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Title	:	Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Callahan's #1)
Author	:	Spider Robinson
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	December 15th 1999 by Tor Science Fiction (first published 1977)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy. Humor. Short Stories

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Callahan's #1) Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

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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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Original Title:	Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
ISBN:	0812572270 (ISBN13: 9780812572278)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Callahan's #1

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Ratings: 4.17 From 9814 Users | 323 Reviews

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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, and

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.

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

The book is a collection of nine short stories all taking place in a Long Island bar called Callahan's Saloon. The book became very popular after its publication, but slowly faded into obscurity so I feel I have to explain what exactly this place is. Callahan's is a place which is only found by those who need to find it. Its patrons are special kind of understanding people that can listen to anybody who wants to share their pain - without being nosy or pushy. In other words you only tell your

If anyone ever suggests that SF has nothing to say about the human condition, you could do a lot worse than point them towards Spider Robinson.Callaghan's Crosstime Saloon (1977) - the first of many collections of stories he's produced about a very special Long Island Bar - is by some lights barely in the genre at all. The tropes it does employ - little green men, time travel, telepathy - seem in most of the tales to be window dressing for solving a patron's problems. Taking the first story as

This is one of my most-read books, and obviously an old favorite. It has informed huge parts of my personal philosophy, and has provided comfort in hard times. It also has some of the most gods-awful puns you will ever read, as well as some spectacular shaggy-dog stories. Sadly, on this reading, many of the flaws stood out to me.The stories have not aged too badly, but there is a post-hippie, middle-class smugness that settles upon the whole. It's a little tough to deal with a self-satisfied

Come for the review, stay for the pun.(Fans of Spider Robinson will, I hope, get it.)