Starmind — Spider Robinson

TO LEAVE EARTH BEHIND . . . FOREVER?

In 2064, Rand Porter has been offered the job of a lifetime, as resident Shaper of visual effects and music for the world's most famous zero-gee dance company, at a luxury hotel in High Orbit. But those who go to space for long must remain forever as their bodies adapt irrevocably to the absence of gravity--and Rand's beloved novelist wife Rhea Paixao has her roots sunk deep in the Earth, in her beloved Cape Cod . . .

And as they wrestle with their private dilemma, bizarre things--small miracles--are beginning to occur everywhere, on Earth and throughout the entire Solar system. Little things, at first, scarcely noticed . . . but gradually their impact and frequency build. All too soon the human race--and its evolutionary successors, the space-dwelling stardancers--find themselves approaching the terrifying cusp of their shared destiny: Courage Day, an appointment made for them both a million years ago.

In this stunning capstone to the Hugo and Nebula-winning Stardance Saga, mankind meets its greatest challenge since it left the trees--a make-or-break point beyond which literally nothing, anywhere, can ever be the same again . . .