# Variable Star **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 12, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/variable-star/448967 "2008-05-12T00:13:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/variable-star/448967/1 "2008-05-12T00:13:52Z")
Has anyone here read Variable Star, the uncompleted Heinlein novel finished by Spider Robinson? It contains a Marianas Trench reference. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/variable-star/448967/2 "2008-05-12T00:27:37Z")
Just one? Does it take 20 minutes to read? Was it written in the early 1960s? You know damn well somebody was going to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Offkenter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f08c70/32.png) [@Offkenter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Offkenter)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/variable-star/448967/3 "2008-05-12T01:40:38Z")
[QUOTE=Tapiotar] Has anyone here read Variable Star, the uncompleted Heinlein novel finished by Spider Robinson? It contains a Marianas Trench reference. [/QUOTE] I’ve read it. Is there a Marianas Trench reference? I don’t recall it. ---
**Author:** ![Offkenter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f08c70/32.png) [@Offkenter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Offkenter)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/variable-star/448967/4 "2008-05-12T01:44:31Z")
I am mogadored. So there is. I fount an excerpt on what looks to be an official publisher’s site. [http://www.variablestarbook.com/excerpts-chapter-7.html](http://www.variablestarbook.com/excerpts-chapter-7.html)