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the Kingdom of Lo and the Festival of Impermanence in the quarterly journalTricycle; Murray Louis for
continuing to help us believe that meaningful words can be written about dance; Barbara Bourget and Jay
Hirabayashi for the inspirationalbutoh -influenced dance of Kokoro, and Lafcadio Hearn for preserving
and translating the eerily appropriatehauta found in Chapter 20.
We also thank Tenshin Zenki (Reb Anderson), Zoketsu Norman Fischer, Herb Varley, Robert and
Virginia Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Jon Singer, Jordin and Mary Kay Kare, Greg McKinnon, David
Myers, Dr. Thomas O'Regan, Marie Guthrie and all the members of Jeanne's women's group for an
assortment of things too numerous, blessed, shady, trivial, profound, personal or otherwise
unmentionable to mention.
Ongoing thanks go to our beloved agent Eleanor Wood and our editor Susan Allison, without whom all
of this would not have been necessary. And we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you
who voted the original "Stardance" story the Best Novella Hugo in 1977; without you this book would
not exist. We might not either.
In addition to all the sources cited inStarmind 's two prequels,Stardance andStarseed , and the ones
cited above, we drew uponThe Book of SerenityтАФOne Hundred Zen Dialogues ;The Tibetan Book
of Living and Dying , by Sogyal Rinpoche; and Thich Nhat Hanh's Touching Peace. Musical influences
this time around included Charles Brown, Stan Getz, Holly Cole, Kenny Loggins, Paul McCartney ("Off
the Ground" was a favorite track), Dianne Reeves, the Oscar Peterson Trio, Wynton Marsalis, Jake
Thackray and virtually the entire blues and R&B catalogues of Holger Peterson's Stony Plain Records
and Tapes.
Finally, we thank our daughter, Terri LuannaтАФfor this whole saga was begun when she was an infant, for
the sole purpose of getting her back home to Canada after we'd gone broke while showing her off to our
families back in the Old Country. She is now a twenty-year-old college juniorтАФfully grown and out of
the nest . . . and so at last, more than a quarter of a million words later, is the story she inspired. We two
have already agreed between us to collaborate on other books in the future. Butthis tale is now
complete.
тАФSpider & Jeanne Robinson
Vancouver, British Columbia
24 October 1993




PART ONE
1

Provincetown, Massachusetts

1 December 2064



Rhea Paixao was considered odd even by other writers. But some things are universal. Like most of her
colleagues, Rhea got some of her best writing done in the bathroom.

And this was her favorite bathroom. She stopped in the doorway and examined it before entering. She
had known it since earliest childhood, and the passage of time and changing fashions had altered it very
little.

True, it now contained a modern toilet and bath; there was such a thing as carrying quaintness too far.