# Books I've been waiting for. List yours! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610 "2006-11-24T03:14:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/41 "2006-11-26T22:09:56Z")
[QUOTE=Polycarp] _Variable Star_, by Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson. [/QUOTE] From what I’ve heard, it’s crap. It starts out good, then totally bombs out in the middle, with a slight uptick by the end. “Spider Robinson guzzles the wrong Kool Aide” is how one Heinlein fan put it. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/42 "2006-11-27T00:51:56Z")
I actually thought it was pretty good. The naysayers I’ve heard seem disappointed that it’s not ‘true’ Heinlein. But honestly it has to be viewed as a Spider Robinson book with a strong dose of Heinlein. Viewing it any other way is unfair to it and to the authors. Especially in the afterward when Spider reveals that he got an outline to work from that didn’t have an ending! ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/43 "2006-11-27T02:44:52Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] [T.E.D. Klein](http://shocklines.stores.yahoo.net/uncobytklbha.html) – short stories, not a novel, but still . . . [/QUOTE] I hope it’s worth the wait. **Dark Gods** wouldn’t have been. The only books I’m looking forward to are kids’ books: Harry Potter VII and A Wizard of Mars by Diane Duane. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/44 "2006-11-27T02:45:53Z")
[QUOTE=Jonathan Chance] I actually thought it was pretty good. The naysayers I’ve heard seem disappointed that it’s not ‘true’ Heinlein. But honestly it has to be viewed as a Spider Robinson book with a strong dose of Heinlein. Viewing it any other way is unfair to it and to the authors. Especially in the afterward when Spider reveals that he got an outline to work from that didn’t have an ending! [/QUOTE] Well, I haven’t liked any of Spider’s work since he blew up the bar, and the review I read of it told me enough that even if it had just Spider’s name on the cover, I wouldn’t have enjoyed it. Before I read the review (which was highly detailed, BTW), I thought I might be able to enjoy it as a “light frothy souffle.” ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/45 "2006-11-27T03:08:33Z")
Harry Potter 7 The Last Dangerous Visions A Wizard on/of Mars–Diane Duane Sixty Days and Counting–Kim Stanley Robinson Anything from David Brin Anything from Robert Charles Wilson ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/46 "2006-11-27T03:30:09Z")
[QUOTE=Flutterby] Currently I’m waiting on the next book in Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel series. I want to know what happens next with Imriel! [/QUOTE] Count me in! Also, the conclusion to Maria V. Snyder’s ‘Study’ series. Yeah, it’s Luna, yeah, the love story is utterly improbable and kills the hero’s character and the heroine is an original Mary Sue, but I wanna know! It’s decent fluff! Don’t know why, really, but Anne Bishop is continuing the Black Jewels books and I want to read the new ones. Her new trilogy tries to copy the formula but just falls flat. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/47 "2006-11-27T13:36:47Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] Not so sure about that. I visited that website while composing this OP, and I couldn’t find any updates later than 2003 on it. [/QUOTE] [Here’s](http://www.gerrold.com/whatsnew/page.htm) some information from 2006. Yes, I was reading the series too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610.md?page=2)