The novel Variable Star was written by Spider Robinson based on an outline created by Heinlein and found after his death. The novel includes many aspects of Heinlein's Future History series, although the events of the novel diverge from Heinlein's canon. At the end of the novel, Andrew Jackson Conrad appears. While the book does not state this to be Libby, Conrad actually married into the Conrad family and changed his name, and this character invents a faster than light drive. (Other Future History characters, such as Nehemiah Scudder, D. D. Harriman, and Leslie LeCroix are referenced in the book.)
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