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	Spider Robinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spider Robinson (born November 24, 1948 in New York City) is a Canadian science fiction writer.
		Spider Robinson with wife Jeanne at the 2004 Necronomicon.
		Robinson has lived in Canada for the past 30 years (primarily in the provinces of Nova Scotia and British Columbia) and as an author, he is a Hugo and Nebula award winner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spider_Robinson (560 words)

	Locus Online: Spider Robinson interview excerpts
		Spider Robinson's debut story, "The Guy with the Eyes" in 1973, was the first of his ongoing, humorous "Callahan's Place" time travel stories set in a bar.
		Robinson won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1974, a Hugo Award in 1977 for novella "By Any Other Name", and the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards for novella "Stardance" (1977) co-written with wife Jeanne.
		Robinson plays guitar, and is a popular performer and toastmaster at SF conventions.
	www.locusmag.com /2004/Issues/02Robinson.html (850 words)

	Interview \| Spider Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Spider Robinson's early dreams and ambitions were mostly around being a folksinger.
		Robinson shakes his head in mock-dismay at this disclosure, but his pride in his only offspring is apparent.
		Here, then, are Spider Robinson's thoughts on a number of topics: from where he got his name, to his earliest encounters with Ben Bova, his run-in with Tom Waits' lawyers, how he started writing, what he thinks about Dan Quayle, his upcoming writing projects, his thoughts on space, on writers he admires and...
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/spiderrobinson.html (907 words)

	Spider Monkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Spider monkeys are characterized by their long, slender limbs and great agility.
		Spider monkeys travel by brachiating through the trees using their prehensile tails as a fifth limb.
		Spider monkeys live high in the trees of the rain forest and only rarely descend to the jungle floor.
	www.hensonrobinsonzoo.org /k001.html (238 words)

	Spider Deaths - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Spider Robinson is, perhaps, best known for the humor of the Callahan series.
		Nearly all spiders are venomous, creating a toxin used to kill or immobilize their prey in...
		Possibly the scariest thing about spider bites is the fact that doctors are often uncertain about the diagnosis; and once the diagnosis is made, even the experts disagree about what should be done.
	deaths.fmqg.com /index.php?k=spider-deaths (1255 words)

	Spider Robinson: The Crazy Years
		Spider Robinson is best known for his series of Callahan stories, his award winning Stardance series, and his love of Robert Heinlein.
		While Robinson gives his reasons, all of which appear reasonable, it would be interesting to see what would happen if he actually were offered the money without any strings attached.
		Robinson also refuses to neglect the human element in technological advances, whether it is his coffee pot, Ebay, or multi-functional James Bondian pens.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/crazy.html (473 words)

	Spider Robinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Spider Robinson (born Paul Robinson November 24, 1948 in New York City) is a Canadian 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.
		Lady Sally McGee from the Callahan's series is apparently named in honor of Travis McGee.
	www.butte-silverbow.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Spider_Robinson (547 words)

	Spider Robinson: Very Bad Deaths
		When Robinson first springs the horror on his readers, he has managed to successfully prepare them for what is to follow, which is still told in a breezy manner despite the dreadful situation he sets up.
		However, Robinson, while making the scope and nature of his amorality clear, does not dwell on it, allowing his readers to get to know the heroes of the novel instead.
		In one of the cases where Robinson does permit his characters to fall into cliché, notably the scene in which Allen and Walker confront each other, the characters are very much aware of the cliché, even going so far to discuss why they are allowing themselves to live a cliché.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/spider.html (460 words)

	Simply Audiobooks - Spider Robinson Bio
		The Usenet newsgroup alt.callahans, inspired by Spider's Callahan's Place series, was rated the 151st largest newsgroup by bits posted, 172nd by messages posted (placing it in the top 1%), and propagates to over 60% of all Usenet sites, as well as IRC and other cyberbyways.
		Spider was born in New York City on 3 successive days (they had to handle him in sections), and holds a Bachelors degree in English from the State University of New York.
		He has been married for 27 years to Jeanne Robinson, a Boston-born writer, modern dance choreographer, former dancer, and teacher of dance and the Alexander Technique, and lay-ordained Buddhist monk (Soto Zen lineage); she was Artistic Director of Halifax's Nova Dance Theatre during its 8-year history.
	www.simplyaudiobooks.com /audio-books-author-bio/Spider+Robinson/2203 (616 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		Robinson mostly writes playful shaggy-dog stories packed full of horrible puns and sly in-jokes, but the Callahan stories are also deeply humanistic, imbued with an honest joy in life and an indefatigable hope for the future.
		Robinson is also responsible for the definitive fan defense of Robert Heinlein, ("Rah Rah R.A.H.!"), and in addition he's a newspaper columnist, a folksinger and songwriter, and a hideously prolific punster.
		Robinson: Well, the description of the space shuttle takeoff, for instance, is as accurate as I could make it.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue168/interview.html (4049 words)

	Spider Robinson: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Spider notes, "The military strategy used by Michael and his friends in this book is for real, the Commandant of the NYC Marine Corps detachment told me it would probably work...and there's no reason why it wouldn't work just as well today for real-world foreign terrorists as it did for my fictional revolutionaries.
		All the rest of it was written by Spider Robinson, with only the assistance of the usual wretches chained up in the root cellar beneath his desk.
		Spider doesn't make anything from you buying this way, and actually has to go to the store to autograph your book, but it is his #1 choice for you getting a copy of his books.
	www.spiderrobinson.com /books.htm (2996 words)

	Interview \| Spider Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They deliberated for a few days and then came back and said: Your name is "Spider." Naturally I asked why and each of them had a different reason.
		Now you've got a check made out to "Spider Robinson" so you have to open up a bank account in that name.
		My mother used to call me something or other else, but mom was a notorious liar and we paid as little attention to her as possible.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/spiderrobinson4.html (1034 words)

	Post Toast, by Spider Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Spider does not want his e-mail address revealed, for reasons he explains in the story.
		Spider takes it, walks around the bar and strides up to the chalk line on the floor, faces the crackling hearth.
		And with that, weeping with joy and giggling with sorrow, Spider vanishes back to what he calls reality (what a kidder, that guy), and to his best friend and co-author and oh yes, wife, Jeanne, and their sweet daughter Terri, and life goes on at Mary's Place.
	www.vex.net /~leslie/posttoast.html (3102 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Callahan's Con
		In 1973, Spider Robinson moved to Nova Scotia, where he met and married Jeanne Robinson, a choreographer/dancer, and founder of Halifax's modern dance company, Nova Dance Theatre.
		I first met Spider Robinson (disguised as Jake Stonebender) in a glorious romp of a tale involving a gloriously and unapologetically plastered punaholic in the shape of an Irish sprite called a cluricaune.
		Spider Robinson is still making me giggle out loud.
	www.sfsite.com /10b/cc162.htm (660 words)

	Spider Robinson's Web Page! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He has been married for twenty years to Jeanne Robinson, a Boston-born writer, modern dance choreographer, former dancer, and teacher of both dance and the Alexander Technique; she founded and was Artistic Director of Halifax's Nova Dance Theatre during its seven-year history.
		Spider's next solo release will be CALLAHAN'S LEGACY [St. Martin's hc 1996; Tor pb 1997], to be followed by St. Martin's/Tor with an omnibus reissue of the first three Callahan's Place books.
		Spider and Jeanne have lived for the last eight years in Vancouver, British Columbia, where they raise and exhibit hopes.
	www.users.interport.net /%7Esfmm/spider.html (263 words)

	Callahan's Key by Spider Robinson
		Nobody blends good science with bad puns as brilliantly as Spider Robinson, as his legion of devoted fans will attest.
		"Spider Robinson is the hottest writer to hit science fiction since [Harlan] Ellison, and he can match the master's frenetic energy and emotional intensity, arm-break for gut-wrench."
		Spider Robinson has won three Hugos, a Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Award.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0553580604 (270 words)

	User Friendly - Spider Robinson
		Spider Robinson has won every major award that the science fiction field has to offer with his Heinlein-influenced, solidly scientific, warmly human stories.
		User Friendly is a new solid chunk of Spider's universe that is inimitably reader friendly.
		This new volume of pure 24 karat Spider Robinson will be welcomed by his many readers and will win him many new ones.
	www.englishbooks.it /BUS/0671878646/User_Friendly.htm (134 words)

	Powell's Books - The Callahan Chronicals (Callahan) by Spider Robinson
		Spider Robinson, winner of three Hugos and a Nebula, was born in the Bronx and raised on Long Island, and has been a Canadian resident for 30 years.
		He now lives with his wife Jeanne Robinson (co-author of the Hugo- and Nebula-winning Stardance trilogy) on an island outside Vancouver, B.C., where they raise and exhibit hopes.
		In 2000, he released Belaboring the Obvious, a CD of original music with the legendary Amos Garrett ("Midnight at the Oasis") on lead guitar, and in 2001 he was a celebrity judge at the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0812539370-0 (395 words)

	SS > SF > book reviews > Spider Robinson
		Spider Robinson captures the feel of the network of fandom, and of SF conventions.
		Spider is posed a moral dilemma from the future.
		Spider has written a fast and (mostly) funny "Heinlein juvenile"-esque story here, with some good sidebars on responsibility and courage.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/sf/books/r/robinson.htm (1514 words)

	Spider Robinson Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Spider Robinson's Official Homepage, maintained by Ted Powell.
		Spider's con and speech schedules, pictures, links to other Spider sites, book reviews, photograph, and other sundry Spider- related info.
		Spider has ceased to write his triweekly column `The Crazy Years' on Mondays for The Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto; in June 99 he began writing a triweekly column on Thursdays called `Future Tense', which he discontinued in Jan 2000.
	www.vex.net /~leslie/spiderinfo.html (278 words)

	Why Spider Robinson has my Eternal Gratitude (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Spider told its author, "I have literally never seen the last paragraph of your story clearly, because every time I get to it I am laughing and crying at the same time."
		I can't tell you how much I had wanted to tell RAH the same thing, and how much I have regretted not doing it while he was still alive.
		I'm grateful to hear that someone did it, and that it was someone who could say it as well as Spider did.
	brasscannon.com /rah.html (302 words)

	Spider Robinson Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I was at a party several years ago and a biologist said I ought to read somebody called "Spider Robinson." I thought: Spider.
		Robinson's chief speculative leap is to imagine a place where community is possible.
		But what Robinson is up to is nothing less than a participatory utopia that a reader enrolls in by reading.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /patrickoleary/spiderreview.html (868 words)

	SPIDER ROBINSON - BOOK HELP WEB AUTHOR PROFILE
		Born in New York City, Spider Robinson is a science fiction writer, book reviewer, and folk singer.
		On his way to becoming a writer, Robinson held such odd jobs as morgue attendant, folksinger, shipping clerk, soda jerk, night watchman, and real estate writer.
		The Robinsons now live in British Columbia where they continue to be active writers and members of the science fiction community.
	www.bookhelpweb.com /authors/robinsons/robinson.htm (146 words)

	BookLoons Reviews - Callahan's Con by Spider Robinson
		I have read many books by Spider Robinson over the years but only early episodes in the Callahan series.
		Robinson has been compared to greats in science fiction, Harlan Ellison and Robert Heinlein in particular.
		Spider Robinson has his own voice and it's a strong one.
	www.bookloons.com /cgi-bin/Review.ASP?bookid=1875 (338 words)

	Spider Robinson: About Jeanne Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A child of the 60s, Robinson moved to Nova Scotia as part of the back-to-the-land movement in 1972, and taught, choreographed and danced throughout the province, both as a solo artist, and with Halifax Dance Co-Op and Halcyon Dance Theatre.
		In addition to her own work, Robinson consistently offered NDT as a venue to emerging regional choreographers like Francine Boucher, Diane Moore, Leica Hardy, Gwen Noah, Duncan Holt, and Louise Hoyt, and also commissioned works from out-of-town artists such as Beverly Brown, Barbara Dilley and Jennifer Mascall.
		A spiritual seeker who is now a lay-ordained Soto Zen Buddhist, Robinson speaks of her dances as "moving koans, visual parables that came to me and demanded to be realized." After seeing her dance, her Zen teacher, Tenshin Reb Anderson, named her Buchi Eihei-dancing wisdom, eternal peace.
	www.spiderrobinson.com /jeanne.htm (660 words)

	Spider Robinson: Diary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Spider learns the hard way that Microsoft Office 2004 may not work in the way that it claims to.
		Spider remembers Jack Gaughan, "one of the very finest illustrators in the history of science fiction," and shares a small surprise.
		Spider's personal response to the passing of Virginia Gerstenfeld Heinlein, widow of Robert A. Heinlein.
	www.spiderrobinson.com /diary.htm (384 words)

	Welcome to Spider Robinson's Official Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Spider's contribution, "You Don't Know My Heart," is his first short story in nearly a decade.
		Spider believes it to be one of the very best books he's ever worked on.
		Spider has direct control over content of this site, but is not involved in the day-to-day creation or maintenance of it.
	www.spiderrobinson.com (1510 words)

	Spider Robinson- Vancouver International Writers Festival
		Spider Robinson has been writing science fiction for more than 30 years, and has published almost as many books.
		His new novel, Callahan's Con, is the latest instalment in his Callahan's Place series, which has also spawned a CD, a CD-ROM computer game, and an enormously popular newsgroup on the Internet.
		He lives in British Columbia with his wife and occasional collaborator, Jeanne Robinson.
	www.writersfest.bc.ca /2003festival/author.php?author=62 (83 words)

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