The novel “Starmind” by Spider and Jeanne Robinson was published for the first time in 1994 in the magazine “Analog Science Fiction” and in 1995 as a book. It’s the sequel to “Starseed” and the third novel in the Stardance trilogy.

Rand Porter is a composer who is offered his dream job in the artistic direction of the Shimizu Hotel, the luxurious hotel in the Earth’s orbit. The problem is that his wife, the writer Rhea Paixao, is very attached to her hometown so to say the least has some hesitation to leave it to move so far as to the Earth’s orbit.

Eventually, the couple agrees to try to live a period at the Shimizu Hotel so they move with their daughter. Soon the situation becomes much more complex than expected with assassination attempts that initially appear to target some billionaires. Soon the target appear to be those who want to participate in the Stardance and join with a symbiotic life form or who have already achieved the symbiosis.