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Stardance Trilogy
"Together again for the first time!"
In September, Baen Books will reprint The Stardance Trilogy by Spider and Jeanne Robinson in hardcover: all three novels of the Hugo- and Nebula-Award-winning saga about zero gravity dance and its unexpected effect on human evolution - Stardance, Starseed, and Starmind - in a single volume for the first time.
A friend of the late Virginia Heinlein recently told Spider and Jeanne Robinson it was her favourite series, and the great Algis Budrys described the first volume in the Chicago Sun-Times as "a major work, not only as entertainment, but as a literary milestone."
Coincidentally, Jeanne is presently making a short film of zero gravity dance, called "Stardance," which she hopes to premiere as part of the celebrations of Robert Heinlein's centennial in 2007, in collaboration with a team of most impressive talent and experience.
Visit the Stardance Project to learn how you can participate - and get a card of thanks from both the Heinleins and the Robinsons!
- To Be Published: Sep 2006
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The Crazy Years
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.
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 Robinson uses to take the world to task.
- First Published: Dec 2004
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Very Bad Deaths
Aging baby-boomer Russell Walker wants only to retreat from the world and the shattering death of his wife, into the woods of British Columbia.
Instead, the hermit finds himself thrust into a frightening predicament, as the only possible intermediary between a telepath called Smelly, so sensitive he can't stand to be near most people, and Constable Nika, a skeptical police officer who needs to hear-and believe-what Smelly knows about a particularly monstrous sadist and serial killer.
- First Published: Nov 2004
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Callahan's Con
The tenth and newest book set in the Mike Callahan universe.
The twice-transplanted patrons of Callahan's Place attracted a collection of local zanies so quintessentially Key West pixilated that they made the New York originals seem, well, almost normal. The elfin little Key deer, for instancewith a stevedore's mouth; or the merman with eczema; or Robert Heinlein's teleporting cat.
For ten slow, merry years, life was good. The sun shone, the coffee dripped, the breeze blew just strongly enough to dissipate the smell of the puns, and little supergenius Erin grew to the verge of adolescence.
Then disaster struck.
- First Published: Jul 2003
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God Is An Iron And Other Stories
A quality hardcover collection of Spider's own personal favorites from his short work over the past thirty years.
The Table of Contents includes "Stardance" and "Melancholy Elephants" (both Hugo Award winners), plus "God Is An Iron," "Soul Search," "Local Champ," "Orphans of Eden," "Not Fade Away," "In the Olden Days," "Rubber Soul," and "The Magnificent Conspiracy".
- First Published: May 2002
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The Free Lunch
A novel of near-future adventure.
Twelve-year-old genius Mike, fleeing a life that's become unendurable, literally takes refuge in a dreamworld: he goes underground at Dreamworld, the world's biggest and best high-tech amusement park, a place so magical he hopes to live there, in hiding, forever. Fortunately he's taken under the wing of Annie, a wise old midget who's been "under" for thirteen years now, quietly backstopping the park's maintenance crews.
But as Annie's showing Mike the ropes, Very Strange Things begin happening in Dreamworld.
For one thing, more employees are now leaving at night than entered during the day... and some of them are armed, and quietly stalking each other! Only Annie and Mike are in a position to investigate...and slowly grasp the incredible truth, about a scheme that - unless they prevent it - will change everything, forever.
If it turns out there is such a thing as a Free Lunch...do we dare eat it? A midget recluse and a runaway preteen genius must decide the ultimate fate of a world they've both rejected...
- First Published: Aug 2001
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By Any Other Name
All of Spider's short work that isn't already collected in User Friendly (also a Baen paperback), plus a little nonfiction for good measure, from "Future Tense," Spider's regular column in Canada's national newspaper, The Globe And Mail.
The book opens and closes with two Hugo-winning stories: the title story, later expanded into the novel Telempath, and "Melancholy Elephants."
- First Published: Feb 2001
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Callahan's Key
The ninth book in the Callahan's Place/Mary's Place/Lady Sally's House continuum.
This time Jake and Zoey Stonebender and their barfly friends, having saved the world twice already, all leave Long Island together and relocate permanently in Key West, Florida, where they attempt to help Nikola Tesla save, not the world - but the entire universe.
Fortunately they have the help of Jake and Zoey's infant daughter Erin... and Robert A. Heinlein's cat... and a whole lot of Irish whiskey.
- First Published: Jul 2000
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User Friendly
With his Heinlein-influenced, solidly scientific, warmly human stories, Spider Robinson has won every major award that the science fiction field has to offer.
"User Friendly" is a solid chunk of Spider's universe that is both "reader" friendly and "sales" friendly.
- First Published: Feb 1998
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The Star Dancers (with Jeanne Robinson)
Two complete (related) novels in one volume: Stardance (1979) and Starseed (1991), both written in collaboration with Jeanne Robinson.
Both books involve zero gravity dance, and the arts in space generally, and the surprising role they play in helping mankind safely evolve to the next stage: homo caelestis.
(Jeanne is a former dancer/choreographer, and was founder/artistic director of Halifax's legendary Nova Dance Theatre.)
The third and final volume in this series, Starmind (1995), has been reprinted by Baen.
After more than 25 years and umpty zillion words, these are the three books of which Robinson is most proud.
- First Published: Sep 1997
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