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

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

I remember him...he was good, (for a white guy). Read a bunch of his 
earlier stuff which was fairly good when he finally got around to 
telling a story....even if you had to learn a bit too much about the 
author along the way.
Thanks Mike.....PF

Mike Spencer wrote:

>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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