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Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Callahan's, #1)

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Oct 24, 2017 Denise rated it liked it

Written in 1999 it says here-but these are short stories for a magazine so probably written over a number of years. Some are a bit dated and many have a mix of feminism and progressive views, other with a few homophobic or misogynist comments. Overall a theme if sharing difficult feelings and situations in a (mostly) judgement free bar. With aliens and time travels.

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Oct 10, 2012 Daniel Roy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: sf, collection

Try as I might, I couldn't help but groan at some of the corniness of the stories in Callahan's Crosstime Saloon. There's just something very nerdy about the whole thing. For one thing, the book is filled to the brim with groan-worthy puns. You know, the kind that make geeks chuckle with pride. The SF is clunky, and a lot of the emotional content consists of men narrating their own pain while downing copious amounts of whiskey.

But... Well, there's just something so damn likeable about Callahan's ...more

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