Mass Market Paperback, 429 pages
English language
Published Feb. 4, 2001 by Baen, Distributed by Simon & Schuster.
From the offbeat but razor-edged imagination of Spider Robinson: stranded time travelers; squabbling cosmic warriors; reincarnated rock stars; blind starship pilots; monsters both human and alien; tomorrows formed by today's trends—this Spider weaves a web of wonder.
Sound profound? Nah. Herein we've got a partially-disembodied Brooklynite looking for his, er, bottom half, a past-tense-ignoring player of a certain New York crap game from 1930 running loose in the present, a compendium of the silliest weapons history never had, and plenty more. The warped and the way-out combine in a book that by any name would be. . . really cool.
Contents: • Melancholy Elephants (1982) • Half an Oaf (1976) • Antinomy (1978) • Satan's Children (1979) • Apogee (1978) • No Renewal (1977) • Tin Ear (1977) • In the Olden Days (1984) • Silly Weapons throughout History (1980) essay • Nobody Likes to Be Lonely (1975) • True …
From the offbeat but razor-edged imagination of Spider Robinson: stranded time travelers; squabbling cosmic warriors; reincarnated rock stars; blind starship pilots; monsters both human and alien; tomorrows formed by today's trends—this Spider weaves a web of wonder.
Sound profound? Nah. Herein we've got a partially-disembodied Brooklynite looking for his, er, bottom half, a past-tense-ignoring player of a certain New York crap game from 1930 running loose in the present, a compendium of the silliest weapons history never had, and plenty more. The warped and the way-out combine in a book that by any name would be. . . really cool.
Contents: • Melancholy Elephants (1982) • Half an Oaf (1976) • Antinomy (1978) • Satan's Children (1979) • Apogee (1978) • No Renewal (1977) • Tin Ear (1977) • In the Olden Days (1984) • Silly Weapons throughout History (1980) essay • Nobody Likes to Be Lonely (1975) • True Minds (1984) • Common Sense (1985) • Chronic Offender (1981) • High Infidelity (1984) • Rubber Soul (1982) • The Crazy Years (1996) essay • By Any Other Name (1976)
Really well executed shorts.
