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} }) </script> </div> </form> </fieldset> <article class="entryArticle content STeditorial"> <header class="entryHeader icon-author"> <h1 class="entryTitle">Robinson, Spider </h1> </header><p class='tagLine'>Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.</p><div class="browsingBtns"> <span> <input class="button PNI previous" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?id=p&entry=robinson_spider'" value="Prev" /> </span> <span> <input class="button PNI next" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?&entry=robinson_spider'" value="Next" /> </span> <span> <input class="button PNI incoming" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/incoming.php?entry=robinson_spider'" value="About This Entry" title="What links to the entry; contributor initials explained; how to cite; other information" /> </span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Checklist" onclick="window.location.hash='chklst'" ></span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Alpha" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=robinson_spider&abc'" ></span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Chron" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=robinson_spider'" ></span> <span style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="window.open('/gallery.php?link=robinson_spider');"> <img alt="Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com" style="margin: 0; position: relative; top:-2px;" src="/images/icon-gal.gif"></img></span> </div><p style='float:right; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:10px; position: relative; top: 3px;'> <a href='/gallery.php?id=RobinsonS-Antinomy.jpg' target='_blank'> <img src='https://x.sf-encyclopedia.com/gal/thumbs/RobinsonS-Antinomy.jpg' alt='pic'></a></p> <p>(1948-    ) US-born author who became a Canadian Landed Immigrant in 1975, married to Jeanne <a href="/entry/robinson_jeanne">Robinson</a> from 1975 until her death in 2010. His first story, "The Guy with the Eyes" in <a href="/entry/analog">Analog</a> for February 1973, inaugurated the long-running <b>Callahan</b> series of <a href="/entry/club_story">Club Stories</a>, which continued into the twenty-first century. He has sometimes written tales as by B D Wyatt. The first few years of his career were honour-laden. He shared with Lisa <a href="/entry/tuttle_lisa">Tuttle</a> the 1974 <a href="/entry/john_w_campbell_award">John W Campbell Award</a> for Best New Writer; topped the 1977 <a href="/entry/locus_award">Locus Award</a> poll for Best Critic, mainly for his <b>Galaxy Bookshelf</b> column for <a href="/entry/galaxy">Galaxy</a> June 1975-September 1977; received a 1977 novella <a href="/entry/hugo">Hugo</a> for the magazine version – as "By Any Other Name" (November 1976 <a href="/entry/analog">Analog</a>) – of the first four chapters of his first novel, <i>Telempath</i> (<b>1976</b>); and won both Hugo and <a href="/entry/nebula">Nebula</a> in 1978, along with his wife and collaborator Jeanne <a href="/entry/robinson_jeanne">Robinson</a>, for "Stardance" (March 1977 <a href="/entry/analog">Analog</a>), which became the nucleus of <i>Stardance</i> (<b>1979</b>) with Robinson (see below for comments). In 1983 he won another Hugo, for "Melancholy Elephants" (June 1982 <a href="/entry/analog">Analog</a>). At this high point of his career, his self-conscious punchy optimism about the human condition and his adroit use of generic materials to express that optimism seemed to have established him as a legitimate heir to Robert A <a href="/entry/heinlein_robert_a">Heinlein</a>, a writer he deeply admired, and whose eight page posthumous outline of a novel he much later expanded as <i>Variable Star</i> (<b>2006</b>) "with" Heinlein. <i>Telempath</i>, a complicated story mostly set in a <a href="/entry/post-holocaust">Post-Holocaust</a> <a href="/entry/new_york">New York</a> after a decimating virus-caused <a href="/entry/pandemic">Pandemic</a> has destroyed civilization, cleverly promulgates a sense that the surviving humans, in conjunction with the <a href="/entry/telepathy">Telepathic</a> Muskies – gaseous beings imperceptible before the plague – can earn cohabitation with a vast empathic net of species.</p> <p>From around this time, Robinson's career has seemed twofold: <b>Callahan</b>; plus anything else. The <b>Callahan</b> sequence makes use of one of the central functions of the <a href="/entry/club_story">Club Story</a>, which is to reassure both participants and readers that they co-inhabit something like a real community, as in the television series <i>Cheers</i>. The wide range of <b>Callahan</b> tales – sf and fantasy predominating – does exactly that, revealing human, <a href="/entry/aliens">Alien</a> and even <a href="/entry/robots">Robot</a> frailties and foibles while simultaneously affirming the group – a grouping and venue that clearly represent an idealized vision of sf <a href="/entry/fandom">Fandom</a>. The series comprises <i>Callahan's Crosstime Saloon</i> (coll <b>1977</b>), <i>Time Travelers Strictly Cash</i> (coll <b>1981</b>) and <i>Callahan's Secret</i> (coll <b>1986</b>), most of the stories from these three volumes being assembled as <i>Callahan and Company: The Compleat Chronicles of the Crosstime Saloon</i> (dated 1987 but <b>1988</b>) [see Checklist for further details]. <i>Callahan's Lady</i> (coll <b>1989</b>), set prior to the main series in a whorehouse run by Callahan's wife, assembles similar tales; further titles include <i>Kill the Editor</i> (<b>1991</b>; exp vt <i>Lady Slings the Booze</i> <b>1992</b>), also set in a whorehouse with more hearts of gold in evidence, <i>The Callahan Touch</i> (<b>1993</b>), <i>Off the Wall at Callahan's</i> (coll <b>1994</b>), <i>Callahan's Legacy</i> (coll <b>1996</b>), <i>Callahan's Key</i> (<b>2000</b>), which features Nikola <a href="/entry/tesla_nikola">Tesla</a>, and <i>Callahan's Con</i> (coll <b>2003</b>). Robinson's <a href="/entry/club_story">Club Stories</a> differ from some older models mainly through the amount of action that occurs in and around the saloon itself, so that their ultimate effect is, at times, complex, and extends far beyond the normal remit of the kind of Club Story represented in general by the <b>Callahan</b> sequence.</p> <p>What might be called Robinson's other career contains, in fact, his best work. The <b>Stardance</b> sequence – comprising <i>Stardance</i> (<b>1979</b>; initial novella only, cut <b>1997</b>), <i>Starseed</i> (<b>1991</b>), both assembled as <i>The Star Dancers</i> (omni <b>1997</b>), plus <i>Starmind</i> (<b>1995</b>), all three assembled as <i>The Stardance Trilogy</i> (omni <b>2006</b>), all titles with Jeanne <a href="/entry/robinson_jeanne">Robinson</a> – presents three protagonists whose relationship to the <a href="/entry/arts">Arts</a> defines their lives and careers, and which cumulatively gives <i>Homo sapiens</i> an opportunity to achieve <a href="/entry/transcendence">Transcendence</a> in a galactic arena. In the first volume, a dancer too big for Earth work re-creates her career in a <a href="/entry/space_stations">Space Station</a>, where her zero-gravity dancing attracts the attention of <a href="/entry/aliens">Aliens</a> making <a href="/entry/first_contact">First Contact</a>; in the second, another dancer establishes a symbiontic relationship with a second alien species; in the third, the galaxy opens wide, though some with roots on Earth find the promised transcendence inhumane. Throughout, it is argued, at points movingly, that dance, being wordless but full of enacted content, may provide an ideal form of <a href="/entry/communications">Communication</a> with <a href="/entry/extraterrestrial">Extraterrestrial</a> life.</p> <p>The <b>Lifeforce</b> sequence – comprising <i>Mindkiller: A Novel of the Near Future</i> (<b>1982</b>) and <i>Time Pressure</i> (<b>1987</b>), both assembled as <i>Deathkiller</i> (omni <b>1997</b>), plus <i>Lifehouse</i> (<b>1997</b>), all three assembled as <i>The Lifehouse Trilogy</i> (omni <b>2007</b>) – complexly joins together three protagonists who variously suffer from <a href="/entry/amnesia">Amnesia</a>, <a href="/entry/time_travel">Time Travel</a> disorientation and advanced forms of addiction into what might be described as something like a gestalt, as humanity, through them, as in the earlier sequence, may have a chance of <a href="/entry/transcendence">Transcendence</a> via <a href="/entry/aliens">Alien</a> interventions into a fulfilling <a href="/entry/posthuman">Posthuman</a> reality. The crime- and computer-ridden world of <i>Mindkiller</i> is followed by an invocation of 1970s Nova Scotia, seen through a romantic film; the third volume ties together the whole as profound recovered memories unveil the future to come. Robinson's third novel sequence, the <b>Very</b> series comprising <i>Very Bad Deaths</i> (<b>2004</b>) and <i>Very Hard Choices</i> (<b>2008</b>), less interestingly combines soft-<i>noir</i> tropes (including a serial killer), sf protagonists, including a <a href="/entry/telepathy">Telepath</a>, and the <a href="/entry/politics">Politics</a> of <a href="/entry/paranoia">Paranoia</a>. Overall, an increasing insistence on a style that seems increasingly burdened with Heinleinesque rhetorical tricks gives Robinson's sequences, as they progress, a sense of belatedness.</p> <p>Individual novels include <i>Night of Power</i> (<b>1985</b>), more controlled than some of the longer work, which aroused some negative response for its depiction of a Black-power revolt in <a href="/entry/new_york">New York</a>. His stories are generally sharp and show considerable control. Collections include <i>Antinomy</i> (coll <b>1980</b>); <i>Melancholy Elephants</i> (coll <b>1984</b>; with one story dropped and two added, rev <b>1985</b>), his only book to be initially released by the feeble Canadian publishing industry; <i>True Minds</i> (coll <b>1990</b>); <i>User Friendly</i> (coll <b>1998</b>), <i>By Any Other Name</i> (coll <b>2001</b>) and <i>God Is an Iron and Other Stories</i> (coll <b>2002</b>). [JC]</p> <p><b>see also:</b> <a href="/entry/adventure">Adventure</a>; <a href="/entry/asf">Astounding Science-Fiction</a>; <a href="/entry/canada">Canada</a>; <a href="/entry/destinies">Destinies</a>; <a href="/entry/galaxy">Galaxy Science Fiction</a>; <a href="/entry/music">Music</a>; <a href="/entry/robert_a_heinlein_award">Robert A Heinlein Award</a>; <a href="/entry/skylark_award">Skylark Award</a>; <a href="/entry/supernatural_creatures">Supernatural Creatures</a>.</p> <h3 id="chklst">Spider Robinson</h3> <p><b>born</b> New York: 24 November 1948</p> <p><b>works</b></p> <p><input type="button" value="Alphabetical" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=robinson_spider&abc'"> <input type="button" value="Chronological" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=robinson_spider'"></p> <p><b>series</b></p> <p><b>Callahan</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Callahan+Crosstime+Saloon&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Callahan's Crosstime Saloon</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>1977</b>) [coll: <b>Callahan</b>: pb/Vincent <a href="/entry/di_fate_vincent">Di Fate</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Time+Travelers+Strictly+Cash&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Time Travelers Strictly Cash</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>1981</b>) [coll: <b>Callahan</b>: pb/Vincent <a href="/entry/di_fate_vincent">Di Fate</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Callahan+Secret&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Callahan's Secret</a></em> (New York: Berkley Books, <b>1986</b>) [coll: <b>Callahan</b>: pb/James <a href="/entry/warhola_james">Warhola</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Callahan+and+Company+The+Compleat+Chronicles+of&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Callahan and Company: The Compleat Chronicles of the Crosstime Saloon</a></em> (West Bloomfield, Michigan: Phantasia Press, <b>1988</b>) [coll/omni: book dated 1987: resorting selected stories from the above three: <b>Callahan</b>: hb/David A <a href="/entry/cherry_david_a">Cherry</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Callahan+Crazy+Crosstime+Bar&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Callahan's Crazy Crosstime Bar</a></em> (New York: Warner Books, <b>1989</b>) [coll: vt of the above: <b>Callahan</b>: pb/uncredited]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Callahan+Chronicals&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Callahan Chronicals</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>1997</b>) [exp vt of the above: <b>Callahan</b>: pb/James <a href="/entry/warhola_james">Warhola</a>]</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Callahan+Lady&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Callahan's Lady</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>1989</b>) [coll: <b>Callahan</b>: hb/James <a href="/entry/warhola_james">Warhola</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Kill+the+Editor&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Kill the Editor</a></em> (Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse Publishing/Axolotl Press, <b>1991</b>) [<b>Callahan</b>: pb/Jill Bauman] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Lady+Slings+the+Booze&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Lady Slings the Booze</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>1992</b>) [exp vt of the above: <b>Callahan</b>: pb/Richard <a href="/entry/hescox_richard">Hescox</a>]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Callahan+Touch&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Callahan Touch</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>1993</b>) [coll: <b>Callahan</b>: pb/James <a href="/entry/warhola_james">Warhola</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Callahan+Legacy&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Callahan's Legacy</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>1996</b>) [coll: <b>Callahan</b>: hb/James <a href="/entry/warhola_james">Warhola</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Callahan+Key&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Callahan's Key</a></em> (New York: Bantam Spectra, <b>2000</b>) [<b>Callahan</b>: hb/Don <a href="/entry/maitz_don">Maitz</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Callahan+Con&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Callahan's Con</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>2003</b>) [coll: <b>Callahan</b>: hb/Jeff Fischer]</li> </ul> <p><b>Stardance</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Stardance&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Stardance</a></em> (New York: The Dial Press/James Wade, <b>1979</b>) with Jeanne <a href="/entry/robinson_jeanne">Robinson</a> [fixup: first appeared as "Stardance" (March 1977 <a href="/entry/analog">Analog</a>) and as "Stardance II" (September-November 1978 <a href="/entry/analog">Analog</a>): <b>Stardance</b>: hb/Larry Kresek] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Stardance&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Stardance</a></em> (New York: Science Fiction Book Club, <b>1997</b>) with Jeanne <a href="/entry/robinson_jeanne">Robinson</a> [novella: cut version of the above: containing original novella only: first appeared as "Stardance" (March 1977 <a href="/entry/analog">Analog</a>): hb/Bob <a href="/entry/eggleton_bob">Eggleton</a>]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Starseed&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Starseed</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>1991</b>) with Jeanne <a href="/entry/robinson_jeanne">Robinson</a> [first appeared 1 June-29 November <a href="/entry/pulphouse_the_hardback_magazine">Pulphouse</a>: <b>Stardance</b>: hb/Michael <a href="/entry/herring_michael">Herring</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Star+Dancers&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Star Dancers</a></em> (New York: Baen Books, <b>1997</b>) with Jeanne <a href="/entry/robinson_jeanne">Robinson</a> [omni of the above two: <b>Stardance</b>: pb/Gary <a href="/entry/ruddell_gary">Ruddell</a>]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Starmind&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Starmind</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>1995</b>) with Jeanne <a href="/entry/robinson_jeanne">Robinson</a> [first appeared August-November 1994 <a href="/entry/analog">Analog</a>: <b>Stardance</b>: hb/Michael <a href="/entry/herring_michael">Herring</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Stardance+Trilogy&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Stardance Trilogy</a></em> (New York: Baen Books, <b>2006</b>) with Jeanne <a href="/entry/robinson_jeanne">Robinson</a> [omni of the above three: <b>Stardance</b>: hb/Kurt <a href="/entry/miller_kurt">Miller</a>]</li> </ul></li> </ul> <p><b>Lifehouse</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Mindkiller+A+Novel+of+the+Near+Future&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Mindkiller: A Novel of the Near Future</a></em> (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, <b>1982</b>) [<b>Lifehouse</b>: hb/Paul <a href="/entry/bacon_paul">Bacon</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Time+Pressure&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Time Pressure</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>1987</b>) [<b>Lifehouse</b>: hb/James <a href="/entry/warhola_james">Warhola</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Deathkiller&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Deathkiller</a></em> (New York: Baen Books, <b>1996</b>) [omni with revs of the above two: <b>Lifehouse</b>: pb/David Lee Anderson]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Lifehouse&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Lifehouse</a></em> (New York: Baen Books, <b>1997</b>) [<b>Lifehouse</b>: hb/David Lee Anderson] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Lifehouse+Trilogy&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Lifehouse Trilogy</a></em> (New York: Baen Books, <b>2007</b>) [omni of the above three: <b>Lifehouse</b>: hb/Stephen <a href="/entry/hickman_stephen">Hickman</a>]</li> </ul></li> </ul> <p><b>Very</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Very+Bad+Deaths&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Very Bad Deaths</a></em> (New York: Baen Books, <b>2004</b>) [<b>Very</b>: hb/Stephen <a href="/entry/hickman_stephen">Hickman</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Very+Hard+Choices&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Very Hard Choices</a></em> (New York: Baen Books, <b>2008</b>) [<b>Very</b>: hb/Stephen <a href="/entry/hickman_stephen">Hickman</a>]</li> </ul> <p><b>individual titles</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Telempath&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Telempath</a></em> (New York: Berkley Publishing Group/Putnam, <b>1976</b>) [part first appeared November 1976 <a href="/entry/analog">Analog</a> as "By Any Other Name": hb/Richard <a href="/entry/powers_richard_m">Powers</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Armageddon+2419+AD&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Armageddon 2419 AD</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>1978</b>) with Philip Francis <a href="/entry/nowlan_philip_francis">Nowlan</a> [fixup: rev and update of Nowlan's <em>Armageddon 2419 AD</em> (stories August 1928, March 1929 <a href="/entry/amazing">Amazing</a>; fixup <b>1962</b>): pb/Don <a href="/entry/brautigam_don">Brautigam</a> wrongly credited as Don Brautigom]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Night+of+Power&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Night of Power</a></em> (New York: Baen Books, <b>1985</b>) [hb/David Wilson]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Free+Lunch&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Free Lunch</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>2001</b>) [hb/Stephan <a href="/entry/martiniere_stephan">Martinière</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Variable+Star&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Variable Star</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>2006</b>) with Robert A <a href="/entry/heinlein_robert_a">Heinlein</a> [by Robinson based on eight-page outline found in Heinlein's papers: hb/Stephan <a href="/entry/martiniere_stephan">Martinière</a>]</li> </ul> <p><b>collections and stories</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Antinomy&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Antinomy</a></em> (New York: Dell Books, <b>1980</b>) [coll: pb/Larry Kresek]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Melancholy+Elephants&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Melancholy Elephants</a></em> (Markham, Ontario: Penguin Books, <b>1984</b>) [coll: pb/Shin Sugino] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Melancholy+Elephants&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Melancholy Elephants</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>1985</b>) [coll: exp of the above: pb/Jill Bauman]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=True+Minds&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">True Minds</a></em> (Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse Publishing, <b>1990</b>) [coll: in the publisher's <b>Author's Choice Monthly</b> series: hb/George <a href="/entry/barr_george">Barr</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Copyright+Violation&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Copyright Violation</a></em> (Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse Publishing, <b>1990</b>) [story: chap: hb/Kelly <a href="/entry/freas_kelly">Freas</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=User+Friendly&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">User Friendly</a></em> (New York: Baen Books, <b>1998</b>) [coll: pb/uncredited]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=By+Any+Other+Name&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">By Any Other Name</a></em> (New York: Baen Books, <b>2001</b>) [coll: pb/Richard Martin]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=God+Is+an+Iron+and+Other+Stories&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">God Is an Iron and Other Stories</a></em> (Waterville, Maine: Five Star, <b>2002</b>) [coll: hb/]</li> </ul> <p><b>nonfiction</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Crazy+Years+Reflections+of+a+Science+Fiction&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Crazy Years: Reflections of a Science Fiction Original</a></em> (Dallas, Texas: BenBella Books, <b>2004</b>) [nonfiction: coll: pb/]</li> </ul> <p><b>works as editor</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Best+of+All+Possible+Worlds&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Best of All Possible Worlds</a></em> (New York: Ace Books, <b>1980</b>) [anth: pb/uncredited]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Compostela+Tesseracts+Twenty&field-author=Robinson+Spider" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty</a></em> (Calgary, Alberta: Hades Publications/Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, <b>2017</b>) with James Alan <a href="/entry/gardner_james_alan">Gardner</a> [anth: <a href="/entry/tesseracts">Tesseracts</a>: <b>Tesseracts</b>: pb/nirut123rf]</li> </ul> <p><b>links</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.spiderrobinson.com/">Spider Robinson</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?50">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://sf-encyclopedia.com/gallery.php?link=robinson_spider">Picture Gallery</a></li> </ul> <p><b>previous versions of this entry</b></p> <ul><li><a href='https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/robinson_spider' target='_blank'>Internet Archive</a></li></ul><br /><br 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