@ASegar I will. One of the things I love about his books is all the Easter eggs he puts in there for his bowen island friends and neighbours:In Variable Star, the book he finished for Robert Heinlein, he has a character who is an engineer, a musician and the community builder on the star ship. The officer is called Sparks Riley and he has an almost mystical relationship to the number pi. He has it memorized to a huge number of decimal places and it’s a core part of his identity This is a reference to a kid who grew up next door to Spider, named Riley Sparks (who is now a journalist). He comes from a musical family (his mom is a gifted piano player who accompanies all the community choirs). When he was little he was learning how to bake and he used to always bring things over for Spider and Jeannie. He got really good at - you guessed it - baking pie. Spider’s work is universal, but he deeply references people and places around here. He’s a lovely, quirky, tender, and brilliant man.
