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Spider Robinson was born on November 24, 1948 in New York City. He has lived in Canada for the past 30 years and as an author, he is a Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction writer. He also worked as a book reviewer for the Galaxy science fiction magazine during the mid- to late 1970s and later contributed book reviews to the original anthology series Destinies . He also serves as a columnist in the technology section of the Globe and Mail. Currently (mid-2004), he is overjoyed to be working on and with a 1955 lengthy outline of the late Robert A. Heinlein in order to expand it into a novel, thus making it a collaborative effort. The book will be titled Robert A. Heinlein's Variable StarAllusions in various novels and stories make it clear that another past writer whom Robinson admires almost as much as he admires Heinlein is the mystery writer John D. MacDonald.
Lady Sally McGee ( Callahan's series) is clearly named in honor of Travis McGee, the lead character in Lady Slings The Booze frequently refers to Travis as a role model, and in Callahan's Key the patrons make a visit to the marina near Fort Lauderdale where the Busted Flush was usually moored in the McGee series.
1 Science fiction novels
- Mindkiller (1982)
- Telempath (1983)
- Night Of Power (1985)
- Time Pressure (1987)
- Copyright Violation (novelette 1990)
- Deathkiller (1996) (omnibus edition of Mindkiller and Time Pressure)
- Lifehouse (1997)
- The Free Lunch (2002)
- Very Bad Deaths (2004)
2 The Stardance Trilogy
written in collaboration with his wife, Jeanne Robinson
- Stardance (1979)
- Starseed (1991)
- The Star Dancers (1997) (omnibus edition of Stardance and Starseed)
- Starmind (2001)
3 The Callahan's Series
- Callahan's
- Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (1977)
- Time Travelers Strictly Cash (1981)
- Callahan's Secret (1986)
- Callahan and Company (1988) - (omnibus edition of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, Time Travelers Strictly Cash, and Callahan's Secret)
- The Callahan Chronicals (1997) - (retitled republication of Callahan and Company)
- Lady Sally's
- Callahan's Lady (1989)
- Lady Slings the Booze (1992)
- Kill the Editor (1991) - (an excerpt from Lady Slings the Booze, published in a special edition)
- Mary's Place
- The Callahan Touch (1993)
- Callahan's Legacy (1996)
- The Place
- Callahan's Key (2000)
- Callahan's Con (2003)
- Off the Wall at Callahan's (1994) - (a collection of quotes from other books in the series)
4 Short story collections
- Antinomy (1980)
- The Best of All Possible Worlds (1980) - (collection of works by other authors edited and introduced by Robinson)
- Melancholy Elephants (1984 - Canada; 1985 - United States)
- True Minds (1990)
- User Friendly (1998)
- By Any Other Name (2001)
- God Is an Iron and Other Stories (2002)
5 Awards
- Campbell award (best new writer) (1974)
- Hugo award for best novella (1977) By Any Other Name (later expanded into TelempathTelempath ( 1983), by Spider Robinson, is a science fiction novel set in a dystopian near-future in which human cities have fallen into ruin and the population has been sharply reduced. It is a novel-length expansion of Robinson's Hugo award-winning novel) and best short story (1983) Melancholy Elephants
- Nebula award for best novella (1977) Stardance (with Jeanne Robinson)
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