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This great news was posted on alt.fan.heinlein:

Brethren and sistren,

I’ve been saying for thirty years now that shared joy increases. If so, we’re all gonna be neck-deep in the stuff in a second.

I am collaborating on a novel with Robert A. Heinlein.

No, really.

I have just been given final approval by the Heinlein Trust to write a novel based on a detailed outline created by Robert in 1955. It will be billed as “Robert A. Heinlein’s VARIABLE STAR, by Spider Robinson.” The book proposal is even now being prepared for market by my (and Robert’s) agent Eleanor Wood. The first 10,000 words are already written.

I don’t suppose any of you need to be told what this means to me, nor could I express it. Honoured . terrified . exhilarated . all those are
in there, and more.

Some writers enjoy writing. I’m the other kind: I enjoy *having written*. But these last few weeks, for almost the first time in thirty
years, the writing itself has been a pure and holy joy. Which I share now with you.

Wish me luck.

–Spider Robinson

Spider is known to one and all as the creator of the Callahan’s Bar series (my favorites), and he also penned a chapter in “Requiem.” He’s a member of The Heinlein Society and will do a wonderful job. I can barely contain myself waiting for publication of the recently discovered first Heinlein novel, ‘For Us, The Living.”