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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. Holder of a bachelor's degree in English
from the State University of New York, he worked as a folksinger
and journalist before publishing his first story in "Analog "in
1973. 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.
Eleven of his 31 books are set in Callahan's Place, a fabulous
tavern founded by a time traveler, where puns flow as freely as
beer, and smell far worse. The most recent is" Callahan's Con" [Tor
July 2003]. He has contributed a regular editorial column, "Future
Tense," to Canada's national newspaper, " The Globe & Mail," since
1995. 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.
"Nobody's perfect. But Spider comes pretty damned close."--Ben
Bova
"If one were ever give the task of creating Spider Robinson from
scratch, the best way to do it would be to snatch James Joyce from
history, force-feed him Marx Brothers films and good jazz for the
better part of a decade, then turn him loose on a world badly in
need of a look at itself."--"Vancouver Sun"
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