Spider Robinson found the novel unsatisfying, faulting the ending as unconvincing and thematically overfamiliar.

There is an homage to Runyon that makes use of this peculiarity ( Chronic Offender by Spider Robinson ) which involves a time machine.

* 1948 – Spider Robinson, science fiction author

Spider Robinson, a colleague, friend, and admirer of Heinlein, wrote Variable Star, based on an outline and notes for a juvenile novel that Heinlein prepared in 1955.

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* Spider Robinson in his Callahan series, e. g. Lady Slings the Booze.

* The Free Lunch ( 2001 ) by Spider Robinson

The story bears many similarities in plot and concepts to Variable Star written by Spider Robinson from an incomplete outline created by Heinlein around the time this book was written, and published in 2006.

In Variable Star, a novel written by Spider Robinson based on an outline by Heinlein, the lead character is a farmer from Ganymede, where there is a Lermer City.

The name is also used in Variable Star, a novel outlined by Heinlein but written by Spider Robinson, although this novel diverges from the Future History.

" Spider Robinson, reviewing a mid-1970s reissue, faulted the novel's characterizations, saying " there are no real people in it, only psychological types and syndromes walking around on legs.

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* Lifehouse ( novel ), a science fiction novel by Spider Robinson, third in the trilogy Mindkiller-Time Pressure-Lifehouse

* Spider Robinson, science fiction writer

Haldeman, however, noted that he received a letter from Heinlein congratulating him on his Nebula Award which " meant more than the award itself " and author Spider Robinson claimed that Heinlein approached Haldeman at the award banquet and said the book " may be the best future war story I've ever read!

Spider Robinson and Sam Moskowitz have strongly criticized both.

In Variable Star, a science fiction novel written by Spider Robinson based on a story outline by Robert A. Heinlein, Robinson devotes several pages to his protagonist's discovery of Grey's Sacred Mirrors and Progress of the Soul series, and to using them to enhance meditation.

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* Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, a series of novels and vignettes by author Spider Robinson.

Spider Robinson also used it in a pair of Lord Buckley-style raps about Robert Heinlein in a short story collection.

This striking addition gave the silver screen Spider an appearance more like that of a traditional superhero, like other comics heroes being adapted for the era's movie serials ; it also made the serial Spider look less like the very popular Street and Smith pulp hero The Shadow, which also had been produced by Columbia and starred Victor Jory.

While the racing version of the 8C 2300 Spider, driven by Tazio Nuvolari won the 1931 and 1932 Targa Florio race in Sicily, the 1931 Italian Grand Prix victory at Monza gave the " Monza " name to the twin seater GP car, a shortened version of the Spider.

The series began when, as part of the controversial Clone Saga, Peter Parker gave up being Spider-Man to retire with his pregnant wife, and the Scarlet Spider took on his duties.

The series began when Peter Parker gave up being Spider-Man to retire with his pregnant wife, and the Scarlet Spider took on his duties.

The series began when Peter Parker gave up being Spider-Man to retire with his pregnant wife, and the Scarlet Spider took on his duties.

He is also used in Spider Robinson's Variable Star, a novel based on an outline of Heinlein's.

* Leila Mackinlay, Spider dance: A novel based upon incidents in the life of Lola Montez

He also appears in Phillip Mann's alternate history series A Land Fit for Heroes, Judith Tarr's fantasy series, The Hound and the Falcon and the Alamut series, Robert Carter's " The Language of Stones " series, the novel American Gods by Neil Gaiman, the books of the Welsh author Jenny Sullivan and in Jenny Nimmo's Snow Spider Trilogy.

His best known work is without doubt the short novel The Black Spider ( Die schwarze Spinne ), a semi-allegorical tale of the plague in form of the titular monster that devastates a Swiss valley community ; first as a result of a pact with the devil born out of need and a second time due to the moral decay that releases the monster from its prison again.

With Kiss of the Spider Woman ( based on the novel by Manuel Puig ) in 1992, McNally returned to the musical stage, collaborating with Kander and Ebb on a script which explores the complex relationship between two men caged together in a Latin American prison.

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Lea subsequently wrote a dramatized version of his novel that he renamed The Crimson Spider.

Heinlein admirer and science fiction author Spider Robinson titled his introductory essay " RAH DNA ", as he believes this first, unpublished novel formed the DNA of Heinlein's later works.

Spider Robinson says that the book is more a lecture series than a true novel.

Other films in this category include Seven ( 1995 ), Kiss the Girls ( 1997 ), adapted from the James Patterson novel, The Bone Collector ( 1999 ), Mercy ( 2000 ), Along Came a Spider ( 2001 ), also by Patterson, Insomnia ( 2002 ), and Taking Lives ( 2004 ).

Telempath is a science fiction novel by Spider Robinson set in a dystopian near-future in which human cities have fallen into ruin and the population has been sharply reduced.

" Spider Robinson, however, praised the novel as " delightful, with a rigorously consistent internal logic that doesn't really become apparent until the very last chapter.

A 119th Spider novel manuscript had been completed but was not published until decades later, then as a rewritten mass-market paperback ( see paperback novels section, below ).

" Python Publishing put into print the never-before-published last original Spider novel, Slaughter, Inc., originally to have been published as Spider pulp magazine # 119.