Spider Robinson, Author . Tor $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-86524-5
This smoothly written, well-paced romp from Canadian author Robinson (Telempath) takes places in 2023 at Dreamworld, a Disneyland-style park, whose themes draw from SF, fantasy and 1960s popular culture. Twelve-year-old Mike tries to hide himself in
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Spider Robinson, Author . Tor $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0270-0
Blend a madcap plot involving the legendary Fountain of Youth with a zany cast of barflies, garnish with a thin SF twist, and you've got the ingredients for the latest frothy concoction in Hugo-winner Robinson's (Callahan's Key)...
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Spider Robinson, Author Ace Books $18.95 (257p) ISBN 978-0-441-46928-4
As the title of the second Lady Sally Callahan novel shows, Robinson ( Callahan's Lady ) has not lost his touch for puns. Unfortunately, he has lost his touch for character, plot and dialogue. This book is hilarious in places, but its disparate...
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Spider Robinson, Author Tor Books $9.95 (158p) ISBN 978-0-312-85661-8
The merciful thing about this book is that no one makes it a secret that it's being done for the money. And that's where the pity ends, as Spider Robinson (yes, he legally changed his name to Spider) takes epigrams and aphorisms rent from their...
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Spider Robinson, Author Tor Books $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85776-9
Puns, palindromes and assorted witticisms abound in this latest addition to science fiction's longest running in-joke, first presented in book form in Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (1977), most recently in The Callahan Touch (1993). Robinson, who has...
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Spider Robinson, Author Spectra Books $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-11163-7
The universe is again threatened with destruction, but fans of Jake Stonebender and his team will fear not, for they know that these heroes will not only save the day but will make it safely to happy hour. At the outset of the latest book in Nebula-w
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Spider Robinson, Author Five Star (ME) $24.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-7862-4162-0
SF veteran Spider Robinson (The Callahan Chronicals) gathers 10 tales, most from the 1970s and '80s, into a collection that seems to owe more to the past (i.e., Robinson's 1960s sensibilities) than it does to the future. God Is an Iron and Other
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Spider Robinson, Author, Jeanne Robinson, Author Ace Books $17.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-441-78357-1
The Robinsons return to the setting of their previous collaboration ( Stardance ) to further explore a universe in which humans are given the opportunity to live rarefied lives on the transplanted asteroid Top Step. The Starseed Foundation offers to
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Spider Robinson, Author, James Warhola, Illustrator Ace Books $16.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-441-80932-5
Life in Nova Scotia in the early '70s had just about everything your average hippie could hope for: beautiful scenery, tolerant locals, lots of other hippies and lots of drugs. So thinks Sam Meade, a guitar-playing American refugee from the Vietnam...
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Spider Robinson, Author, Lawrence Block, Foreword by Benbella Books $14.95 (294p) ISBN 978-1-932100-35-8
Originally published in Toronto's Globe and Mail, the short essays in Hugo-winner Spider Robinson's The Crazy Years offer provocative comment on a wide range of subjects, including the U.S. space program, smoking, the environment, intellectual...
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Spider Robinson, Author, Jeanne Robinson, With Ace Books $21.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-441-00209-2
This concluding novel in the Stardance trilogy, after Stardance (1977) and Starseed (1992), suffers from a problem common to later volumes in multibook sagas: competing demands between the plot and the series' backstory. The Starmind, a universal...
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Robert A. Heinlein, Author, Spider Robinson, Author . Tor $24.95 (318p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1312-6
Like a good Ganymedean farmer in the sky, Robinson (Callahan's Key
) plants both feet firmly in Heinlein territory with this mostly credible pastiche of a Heinlein young adult novel circa 1955. Working from an unfinished outline and notes,...
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