Spider Robinson was born on November 24,1948 and is an American-born Canadian science fiction author.
18 Facts About Spider Robinson
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Spider Robinson has won a number of awards for his hard science fiction and humorous stories, including the Hugo Award 1977 and 1983, and another Hugo with his co-author and wife Jeanne Robinson in 1978.
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Spider Robinson was an avid reader of science fiction, and it was his early childhood exposure to the juvenile novels of Robert Heinlein that later influenced him to become a writer.
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Spider Robinson attended a Catholic high school, spending his junior year in a seminary; this was followed by two years in a Catholic college, and five years at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in the 1960s, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in English.
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In 1971, just out of college, Spider Robinson took a night job guarding sewers in New York City, and wanting a career change, began writing science fiction.
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Spider Robinson made his first short-story sale in 1972 to Analog Science Fiction magazine.
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In 1973, Spider Robinson moved to Nova Scotia and began writing full-time.
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Spider Robinson made several short-story sales to Analog, Galaxy Science Fiction magazine, and others, earning the John Campbell Award for best new writer in 1974.
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Spider Robinson worked as a book reviewer for Galaxy magazine during the mid-to-late 1970s.
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In 1977, Spider Robinson released Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, a collection of short stories in his long-running Callahan's series.
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Similarly important to Robinson is writer Donald E Westlake and Westlake's most famous character, John Dortmunder.
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In 1992, Spider Robinson was master-of-ceremonies for the Hugo Awards at MagiCon, the World Science Fiction Convention in Orlando, Florida.
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In 2004, Robinson began working on a seven-page 1955 novel outline by the late Robert A Heinlein to expand it into a novel.
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Spider Robinson has resided in Canada for nearly 40 years, primarily in the provinces of Nova Scotia and British Columbia.
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Spider Robinson became a Canadian citizen in 2002, retaining his American citizenship.
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Spider Robinson suffered a heart attack on August 31,2013, but recovered.
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In 2013, Spider Robinson reported on his website that work on his next book Orphan Stars was progressing, albeit slowly.
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Spider Robinson was named a Guest of Honor at the 76th World Science Fiction Convention in 2018.