[TheForge] [YAK] Re: Books 'n stuff (Was: Fire Steel)

[Mike Spencer]

Frosty> Man would it be refreshing to get to read a NEW Heinlein
Frosty> novel. <sigh>

me> Well Frosty, Spider Robinson may be able to help you with that:
me>
me>     http://www.spiderrobinson.com/books.htm


PeteF> Is this the same Spider Robinson who was a blues singer in the 
PeteF> 60s?

Well, his bio reads (in part):

    Morgue Attendant
        Central General Hospital, Plainview, N.Y., 1965 
    
    Folksinger
        assorted dives in the N.Y.-L.I. area, 1966-71 
    
    Night Watchman
        guarding a sewer, Babylon, N.Y., 1971-72 
    
and in an interview he said:

    "Originally, this writing thing was just a sideline until I
    could be what I really wanted -- the sensitive folk/blues
    musician who gets all the girls," Robinson says, offering a
    glimpse of himself at 22. "Then some fool invented disco, so
    I needed an alternative romantic image. 'Starving writer'
    was the one that worked for me." 

More here:

    http://www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/spiderrobinson4.html

So, yes.

And AFAIK, his rendition of _Variable Star_ from Heinlein's notes is
in progress.

- Mike

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