Trap Door Spiders

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The Trap Door Spiders are a literary, male-only eating, drinking, and arguing society in New York City, with a membership historically composed of notable science fiction personalities. The name is a reference to the reclusive habits of the trapdoor spider, which when it enters its burrow pulls the hatch shut behind it.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Asimov, Isaac. I. Asimov, a Memoir, New York, Doubleday, 1994, page 377. ISBN 978-0-385-41701-3.
  2. ^ Sullivan, Walter. "Willy Ley, Prolific Science Writer, Is Dead at 62," in The New York Times, June 25, 1969, page 47.
  3. ^ De Camp, L. Sprague. Time and Chance: an Autobiography, Hampton Falls, NH, Donald M. Grant, 1996, page 196. ISBN 978-1-880418-32-1.