Talk:Trap Door Spiders

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[edit] Current status?

The most recent date mentioned in this article is 1976. Does this group still exist? Pimlottc 21:44, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

I've no idea. Searched the web and didn't find any definite later references, though I did find some additional information for the article, which I've added. However, since Asimov was writing Black Widowers stories pretty much up until the end of his productive writing career and never mentioned anything about the model group being defunct, I think we can presume it was at least active through the 1980s. BPK 22:52, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Per Isaac Asimov's posthumous memoir, It's Been a Good Life, edited by his wife Janet Jeppson Asimov, the group's members attended a party for him in January, 1990. So it was active through at least that date. I have now noted this in the article. BPK 07:12, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lanning

Caleb Barrett Laning, a Trap Door Spider member not used in Asimov's fiction, has appeared in the works of other science fiction writers. In Arthur C. Clarke's Robot stories he is cited Dr. Lanning, inventor of the robots, while in Robert A. Heinlein's story "Blowups Happen," about the first nuclear power plant disaster, he appears as a different Dr. Lanning.

That would be Isaac Asimov's Robot stories, yesno? --Paul A 06:26, 16 October 2006 (UTC)