FROM THE CRIME TO THE RIDICULOUS From the offbeat but razor-edged imagination of Spider Robinson: stranded time travelers; squabbling cosmic warriors; reincarnated rock stars; blind starship pilots; monsters both human and alien; tomorrows formed by today's trends -- this Spider weaves a web of wonder. Sound profound? Nah. Herein we've got a partially-disembodied Brooklynite looking for his, er, bottom half, a past-tense-ignoring player of a certain New York crap game from 1930 running loose in the present, a compendium of the silliest weapons history never had, and plenty more. The warped and the way-out combine in a book that by any name would be ... really cool. Contents: Melancholy Elephants (1982) Half an Oaf (1976) Antinomy (1978) Satan's Children (1979) Apogee (1978) No Renewal (1977) Tin Ear (1977) In the Olden Days (1984) Silly Weapons throughout History (1980) essay Nobody Likes to Be Lonely (1975) True Minds (1984) Common Sense (1985) Chronic Offender (1981) High Infidelity (1984) Rubber Soul (1982) The Crazy Years (1996) essay By Any Other Name (1976)
Author
Spider Robinson is an American-born Canadian Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author. He was born in the USA, but chose to live in Canada, and gained citizenship in his adopted country in 2002. Robinson's writing career began in 1972 with a sale to Analog Science Fiction magazine of a story entitled, The Guy With The Eyes. His writing proved popular, and his first novel saw print in 1976, Telempath. Since then he has averaged a novel (or collection) a year. His most well known stories are the Callahan saloon series.
