The Crazy Years: Reflections of a Science Fiction Original

by Spider Robinson

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A collection of witty, irreverent essays on subjects running the gamut from the space program to airport bans on smoking are included in this anthology. Written by Spider Robinson, The Crazy Years takes its name from Robert A. Heinlein's designation of the last years of the 20th century and contains essays from Robinson's tenure as op-ed columnist for The Globe and Mail and from Galaxy Online. Environmentalists that place the survival of earth before the survival of humanity, the idiocy of computer designs, and the downsides of the Internet are among the subjects… (more)

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Turns out, I don't enjoy editorial writing style very much. That said, Spider Robinson's about as close as I've ever come, and this is well written indeed. (

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A collection of Robinson's columns written for the Toronto Globe & Mail. Like any such collection, the quality is uneven . . . but overall it's extraordinarily high. Robinson's prose is always elegant, his faith in humanity is refreshing, and (even if you don't agree with them) his ideas are nearly always worth listening to. (

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Spider Robinson	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Block, Lawrence	Foreword	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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A collection of witty, irreverent essays on subjects running the gamut from the space program to airport bans on smoking are included in this anthology. Written by Spider Robinson, The Crazy Years takes its name from Robert A. Heinlein's designation of the last years of the 20th century and contains essays from Robinson's tenure as op-ed columnist for The Globe and Mail and from Galaxy Online. Environmentalists that place the survival of earth before the survival of humanity, the idiocy of computer designs, and the downsides of the Internet are among the subjects

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