He made his first short-story sale in 1972 to Analog Science Fiction magazine. In 1971, just out of college, Robinson took a night job guarding sewers in New York City, and wanting a career change, began writing science fiction. Robinson adopted the name out of admiration for blues musician "Spider" John Koerner. It was at this time that his friends, at his request, stopped calling him his childhood nickname of "Robbie" (a simple contraction of his last name, Robinson) and gave him the nickname "Spider", which he eventually adopted as his official first name. While at Stony Brook, Spider entertained at campus coffeehouses and gatherings, strumming his guitar and singing in harmony with his female partner. He attended a Catholic high school, spending his junior year in a seminary this was followed by two years in a Catholic college, and five years at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in the 1960s, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in English. He was an avid reader of science fiction, and it was his early childhood exposure to the juvenile novels of Robert Heinlein that later influenced him to become a writer. Robinson was born in the Bronx, New York City his father was a salesman. He has won a number of awards for his hard science fiction and humorous stories, including the Hugo Award 19, and another Hugo with his co-author and wife Jeanne Robinson in 1978. Spider Robinson (born November 24, 1948) is an American-born Canadian science fiction author.
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