"Doc" Smith, but there are undoubtedly many other influences. His writing style is clearly influenced by Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, and E.E. He quickly became well-known in the science fiction community for the short stories he wrote for a science fiction magazine of the time, although his work has been known to cause science fiction purists to turn up their noses, and even (in at least one known case) cancel their subscriptions to Analog, the magazine his stories were first printed in. He got his start writing as a way to pass the time while working a night job, guarding a sewage project in New York (as he puts it, "guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it."). He has won nearly all of the coveted science fiction awards over the course of his career at one time or another. While not as prolific as some of the other authors in the field, he achieves a level of quality above and beyond the norm. Spider Robinson is one of the most-beloved contemporary science fiction authors of our generation.
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