📘 Variable Star by Spider Robinson & Robert A. Heinlein — a thrilling space adventure blending classic sci-fi with heart & humor.
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#Heinlein #SpiderRobinson #BookLovers #PangoBooks #indybookstore
#SpiderRobinson #Callahan'sCrossTimeSaloon
#Filk
Love me some painful puns. #SpiderRobinson for life
I've found reading #TheCallahanChronicles by #SpiderRobinson very helpful when I'm feeling depressed.
Book cover for "Callahan's Lady" by Spider Robinson Elegant upscale fictional brothel, where sex is art and the working folks are artists. Wholesome, funny, terrifying, and wonderful in turn.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
11/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
#SpiderRobinson
#Callahan'sLady
#NoSleazeFleasOrSocialDisease
Cover from the book "Calahan's Crosstime Saloon" by Spider Robinson - memorable characters from the book are featured
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
2/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
#SpiderRobinson #Callahan's
I just got gifted an autographed copy of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon from Spider Robinson's personal stash, watch Spider Robinson play guitar, sip a pour of Bushmills with him, and smoke a bowl with him.
Can't stop smiling!!
#SpiderRobinson #CallahanChronicles #JakeStonebender
#Fangirling
"Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers." 💙📚
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
Day 2
#SpiderRobinson
How many of us could really use a map to Callahan's right about now?
#ThePlace #Callahans #SpiderRobinson
SPIDER ROBINSON, nearly 20 years since his last long form fiction: This audible of his penultimate novel is highly recommended! He is a very good narrator. Don't Miss. #SpiderRobinson #ScienceFiction #Science #Telepathy #adventure #books #Canada #Stories #Vancouver #BritishColumbia #speech #gem
On my way out the door, I would like to take this opportunity to mention in print for the first time something not many know about: when it first came out, The Princess Bride stiffed, another case of a great book not reaching the right audience successfully. I adored the book, and happened to be editing a story collection for Jim Baen (whose idea it was) called The Best Of All Possible Worlds, in which I reprinted a whack of my favorite stories that nobody else seemed to have ever heard of, paired with a Favorite Story of each of those authors, who included Robert Heinlein, Ted Sturgeon, Larry Niven, Bob Sheckley, Dean Ing and others. The one piece that was not a short story but a single scene, a novel excerpt, was The Duel Scene On The Cliffs Of Insanity from The Princess Bride by William Goldman. (Which I had found by Dumb Luck in a Bookmobile Bus just across the street from the Bay Of Fundy in Nova Scotia, where I then lived.) My agent got me his home phone number; I called him and explained the anthology I was creating, for which I would ask him to pick one of his Favorite Unknown Stories. Bill loved the idea, and asked which book of his I was planning to excerpt. When I told him, he freaked out, did a Jim Rockford Rotation, instant 180°, and withdrew his consent. "Forget it," he said. "That's my baby, my favorite thing. I'll never sell that for gold again. I tried, it didn't work. That hurt. Pick anything else. Please." I don't suppose I've ever been more eloquently effective with zero preparation; I talked myself blue in the face, managed to convince Bill I loved his story as much as he did. It helped that I almost did. I told him, let me bring this to the SF/Fantasy audience, and I really think it'll go back into print. It'll make up for the peanuts I can pay you for the privilege. He said what the hell, take your shot. I put it in the book, which sold well, it drew the largest share of the fan mail, and the next year Judy-Lynn Del Rey, one of the most astute editors the field has ever had, brought out a new paperback edition of Bride, and pushed it hard, resulting in huge sales, a book that has never been out of print again, and a very lucrative movie deal. Bill called me when he signed for it, and thanked me for striking the match that lit the fuse. I cherish that memory. It impressed my wife, who loved the book as much as I did. That was a memorable night—thanks, Bill!
Wait, #SpiderRobinson is why #ThePrincessBride had a second shot, ever got a 2nd paperback edition, and became what it is?? (Obvs also thanks to Judy-Lynn and of course the guy who wrote it?) Source: from spiderrobinson.com/blog.html last part of entry 73
