"Robert A. Heinlein & Spider Robinson - Variable Star" - читать интересную книгу автора (Heinlein Robert A)

813‘.54—dc22 2006006865

First Edition: September 2006

Printed in the United States of America

0987654321




For the women without whom none of this would have been necessary:

Bam, Evelyn, Ginny, Jeanne, Amy, Terri Luanna, Ruth, Kate, and Eleanor




Table of Contents
Editor’s Preface
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty
Twenty-one
Twenty-two
Afterward
 Editor’s Preface
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In Robert A. Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land there is a story about a Martian artist so
focused on his work that he fails to notice his own death, and completes the piece anyway. To
Martians, who don’t go anywhere when they die but simply become Old Ones, the burning
question was: should this work be judged by the standards used for art by the living, or for art