Spider Robinson Books in Order

An experiment intensifies humanity’s sense of smell so drastically that civilization collapses and gaseous beings become perceptible. As surviving communities wage war against these creatures, a one-armed man wanted for his father’s murder may offer a means of reconciliation.

At Mike Callahan’s unusual saloon, regulars exchange stories and dreadful puns while welcoming troubled strangers from Earth and beyond. These linked tales explore how an eccentric community helps human and alien visitors confront loneliness, grief, and personal crises.

Unable to pursue the dancing career she wants on Earth, Shara Drummond develops a new art form in zero gravity. Her work in orbit takes on unexpected importance when humanity needs a way to communicate with arriving aliens.

Eleven speculative stories follow dangerous time-machine purchases, world-changing experiments, and bargains whose apparent benefits conceal costly consequences. Songs, puns, and other short pieces accompany adventures in which ingenuity and humor meet unsettling questions about survival.

This collection mixes stories from Callahan’s unusual bar with other fiction and essays. A talking, gin-drinking German shepherd and visitors with strange abilities join the regulars, whose wordplay and mutual support accompany encounters across time and space.

A professor recovering from a suicide attempt and a burglar who discovers a woman addicted to electrical brain stimulation become part of intertwined stories. Their experiences expose disturbing possibilities for manipulating minds, memories, and the pursuit of pleasure.

These science fiction stories explore a universe where memories can last centuries and humanity has fulfilled its vast potential. With space’s farthest frontiers conquered, their characters confront the possibilities and pressures that remain in an extraordinary cosmic world.

An interracial Canadian family visiting New York becomes caught in a violent racial uprising in an imagined 1996. Their encounters with its charismatic leader draw them into political conspiracy as survival and divided loyalties become urgent personal questions.

Callahan’s regulars include telepaths, a talking dog, and a vampire struggling with alcohol. When their alien friend Mickey Finn faces enslavement by a visitor from another galaxy, the saloon’s community confronts a threat extending beyond one patron.

Living in rural Nova Scotia in the early 1970s, draft evader Sam Meade finds an unconscious woman in the snow. Believing her to be a time traveler, he helps Rachel and becomes entangled in her dangerous, reality-crossing mission.

These collected Callahan stories introduce a bar where human and extraordinary visitors find companionship amid pun contests and unusual crises. Familiar tales, including The Guy with the Eyes and The Time-Traveller, explore the regulars’ responses to troubled strangers.

Lady Sally rescues a young woman from a violent pimp and brings her into an unusual household centered on her brothel. Maureen discovers safety and unexpected companions while confronting the damage of her past and threats to her refuge.

Injuries force dancer Rain McLeod to abandon her career on Earth, so she joins a program offering life in space through alien symbiosis. Her hoped-for transformation encounters opposition from religious groups and governments threatened by the Stardancers.

Unlucky private investigator Joe Quigley finds a fresh opportunity at Lady Sally’s establishment, where customers need not be human. Telepathy, Nikola Tesla, and a nuclear terrorist complicate life in a household devoted to pleasure, courtesy, and mutual care.

Jake Stonebender opens Mary’s Place to the displaced regulars of Callahan’s former bar. The new establishment soon attracts equally unusual visitors, including a drunken leprechaun, as Jake works to preserve the community and spirit of its predecessor.

Drawn from the first five Callahan volumes, this illustrated collection gathers sayings, puns, observations, and songs associated with the bar’s graffiti. Phil Foglio’s artwork accompanies the selections, with brief biographies identifying the real and fictional people quoted.

Rand Porter receives an extraordinary job offer with an orbital dance company, but his novelist wife Rhea feels rooted to Cape Cod. Their marital dilemma unfolds while mysterious changes across the solar system signal a pivotal moment for human evolution.

Jake Stonebender and the former Callahan regulars face another extraterrestrial threat to Earth. Their ability to join minds becomes crucial as the community’s familiar storytelling, puns, and mutual support accompany the effort to confront an alien’s destructive intentions.

June returns from a walk unaware that part of her memory has vanished. A message she left on Paul’s answering machine preserves evidence of what happened, sending the partners in crime searching for someone capable of editing human memories.

An alien inhabits a wife, wealthy people hire killers to end their lives, and a lover hopes to alter Halley’s comet. These science fiction stories explore strange relationships, deceptive time travelers, and the complications of seemingly useful inventions.

Jake Stonebender, his family, and the bar’s eccentric community relocate to Key West. A malfunctioning defense system threatens the universe, drawing them into an effort involving Nikola Tesla and Jake’s unusually gifted young daughter to prevent catastrophe.

Stranded time travelers and unusual spacefarers collide with cosmic warriors and creatures that feed on hallucinations. A partly disembodied Brooklynite’s search for himself joins adventures involving an old New York gambler and blind starship pilots.

Teenage runaway Mike hides behind the scenes at Dreamworld, hoping the theme park can shelter him from his troubles. There he meets another runaway and investigates mysterious troll-like figures entering the park from an unknown source.

Widower Russell Walker’s retreat in British Columbia is interrupted by a hypersensitive telepath who knows about a sadistic killer. Russell must connect him with a skeptical police officer so their uneasy partnership can prevent further murders.

A mobster demanding protection money threatens Jake Stonebender’s Key West bar, while his wife disappears into a space-time anomaly. Jake and his eccentric regulars confront these overlapping problems in an adventure also involving the legendary Fountain of Youth.

Collected essays from The Globe and Mail and Galaxy Online present Spider Robinson’s opinions on contemporary culture and technology. Topics include space exploration, environmentalism, computer design, the Internet, and smoking restrictions, approached through humor and provocative commentary.

Based on a long‑lost Heinlein outline, this novel follows young musician Joel Johnston, who flees a suffocating engagement by signing onto a colony starship. The voyage forces him to face heartbreak, deep‑space hazards, and the kind of man he wants to become.

Russell Walker and police officer Nika discover that protecting their telepathic friend means confronting the CIA’s pursuit of him. Russell’s estranged son arrives amid the danger, forcing all three to weigh family obligations, friendship, professional duty, and national loyalty.

Visits from possible future selves, disguised aliens, and a resurrected John Lennon bring unexpected encounters into these selected stories. Four songs and personal recollections accompany tales of hope, pain, and relationships shaped by extraordinary circumstances.