Person · Open Library
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- 79
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1946-08-15
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Spider Robinson is best known (widely acclaimed in fact) as a writer of science fiction. However he was a folk singer/songwriter for years before becoming an author and never did stop either performing or writing music. Often performing concerts and less formal performances at science fiction conventions. His lyrics are generally either quite funny or quite touching, sometimes both at the same time, and as with his prose, the man takes a certain act we are all guilty of and embarassed for enjoy
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,669x
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 20,439x
- Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
· 2009 · cited 18,973x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,955x
- Integrative genomics viewer
· 2011 · cited 14,800x
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Quotes
- “Would he grow up to be Maker, Taker, or Faker?”
- “Okay, I grant you the provisional status of human beings. Let’s deal.”
- “I mean, progress is something with no pity and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew and spits out things you can’t understand and the only value it seems to have is to make a few people a lot of money. What the hell is the sense of progress anyway?”
- “Just as there are Laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed.But one can be converted into the other.”
- “She was pretty enough to make a preacher kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”
- “A man should live forever, or die trying.”
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