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{{Short description|1964 short story by Philip K. Dick}}
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"'''Waterspider'''" is a [[science fiction]] novelette by American writer [[Philip K. Dick]], first published in the January 1964 edition of [[If (magazine)|''If'' magazine]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Waterspider |url=http://www.philipkdickfans.com/mirror/websites/pkdweb/short_stories/Waterspider.htm |website=philipkdickfans.com |access-date=July 4, 2018}}</ref>

Dick's story "Waterspider" features [[Poul Anderson]] as one of the main characters.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dozois |first1=Gardner R. |title=The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection |date=1993 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9780312094232 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N3o0gRun80sC&pg=PR28 |access-date=July 4, 2018 |language=en}}</ref> The author refers to himself and his stories "[[The Variable Man]]" and "[[The Defenders (short story)|The Defenders]]"; he also mentions several other science fiction writers of the period, including [[Murray Leinster]], [[A. E. van Vogt]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rossi |first1=Umberto |title=The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick: A Reading of Twenty Ontologically Uncertain Novels |date=2011 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786448838 |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0lA8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16 |access-date=July 4, 2018 |language=en}}</ref> [[Margaret St. Clair]], [[Jack Vance]], and [[Isaac Asimov]].

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://archive.org/details/1964-01_IF_modified Worlds of IF (January 1964)] at the [[Wayback Machine]], archived March 2, 2016.

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[[Category:Short stories by Philip K. Dick]]
[[Category:1964 short stories]]
[[Category:Works originally published in If (magazine)]]


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