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Callahan's Crosstime Saloon is the neighborhood tavern to all of time and space, where the regulars are anything but. These time travelers, talking dogs, alcoholic vampires, and cybernetic aliens really, truly care about each other. It's the rare kind of place where bad puns are as appreciated as good conversation.
Time Travelers Strictly Cash is their policy. Lay your money on the bar, name your poison, step up to the line drawn on the barroom floor, and after drinking make a toast and throw the glass into the fireplace. It's an odd tradition but one that's led to some interesting stories.
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Russell Walker retreats from the shock of his wife's death by becoming a hermit in the woods of British Columbia. There he finds himself thrust into a precarious role as intermediary between a telepath called Smelly, so sensitive he can't stand to be near most people, and Constable Hilda, a skeptical police officer who needs Smelly's insight to track down a monstrous serial killer.
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a bit unpleasant
- By CARL V PHILLIPS on 05-15-08
By: Spider Robinson
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Stardance
- By: Spider Robinson, Jeanne Robinson
- Narrated by: Spider Robinson
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Shara Drummond was a gifted dancer and a brilliant choreographer, but she could not pursue her dream of dancing on Earth. So she went to space, creating a new art form in three dimensions. And when the aliens arrived, there was only one way to prove that the human race deserved not just to survive, but to reach the stars. The only hope was Shara, with her stardance.
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Utterly ridiculous
- By Randall on 04-25-09
By: Spider Robinson, and others
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Variable Star
- By: Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson
- Narrated by: Spider Robinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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At his death in 1988, Robert A. Heinlein left a legacy that almost single-handedly defined modern science fiction. But one of Heinlein's masterpieces was never finished. In 1955, he began work on Variable Star, a powerful and passionate tale of two young lovers driven apart by pride, power, and the vastness of interstellar time and space. Now, the Heinlein estate has authorized award-winning author Spider Robinson to expand his outline into a full-length novel. And the result is vintage Heinlein.
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Spider WHO
- By Randall on 04-25-09
By: Robert A. Heinlein, and others
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The Draco Tavern
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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When a tremendous spacecraft takes orbit around Earth's moon and begins sending smaller landers down toward the North Pole, the newly arrived visitors quickly set up a permanent spaceport in Siberia. Their presence attracts many, including Rick Schumann, who establishes a tavern catering to all the various species of visiting aliens, a place he calls the Draco Tavern. From the mind of best-selling author Larry Niven come 27 tales and vignettes from this interstellar gathering place.
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A Great Listen
- By D. Arkless on 04-07-07
By: Larry Niven
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A World Out of Time
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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After more than two hundred years as a corpsicle, Jaybee Corbell awoke in someone else’s body and under threat of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars. But Corbell bided his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core.
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Do you know how people get old?
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-13-12
By: Larry Niven
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The Free Lunch
- By: Spider Robinson
- Narrated by: Spider Robinson
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Mike and Annie, refugees from the world outside, find a home underground, behind the scenes of Dreamworld, a theme park where hope exists as it does nowhere else. But Dreamworld is threatened by a jealous competitor who kills what he can’t have. As if this were not trouble enough, the two discover that each day there are more of the “trolls” who maintain Dreamworld than there were the day before. As the trolls continue to multiply, they must discover why, or it could mean the end of Dreamworld - and the real world.
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Just ok
- By Keith on 04-12-14
By: Spider Robinson
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Very Bad Deaths
- By: Spider Robinson
- Narrated by: Spider Robinson
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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Russell Walker retreats from the shock of his wife's death by becoming a hermit in the woods of British Columbia. There he finds himself thrust into a precarious role as intermediary between a telepath called Smelly, so sensitive he can't stand to be near most people, and Constable Hilda, a skeptical police officer who needs Smelly's insight to track down a monstrous serial killer.
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a bit unpleasant
- By CARL V PHILLIPS on 05-15-08
By: Spider Robinson
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Stardance
- By: Spider Robinson, Jeanne Robinson
- Narrated by: Spider Robinson
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Shara Drummond was a gifted dancer and a brilliant choreographer, but she could not pursue her dream of dancing on Earth. So she went to space, creating a new art form in three dimensions. And when the aliens arrived, there was only one way to prove that the human race deserved not just to survive, but to reach the stars. The only hope was Shara, with her stardance.
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Utterly ridiculous
- By Randall on 04-25-09
By: Spider Robinson, and others
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Variable Star
- By: Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson
- Narrated by: Spider Robinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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At his death in 1988, Robert A. Heinlein left a legacy that almost single-handedly defined modern science fiction. But one of Heinlein's masterpieces was never finished. In 1955, he began work on Variable Star, a powerful and passionate tale of two young lovers driven apart by pride, power, and the vastness of interstellar time and space. Now, the Heinlein estate has authorized award-winning author Spider Robinson to expand his outline into a full-length novel. And the result is vintage Heinlein.
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Spider WHO
- By Randall on 04-25-09
By: Robert A. Heinlein, and others
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The Draco Tavern
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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When a tremendous spacecraft takes orbit around Earth's moon and begins sending smaller landers down toward the North Pole, the newly arrived visitors quickly set up a permanent spaceport in Siberia. Their presence attracts many, including Rick Schumann, who establishes a tavern catering to all the various species of visiting aliens, a place he calls the Draco Tavern. From the mind of best-selling author Larry Niven come 27 tales and vignettes from this interstellar gathering place.
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A Great Listen
- By D. Arkless on 04-07-07
By: Larry Niven
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A World Out of Time
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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After more than two hundred years as a corpsicle, Jaybee Corbell awoke in someone else’s body and under threat of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars. But Corbell bided his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core.
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Do you know how people get old?
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-13-12
By: Larry Niven
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Alexander X
- Battle for Forever, Book 1
- By: Edward Savio
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Alexander Grant is a little too good at a few too many things. Two dozen martial arts. Twice that many languages. Chess, the piano, sports, forging excused absences, you name it. He graduated high school top of his class 17 times. Of course, no one knows any of this. Not that he wants to go unnoticed. It’s just safer that way.
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More for Young Readers
- By Kerr on 09-23-19
By: Edward Savio
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The Stainless Steel Rat
- Stainless Steel Rat, Book 1
- By: Harry Harrison
- Narrated by: Phil Gigante
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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DiGriz is caught during one of his crimes and recruited into the Special Corps. Boring, routine desk work during his probationary period results in his discovering that someone is building a battleship, thinly disguised as an industrial vessel. In the peaceful League no one has battleships anymore, so the builder of this one would be unstoppable. DiGriz' hunt for the guilty becomes a personal battle between himself and the beautiful but deadly Angelina, who his planning a coup on one of the feudal worlds.
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A Rat Race Worth Running!!
- By M. Stephenson on 10-28-10
By: Harry Harrison
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More Than Human
- By: Theodore Sturgeon
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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In this genre-bending novel, among the first to have launched sci fi into literature, a group of remarkable social outcasts band together for survival and discover that their combined powers render them superhuman. Together, they may represent the next step in evolution - or the final chapter in the history of the human race. As they struggle to find whether they are meant to help humanity or destroy it, Sturgeon explores questions of power and morality, individuality and belonging.
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Must listen
- By Dion on 01-16-10
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Rip-Off!
- By: John Scalzi, Jack Campbell, Mike Resnick, and others
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton, Scott Brick, Christian Rummel, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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In Rip-Off!, 13 of today’s best and most honored writers of speculative fiction face a challenge even they would be hard-pressed to conceive: Pick your favorite opening line from a classic piece of fiction (or even non-fiction) - then use it as the first sentence of an entirely original short story.
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When is a rip-off not a rip-off?
- By Julie W. Capell on 11-24-13
By: John Scalzi, and others
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Old Man's War
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce—and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding. Earth itself is a backwater.
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Fun and Witty Military Sci-Fi
- By M. Spencer on 10-21-12
By: John Scalzi
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Neuromancer
- By: William Gibson
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer didn't just explode onto the science fiction scene - it permeated into the collective consciousness, culture, science, and technology.Today, there is only one science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing the way into the information age and Internet society.
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Story? Classic. Narrator? Ugh.
- By Sage on 11-11-14
By: William Gibson
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Snow Crash
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
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Neal Stephenson is a blazing new force on the sci-fi scene. With the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, he has "vaulted onto the literary stage." It weaves virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility - in short, it is the gigathriller of the information age.
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A solid sci-fi novel
- By Brent on 02-05-03
By: Neal Stephenson
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Solaris
- The Definitive Edition
- By: Stanislaw Lem, Bill Johnston - translator
- Narrated by: Alessandro Juliani
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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At last, one of the world’s greatest works of science fiction is available - just as author Stanislaw Lem intended it. To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Solaris, Audible, in cooperation with the Lem Estate, has commissioned a brand-new translation - complete for the first time, and the first ever directly from the original Polish to English. Beautifully narrated by Alessandro Juliani ( Battlestar Galactica), Lem’s provocative novel comes alive for a new generation.
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A comment on negative reviews
- By Burns on 09-20-11
By: Stanislaw Lem, and others
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The Windup Girl
- By: Paolo Bacigalupi
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
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Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman.
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Good and also Frustrating
- By txkimmers on 11-16-09
By: Paolo Bacigalupi
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A New Eden: A Sci-Fi Thriller Space Adventure
- The Betaverse, Book 1
- By: Menilik Henry Dyer
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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Earth has fallen under the influence of the Fermion Party, whose members believe humanity’s future lies in the metaverse, a simulated environment to which people can upload their consciousness to become immortal. As a simulant, one cannot get sick, grow old, or die. Human beings have no business risking their lives in the betaverse, where injury and illness can kill them. And those who wish to explore beyond the solar system blaspheme what the Fermions believe is the natural order.
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Understandable comparisons but this surpasses all
- By Samuel Warren on 10-04-23
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The Pursuit of the Pankera
- A Parallel Novel about Parallel Universes
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin, Jennifer Jill Araya, Richard Ferrone, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins
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Robert A. Heinlein wrote The Number of the Beast, which was published in 1980. In the book Zeb, Deety, Hilda, and Jake are ambushed by the alien "Black Hats" and barely escape with their lives on a specially configured vehicle (the Gay Deceiver) which can travel along various planes of existence, allowing them to visit parallel universes. However, unknown to most fans, Heinlein had already written a "parallel" novel about the four characters and parallel universes in 1977.
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Stupid production
- By Arthur W. Smart on 06-21-20
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Reamde
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 38 hrs and 29 mins
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations - whether he’s reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future (Snow Crash), or both (Cryptonomicon).
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Not perfect, but worth a listen.
- By ShySusan on 10-01-11
By: Neal Stephenson
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- Charles
- 02-29-04
Great listen
Having read all of Robinson's Callahan books from this one through Callahan's Key (available here on Audible), it was a pleasure to revisit these stories where the Callahan legend begins. New readers should not beleive Robinson when he says in the Forward (or "Backward" as he calls it) that there will be no more Callahan stories. He went on to write a number of other Callahan books between this one and "Key". They are all just as fun.
My only beef is with the narrator. The book is made up not so much of chapters as with interrelated short stories, yet the narrator makes the transition from the end of one into the beginning of the next without so much as a pause for a breath.
With luck, Robinson and Audible will see fit to add all the intervening books that fall between this one and Callahans Key.
If you are a fan of Science Fiction, Mysteries, puns, riddles, tall tales and just plain good story telling, I highly recommend this book.
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- Marjatta
- 03-20-04
Not what I expected
If you've read these books before jump right in, I'm sure you'll enjoy them. the stories were good, and well written- but had more of a serious moral overtone to them than I expected from the other reviews. I got this book primarily because the reviews gave me the impression it would be a tounge-in-cheek Douglas Adams type farce and in that I was dissapointed. If you're looking for something to cheer you up and make you laugh aloud this doesn't really fit the bill.
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- Dammschippee
- 03-06-04
New regular to Callahan's
I was totally unfamiliar with Spider and Callahan's place. I selected this book based on its rating and its length. One of the BEST decisions I ever made. I can't wait to listen to more of the Callahan saga.
You gotta get this one!!
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- Michael Kaufman
- 03-14-04
A bit too sickly sweet for me
I really enjoyed these books when they first came out, but that was a long time ago. I tried to listen to them now, and I gave up after an hour or two. Everybody loves everybody, and everyone takes care of everyone. The author never lets a real storyline get in the way of the general lovefest. I finally stopped listening, because I was afraid I was going to get diabetes from all of the sugar.
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- Steven Manzari
- 09-07-04
TERRIBLE
Spider Robinson notes in his book that if people remember "shared pain is diminished, shared joy increased" but forget his name he will have been a tremendous success in his life. Let me share my pain with you in the hopes of diminishing it. This was maybe the third or fourth worst book I have ever read. The characters are superficial and cliched at best (this is all the more amazing because as the author says: these are not primarily science fiction stories but rather stories about people). The story lines are often disjointed, the plot devices incredible, and the plots juvenille.
One of my favorite, and most repetitive, features of the stories are about how "SF" readers (the author's term for science fiction) would automatically understand all the unusual time traveling, intergalactic happenings at Callahan's Place while other people might not. Thank goodness for guys like Spider Robinson to make it all ok for us. Another example of the author's deeply evocative narrative is when his main character ("a really empathic guy") uses a personal computer as a metaphor to describe his response to an attractive woman. (AMAZING: an empathic computer) I can't tell you for certain that this might be what your average techie 8th grader taking a computer class thinks is the height of wit but I don't think I'd be far off.
Did it work? No such luck. My pain is just as bad as it was before. Maybe I can just forget Spider Robinson and his book and make him a success after all.
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- Irenehope
- 04-30-06
Bad Surprise
I was looking forward to this audio book, it had such good reviews. Then I started listening, and it was the same story over & over again. Stranger walks into bar, stranger tells story, moment of enlightenment, compassion or bonding, over & over again. And the introduction is also repeated over & over again. Maybe, a few more hours in, something changes, and maybe not.
I no longer care.
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- Mr. Grumpy
- 12-15-07
Boring!
I too was looking forward to this book after all the hype. This is one of the few books that I actually stopped listening to. It's the same story over and over and over... you get the idea. After 2 stories I had enough touchy feely to last for years.
I really wouldn't characterize this as SF. I always get the feeling that Robinson throws in some SF element so he could get the thing published.
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- James
- 07-19-05
hated it.
This is a childish book. THe fact that it's dated is not the problem.
After the first three or four stories I just couldn't take it anymore. They are all sappy crap stories with a different main character surrounded by the same barely deveolped supporting cast. It reads like a hardy boys mystery.
The glowing intro from Ben Bova lead me to believe I was in for a treat. Like I would be in some wonderful literary club where I could say "hey you ever read about Callahans"? and if someone said yeah, I could dish out a few names and "puns" and we could fondly remember how cool it was....
I can tell you that will never happen. If I were ever to meet one of the people who wrote one of those glowing warm fuzzy reviews. I would have to question their IQ and slowly disengage myself from their presence.
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- Rodney Wines
- 04-27-04
Like having a flower stuffed up your nose
I had read several of the Callahan stories in Analog magazine over the years, and generally enjoyed them. However, having the whole collection in one book was too much syrup and sweetness for me. The book was essentially 16 hours of Co-dependents Anonymous with a bit of pop psychology thrown in. There were moments of decent SF, and some fairly good characters, but the effect was, for me at least, buried in the sugar.
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- Nicholas
- 06-20-05
Story, language and narrator is awful
Of all the audio books I have listened to this is by far the worst one that I could image. The foul language was uncalled for and could have been easily left out. The story was so far out that even a real space travler would have laughed. I found it totally ridiculous. What a waste of money.
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