I had pretty good fun with this one. It's a big story, all over the place. I really enjoyed the bits with Tony Donuts. I wasn't completely impressed with the interactions with Erin when she was two years old, because that leads to temporal gaps that can't easily be explained. For instance, if she...
A lot of fun. This was about Lady Sally's Brothel, which sounds like a place all of us would love to visit, if not work. It's like a high-class whorehouse with plenty of style and plenty of cool people. So obviously, we go hang out at Lady Sally's to get our primal leanings in order, then we mose...
I first read one of Spider's short short stories in either an Analog or a Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine (my dad's hand-me-downs). I do remember it being a Callahan's Crosstime Saloon short, and I was instantly hooked. I couldn't get enough of his stories. Then, in 1986 I read Night Of Power...
I am conflicted about this one. I just read it again - in whole, so It is good enough, surely? Niven writes well, no question. I am a fan of his writing, and have read many of his books. However this one, at the end of the day, annoys me. Unfortunately, to explain why, I must refer toi specific p...
I re-read this book a lot. This and most of the rest in this series, of which this particular book is the 4th. I think.If I ever were to meet Spider Robinson in person, I would kiss him full on the lips and probably weep. While the series ran out of steam after awhile (see the less-than deligh...
Very interesting book, I have to admit. With the focus on the main male lead, this actually could've been a sci-fi, YA book, but has several scenes which clearly make it oriented more toward adults. Spider Robinson creates a fantastical world of escapism in "Dreamworld" - a place where people go...
Spider Robinson is weird.The plot is thus: a giant evil alien lizard (with 3 breasts) is on its way to destroy the earth. So the main characters decide to share how they all first came to be a barfly at Mike Callahan's tavern. In short.I can't help but feel by this stage Robinson was getting a te...
4.0 stars. I think the above describes the essence of the book much better than I can, but I will go ahead and ramble for a few paragraphs anyway. However, before I begin PLEASE BE AWARE that this review contains some overt sentimentality and just plain sappiness. If it gets to be too much, you m...
Man, this is uneven. The foreword explains why - it's basically half of the original collection, plus a bunch of stuff stuck in there to make up space. And it shows. It's not that there's zero value in a review column from 1975, or a transcript of a speech about fandom, but they really don't fit ...