SpiderRobinson.com
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Welcome to Spider Robinson's Official Website
Description
(from OTHER VOICES, OTHER DOORS (Fairwood Press, November 2000), a collection of stories, essays and poems, © 2000 by Patrick O'Leary, all rights reserved. This essay posted here by permission of the author.)
I'll share with you one of those embarrassing moments that only become embarrassing in retrospect. I was at a party several years ago and a biologist said I ought to read somebody called "Spider Robinson." I thought: Spider. Spider? How can anyone named "Spider" write anything important? I mean, Gustave, Graham, Vladimir, O.K. (You'll notice I was on a first name basis with some pretty heavy hitters.) And sure, I genuflect before the artistry of Gene (Wolfe) and Jim (Morrow) and Ursula (K. Le Guin) and Octavia (E. Butler) to name a few still on the batting roster. But "Spider?"
So with that cringe and confession aside, and armed with my aftknowledge of one of the warmest, cleverest and funniest yarn weavers I've ever had the privilege to read, I will join my persuasive biologist friend and attempt to tag team that most elusive reader, the One Who Knows Better, whose prejudices are so vulnerable they require continual confirmation, whose opinions are so unsullied by experience he never thinks anything that hasn't been thought by a quorum, whose taste is so calcified it only recognizes variations on previous pleasures: in other words, my former self. If I could, I would say something like this to him.
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