Spider Robinson
Canada (1948 - )
Husband of Jeanne Robinson
Since he began writing professionally in 1972, Spider Robinson has won many major awards, including three Hugos, one Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He is best known for his Callahan stories, about the most bizarre band of barflies you're likely to meet in this or any other galaxy, and for the Hugo and Nebula-winning Stardance Sequence, Stardance, Starseed, and Starmind, written with his wife, writer/choreographer Jeanne Robinson. His opinion column "Future Tense" has appeared in Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, since 1996.
Series
Callahan
1. Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (1978)
2. Time Travelers Strictly Cash (1979)
3. Callahan's Secret (1986)
4. Callahan's Lady (1989)
5. Lady Slings the Booze (1992)
6. The Callahan Touch (1993)
7. Callahan's Legacy (1995)
8. Callahan's Key (2000)
9. Callahan's Con (2003)
Callahan's Crazy Crosstime Bar (1988)
aka Callahan and Company
Off the Wall at Callahan's (1994)
The Callahan Chronicals (omnibus) (1997)
1. Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (1978)
2. Time Travelers Strictly Cash (1979)
3. Callahan's Secret (1986)
4. Callahan's Lady (1989)
5. Lady Slings the Booze (1992)
6. The Callahan Touch (1993)
7. Callahan's Legacy (1995)
8. Callahan's Key (2000)
9. Callahan's Con (2003)
Callahan's Crazy Crosstime Bar (1988)
aka Callahan and Company
Off the Wall at Callahan's (1994)
The Callahan Chronicals (omnibus) (1997)
Stardance (with Jeanne Robinson)
1. Stardance (1979)
2. Starseed (1991)
3. Starmind (1995)
The Star Dancers (omnibus) (1997)
1. Stardance (1979)
2. Starseed (1991)
3. Starmind (1995)
The Star Dancers (omnibus) (1997)
Deathkiller
1. Mindkiller (1982)
2. Time Pressure (1987)
3. Lifehouse (1997)
Deathkiller (omnibus) (1996)
1. Mindkiller (1982)
2. Time Pressure (1987)
3. Lifehouse (1997)
Deathkiller (omnibus) (1996)
Novels
Telempath (1976)
Night of Power (1985)
Tales from the Planet Earth (1986) (with Lino Aldani, Brian Aldiss, Karl-Michael Armer, Jon Bing, Andre Carneiro, A Bertram Chandler, Ljuben Dilov, Tong Enzheng, Carlos Maria Federici, Harry Harrison, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Sam J Lundwall, Joseph Nesvadba, Frederik Pohl, Tetsu Yano, Ye Yonglie and Janusz A Zajdel)
The Free Lunch (2001)
Variable Star (2006) (with Robert Heinlein)
Night of Power (1985)
Tales from the Planet Earth (1986) (with Lino Aldani, Brian Aldiss, Karl-Michael Armer, Jon Bing, Andre Carneiro, A Bertram Chandler, Ljuben Dilov, Tong Enzheng, Carlos Maria Federici, Harry Harrison, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Sam J Lundwall, Joseph Nesvadba, Frederik Pohl, Tetsu Yano, Ye Yonglie and Janusz A Zajdel)
The Free Lunch (2001)
Variable Star (2006) (with Robert Heinlein)
Collections
Antinomy (1980)
Melancholy Elephants (1984)
True Minds (1991)
User Friendly (1998)
By Any Other Name (2001)
God Is an Iron (2002)
My Favorite Shorts (2016)
Melancholy Elephants (1984)
True Minds (1991)
User Friendly (1998)
By Any Other Name (2001)
God Is an Iron (2002)
My Favorite Shorts (2016)
Anthologies edited
Best of All Possible Worlds (1980)
Kill the Editor (1991)
Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) (2017) (with James Alan Gardner)
Kill the Editor (1991)
Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) (2017) (with James Alan Gardner)
Non fiction
Anthologies containing stories by Spider Robinson
The Best from Galaxy, Volume IV (1976)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 7 (1978)
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year 1977 (1978)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 (1982)
The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984)
The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984)
Tomorrow Sucks (1994)
Virtuous Vampires (1996)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 7 (1978)
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year 1977 (1978)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 (1982)
The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984)
The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984)
Tomorrow Sucks (1994)
Virtuous Vampires (1996)
Short stories
| Overdose (1975) | |||
| By Any Other Name [short story] (1976) | Hugo | ||
| Dog Day Evening (1977) | Hugo (nominee) | ||
| Stardance [short story] (1977) (with Jeanne Robinson) | Hugo Nebula Awards | ||
| Fivesight (1979) | |||
| God Is an Iron [short story] (1979) | |||
| Have You Heard the One...? (1980) | |||
| Pyotr's Story (1981) | |||
| Serpents' Teeth (1981) | |||
| Melancholy Elephants [short story] (1982) | Hugo | ||
| Involuntary Man's Laughter (1983) |
Awards
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Spider Robinson recommends
Mindbridge (1976) Joe Haldeman "A genuine masterpiece." | Elephant Song (1982) (Circus World, book 2) Barry B Longyear "What Barry has done . . . is to take a magnificent way of life, which today seems on the verge of extinction, and fling it bodily into the future, toward immortality." |  Emergence (1984) David R Palmer "Strongly reminiscent of the best of Heinlein. This is probably the best first novel I have ever seen." | |
Jade Darcy and the Zen Pirates (1990) (Jade Darcy, book 2) Stephen Goldin and Mary Mason "You'll have to go a long way to find a more addictive heroine." |  V.I. (2000) Don DeBrandt "DeBrandt's energetic prose is vivid, graphic, and concise." | The Gravity Pilot (2011) M M Buckner "Buckner has the kind of talent and energy required to open with the greatest skydive of all time, then build to a climax. Don't start this book if being unable to stop is a problem." | |
The Hermetic Millennia (2012) (Count to the Eschaton, book 2) John C Wright "A major figure in the recent renaissance of space opera." |
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