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C. A. Bridges (Jeanne and Spider Robinson, Necronomicon 2004)

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Science fiction author Spider Robinson was born in the Bronx, New York on November 24, 1948. He received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the State University of New York. He began writing professionally in 1972 and has won numerous awards including three Hugos, one Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He is best known for his Callahan stories and for the Stardance Sequence, which he co-wrote with his wife Jeanne Robinson. He was selected by the Heinlein Prize Trust to write Variable Star, a novel based on a 1955 outline created by Robert A. Heinlein. He also worked as a book reviewer for Galaxy, Analog, and New Destinies magazines and his opinion column Future Tense has appeared in The Globe and Mail since 1996. In 2001, he released Belaboring the Obvious, a CD featuring original music. He currently lives in Bowen Island, Brisith Columbia, Canada with his wife. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon… (more)
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Spider Robinson (b. 1948), American born science fiction author; resides in Canada; since 2002 he has had dual American and Canadian citizenship; has used the pen name B.D. Wyatt

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon 1,445 copies, 34 reviews
Variable Star (Author) 1,189 copies, 42 reviews
Callahan's Lady 1,019 copies, 14 reviews
Time Travelers Strictly Cash 905 copies, 9 reviews
Lady Slings the Booze 895 copies, 15 reviews
Stardance 786 copies, 9 reviews
The Callahan Touch 770 copies, 4 reviews
Callahan's Secret 761 copies, 6 reviews
Callahan's Legacy 705 copies, 6 reviews
Callahan's Key 703 copies, 8 reviews
Telempath 642 copies, 5 reviews
Callahan's Con 549 copies, 15 reviews
Mindkiller 483 copies, 3 reviews
Time Pressure 446 copies, 4 reviews
User Friendly 408 copies, 5 reviews
Starseed 391 copies, 2 reviews
The Free Lunch 364 copies, 6 reviews
By Any Other Name 351 copies, 4 reviews
Starmind 335 copies, 3 reviews
Very Bad Deaths 331 copies, 8 reviews
Lifehouse 305 copies, 6 reviews
Night of Power 276 copies, 7 reviews
Melancholy Elephants 234 copies, 5 reviews
Deathkiller 222 copies, 1 review
Off the Wall at Callahan's 222 copies, 6 reviews
Antinomy 166 copies
Very Hard Choices 160 copies, 9 reviews
The Star Dancers 118 copies
The Best of All Possible Worlds 81 copies, 2 reviews
Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty (Editor) 45 copies, 18 reviews
The Lifehouse Trilogy 44 copies, 2 reviews
Kill the Editor 18 copies, 1 review
Stardance [short fiction] 9 copies, 1 review
Pyotr's Story 4 copies
Not Fade Away 3 copies
El asesino de mentes 3 copies, 1 review
Overdose 3 copies
Half an Oaf 3 copies
No Renewal 3 copies
Apogee 2 copies
Tin Ear 2 copies
Rubber Soul 2 copies
For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs (Introduction, some editions) 1,372 copies, 33 reviews
Requiem (Contributor) 719 copies, 4 reviews
There Will Be War (Contributor) 259 copies
''All You Zombies - -'' | Five Classic Stories (Narrator, some editions) 224 copies, 14 reviews
The Hugo Winners: Volume Four (1976-1979) (Contributor) 214 copies, 2 reviews
Tales from the Spaceport Bar (Contributor) 174 copies, 2 reviews
Tomorrow Sucks (Contributor) 109 copies
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7 (Contributor) 107 copies, 1 review
Still I Persist in Wondering (Introduction, some editions) 105 copies, 2 reviews
The Best from Galaxy Volume IV (Contributor) 102 copies
Nebula Winners Thirteen (Contributor) 101 copies
Pulling Through (Introduction, some editions) 96 copies, 3 reviews
Christmas Stars (Contributor) 94 copies, 2 reviews
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 (Contributor) 93 copies, 1 review
Gordon R. Dickson's SF Best (Introduction, some editions) 93 copies
New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction (Contributor) 84 copies, 2 reviews
The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction (Contributor) 72 copies, 1 review
Tales from the Planet Earth (Contributor) 64 copies
Virtuous Vampires (Contributor) 52 copies
Tesseracts 1 (Contributor) 49 copies, 1 review
Analog Annual (Contributor) 46 copies
Tales by Moonlight II (Contributor) 43 copies
Haight Ashbury Flashbacks (Introduction, some editions) 39 copies, 1 review
Chrysalis (Contributor) 36 copies, 1 review
Touch Wood (Contributor) 33 copies, 1 review
Tales in Time (Contributor) 31 copies, 1 review
New Voices II: The Campbell Award Nominees (Author) 28 copies, 1 review
Distant Early Warnings (Contributor) 27 copies
The Bakka anthology (Introduction) 21 copies
Chrysalis 4 (Contributor) 20 copies
Ark of Ice (Contributor) 15 copies, 1 review
Analog 4 (Contributor) 8 copies
ULLSTEIN 2000 SF STORIES 80 (Contributor) 4 copies
I Premi Hugo 1976-1983 (Contributor) 3 copies
Omni Magazine April 1982 (Contributor) 2 copies
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Spider Robinson (b. 1948), American born science fiction author; resides in Canada; since 2002 he has had dual American and Canadian citizenship; has used the pen name B.D. Wyatt

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