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| Original Title: | Callahan's Crosstime Saloon |
| ISBN: | 0812572270 (ISBN13: 9780812572278) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Callahan's #1 |
Spider Robinson
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 224 pages Rating: 4.17 | 9814 Users | 323 Reviews
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| Title | : | Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Callahan's #1) |
| Author | : | Spider Robinson |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | December 15th 1999 by Tor Science Fiction (first published 1977) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy. Humor. Short Stories |
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Callahan's Place is the neighborhood tavern to all of time and space, where the regulars are anything but. Pull up a chair, grab a glass of your favorite, and listen to the stories spun by time travelers, cybernetic aliens, telepaths...and a bunch of regular folks on a mission to save the world, one customer at a time.Callahan's Crosstime Saloon contains the following stories, virtually all of which were published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact:
* "The Guy With the Eyes"
* "The Time-Traveler"
* "The Centipede's Dilemma"
* "Two Heads Are Better Than One"
* "The Law Of Conservation of Pain"
* "Just Dessert"
* "A Voice is Heard in Ramah..."
* "Unnatural Causes"
* "The Wonderful Conspiracy"
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Ratings: 4.17 From 9814 Users | 323 ReviewsJudgment Of Books Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Callahan's #1)
Enjoyable short stories, but not quite riveting or deeply involving. Robinson originally wrote these stories as a sort of serial for Analog magazine, and as a group, they show that heritage. Part of what works for them is the mood, a positive, friendly, "we welcome all" vibe with a little bit of accommodating wierdness. However, story to story becomes repetitive if attempted in one sitting.Where Callahan's stands apart is it's focus on struggling with the problems of existence and meaning, andThe format of a collection of short stories helped me with getting through this look into Robinson's mind, so I'm glad the book was done this way. A couple of the stories seemed to be just average, and a couple more seemed a bit above that quality, but for the most part I just felt that in the end I'm not any better or worse off for having read it. Probably won't explore much more of Callahan's stories anytime soon.
I remember reading these, but not well enough to rate them. Likely not worth rereading, and my copy is long gone, anyway. Date read is a guess.
This collection of short stories is a breezy read, infused with Robinson's empathy for all creatures and love of groan-inducing wordplay.
This is a very fun collection of short stories, and they're linked together instead of haphazardly thrown in. I want to go to this bar!The setting is very well developed. You know what this bar is like: brightly lit, no barstools, Tuesday night is for VERY bad puns, etc.Even with the weird stuff happening, like time travelers, aliens, and psychics, the stories don't just rely on gimmicks, but the characters are well developed.
If you say only one thing about this book, I believe that thing would be "fun".Spider Robinson's collection of bar stories are barely science fiction but as Ben Bova points out in his introduction, does that really matter? These anecdotes are all about encouaging growth as people and a species and taking an attitude of emapthy towads your fellow man, and they're great fun too.I have no idea why it is a "Crosstime Saloon," I'd assumed it was a bar in some kind of time & space vortex outside
It's been over 20 years since I first read this book. This meant I didn't remember the stories well enough, so they could be almost like brand new Spider Robinson stories. A real treat! This was a good book to use in "cleansing my mind" after having read something I really didn't enjoy at all. It put me back in a good mood.Spider's stories are always more about the people, and his character development in such a short space is always exemplary. His people feel things, and Callahan's is the place
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