SCI-FI AUTHOR SPIDER ROBINSON IN VANCOUVER
After reading from his new novel "Variable Star," American-born, Canadian Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author Spider Robinson invites his wife Jeanne on stage to sing a song called "On our way to the Stars," co-written by David Crosby and edited online using net meetings with lap top computers after reading from his new novel "Variable Star" at the H. R. MacMillan Space Center (Planetarium) in Vancouver, British Columbia, October 22, 2006. "Variable Star" is based on a detailed outline by Robert Heinlein. (UPI Photo/Peter Tanner)
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