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.

Spider Robinson gave the novel a mixed review, saying that while " the book reads well.

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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.

* Spider Baby reviewed by Rick McGrath

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.

The player has a choice between 4 street fighters: Briggs, a dishonorably discharged soldier ( balanced skills ); Proof, an ex-superbike racer ( fast and charismatic but not as strong as the other characters ); Tank, a massive Japanese fighter ( very slow and uncharismatic with low defense but strong ) and the Disc Jockey Spider ( resilient but slow and uncharismatic ), although the story is the same for each of them.

The player has a choice between 4 street fighters: Briggs, a dishonorably discharged soldier ; Proof, an ex-superbike racer ; Tank, a massive Japanese fighter and the Disc Jockey Spider, although the story is the same for each of them.

The 2000 Renault Spider, although mid-engined, was designed very much in the barchetta style, and also in the barchetta tradition, as it was intended for racing.

" It is also revealed in issue # 38 that he has killed sixteen people, all but one in self-defence ; he never specifies how or why ( although it could be inferred that he means Vita Severn, as Spider feels responsible for her death ).

After Detour, although Savage starred in a half-dozen more films during the later 1940s — including Scared Stiff ( 1945 ), The Spider ( 1945 ), The Dark Horse ( 1946 ) and Satan's Cradle ( 1949 ) ( a rare Western )— her most prolific years were behind her.

Seven Soldiers # 0 featured the advent of yet another Spider, although he spelled the name " I, Spyder ".

As would be expected, the GTV has a much more rigid chassis, up to 64 % stiffer, although considerable work was done on the Spider to reduce the traditional convertible problem of scuttle shake.