Birth Announcement! 
Marisa Alegria da Silva arrived on planet Earth on May 28th at 1:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, weighing 8 pounds 5, long and lean and hairy and impeccably beautiful in all respects. Mother and child are both in good health, save for a minor fever that showed up at the last possible second, controlled easily by antibiotics. Terri was in labor for 36 hours, beating her mom's record by 8 hours. She's exhausted but exceedingly happy....as is everyone here, especially her husband Heron.
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• Spider has won the 2008 Robert A. Heinlein Award for Lifetime Excellence in Literature!
This year’s co-winners of the 2008 Robert A. Heinlein Award for Lifetime Excellence in Literature were announced at the 66th World Science Fiction Convention, Denvention 3; they are Ben Bova...and Spider Robinson.
...and more happy Heinleinian news!
Most readers who’ve responded to VARIABLE STAR by Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson have expressed strong desire to know what happened next. Spider is delighted to report his agent Eleanor Wood has, in the worst times in sf publishing history, sold Tor Books not just one but three sequels to VARIABLE STAR, to be known collectively as The Orphan Stars Trilogy. For more information, listen to Spider On The Web #59.
• SPIDER'S LATEST NOVEL IS HERE!
Baen Books has released Spider’s latest novel, VERY HARD CHOICES, the sequel to VERY BAD DEATHS, in hardcover, with another striking cover painting by Stephen Hickman, and another great cover quote by David Crosby.
Smelly is a hermit by necessity. He's the world's most receptive telepath--and it hurts. His old college roommate Russell, a Sixties survivor entering his sixties, is one of the few people Smelly can stand to be near. But now sinister government forces are after them both for unknown dark purposes, and Smelly and Russell must depend on Nika, one of the straightest cops in the world, to help them and Russell's visiting son Jesse dodge deadly peril in the dark. Before long Russell finds himself literally up Howe Sound without a paddle--and with a collapsed lung....
Read Cory Doctorow's review of VERY HARD CHOICES at Boing Boing. Permalink.
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