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Spider Robinson
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Spider Robinson is an American-born Canadian Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author. He was born in the USA, but chose to live in Canada, and gained citizenship in his adopted country in…

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I’m Brandon Sanderson, and I write stories of the fantastic: fantasy, science fiction, and thrillers.

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