Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente (2012) After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress (2013) Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente (2014) Yesterday's Kin by Nancy Kress (2015) Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds (2016) Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (2017) All Systems Red by Martha Wells (2018) Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (2019)
2020s	This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar (2020) Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark (2021) Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (2022) A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (2023)
Best Novel (1971–1981) Best SF Novel (1980–present) Best Fantasy Novel (1978–present) Best First Novel (1981–present) Best Horror Novel (1989–1997, 1999, 2017–present) Best Young Adult Book (2003–present) Best Novella (1973–present) Best Novelette (1975–present) Best Short Story (1971–present)

v t e Nebula Award for Best Novella
1966–1980	The Saliva Tree by Brian W. Aldiss and He Who Shapes by Roger Zelazny (1966) The Last Castle by Jack Vance (1967) Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock (1968) Dragonrider by Anne McCaffrey (1969) A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison (1970) Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber (1971) The Missing Man by Katherine Maclean (1972) A Meeting with Medusa by Arthur C. Clarke (1973) The Death of Doctor Island by Gene Wolfe (1974) Born with the Dead by Robert Silverberg (1975) Home Is the Hangman by Roger Zelazny (1976) Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr. (1977) Stardance by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson (1978) The Persistence of Vision by John Varley (1979) Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear (1980)
1981–2000	Unicorn Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas (1981) The Saturn Game by Poul Anderson (1982) Another Orphan by John Kessel (1983) Hardfought by Greg Bear (1984) Press Enter by John Varley (1985) Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg (1986) R&R by Lucius Shepard (1987) The Blind Geometer by Kim Stanley Robinson (1988) The Last of the Winnebagos by Connie Willis (1989) The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold (1990) The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman (1991) Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress (1992) City of Truth by James Morrow (1993) The Night We Buried Road Dog by Jack Cady (1994) Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge by Mike Resnick (1995) Last Summer at Mars Hill by Elizabeth Hand (1996) Da Vinci Rising by Jack Dann (1997) Abandon in Place by Jerry Oltion (1998) Reading the Bones by Sheila Finch (1999) Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang (2000)
2001–2020	Goddesses by Linda Nagata (2001) The Ultimate Earth by Jack Williamson (2002) Bronte's Egg by Richard Chwedyk (2003) Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2004) The Green Leopard Plague by Walter Jon Williams (2005) Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link (2006) Burn by James Patrick Kelly (2007) Fountain of Age by Nancy Kress (2008) The Spacetime Pool by Catherine Asaro (2009) The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker (2010) The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window by Rachel Swirsky (2011) The Man Who Bridged the Mist by Kij Johnson (2012) After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress (2013) The Weight of the Sunrise by Vylar Kaftan (2014) Yesterday's Kin by Nancy Kress (2015) Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (2016) Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (2017) All Systems Red by Martha Wells (2018) The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard (2019) This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (2020)
2021–present	Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark (2021) And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed (2022) Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk (2023)