Waterspider

"Waterspider" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in the January 1964 edition of If magazine.^[1]

Dick's story "Waterspider" features Poul Anderson as one of the main characters.^[2] The author refers to himself and his stories "The Variable Man" and "The Defenders"; he also mentions several other science fiction writers of the period, including Murray Leinster, A. E. van Vogt,^[3] Margaret St. Clair, Jack Vance, and Isaac Asimov.