The novel “Stardance” by Spider and Jeanne Robinson was published for the first time in 1979.

Shara Drummond wanted be a dancer. She’s very talented but dancers must be petite and thin and Shara is neither. Her dream seems vanished, instead she decides to create the Stardance, a new form of dance in weightlessness and truly three-dimensional.

In order to develop her idea, Shara does everything to be able to work on a space station. There, the microgravity allows her to try movements totally impossible on Earth. However, her prolonged efforts in that environment cause serious risks to her health but they become unimportant when aliens are spotted.