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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[All I can say is, I want to go make a toast at Callahan's Place, and become a regular at this bar where the patrons are lifelong friends and &quot;family&quot; first, rotten punsters second, and drinking buddies last. <br/><br/>This is a collection of short stories about Callahan's Place, a rather odd bar in which patrons come to have a drink, see friends, play games, and--more often than not--spill their guts (no, not literally). This saloon has more than its fair share of alien, non-human, and otherwise weird clientele, which is odd considering it's not in space or in the future or at any point where it should experience such a thing.<br/><br/>This is indisputably science fiction, but if you're not a person who's historically liked science fiction, you'll probably still really enjoy it. (That is, if you can stomach the characters' propensity for puns.)<br/><br/>&quot;Shared pain is lessened, shared joy is increased. Thus we refute entropy.&quot;]]></body>
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