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Mike Callahan is the bartender-owner of Callahan's Place, and he is an important character in the series, but the story really revolves around Jake Stonebender, a thinly-disguised version of author Spider Robinson. (Jake's last name is clearly a hat-tip to Robinson's late friend, Robert A. Heinlein.) The rest of the bar's regulars are a very improbable collection of people, united by a love of drink (but almost never drunkenness), atrociously amusing puns, acceptance of other somewhat unusual people and events ... and saving the world. The actual science fiction aspects are there, but just enough to help the story along; and with the Callahan's Place series, that's the way it ought to be.

Don't read this while consuming a beverage of any sort, because the humor hits frequently, sometimes unexpectedly, and from all sides; you'll waste a beverage, soak your surroundings, and possibly be forced to stop by fights of choking laughter.

Special note to followers of the Callahan's Place series: this is NOT the end of the series. Mike, Jake, Fast Eddie, Doc and the rest were just too much fun for Robinson to retire. The fun and world-saving continue; and be sure not to miss the related Lady Sally's House books.


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I have the entire Callahan series of books. Great price on a very good read. Spider Robinson obviously has fun with the characters in this series.
Enjoy this neat work by Robinson. The saloon gets revamped the hard way.
All the strengths and weaknesses of another Callahan's.
anything spider writes is a treat to read
Spider Robinson always comes thru.
Admittedly, that's praising with faint damns, and for that reason, I still rate it at five stars; it is still delightful, but I was ever so slightly disappointed by it based on what I'd come to expect from "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon" and "Time Travelers Strictly Cash". Granted, the first two stories were as good as any in the previous books, and the third was, in some ways, even better. But the last one, in addition to being a downer that I just don't expect when reading "Callahan's" stories, was just flat-out implausible. I mean, I can accept the incredibly powerful alien out to destroy the earth. I can accept the fact that he looks like a slightly oversized cockroach. I can accept the fact that he is defeated and destroyed by a bunch of wisecracking, punning barflies, two of whom happen to be telepathic and three or four of whom happen to be time travelers.

But the idea that Finn would have failed to protect Jake's guitar in the same way that he protected his clothes? Preposterous. Given that in a previous story, we'd seen how important "Lady MacBeth" was to Jake, and how traumatized he was by her apparent demise, it cannot be suggested that it never occurred to Finn to protect her. Just ridiculous. Nor is it possible that he DID protect her, that she is lying out somewhere in the woods, and neither Finn nor Mary thought to mention that little detail to Jake.

Come on, now, Spider, I challenge you to fix this oversight somehow in a future story.
Mike Callahan is the bartender-owner of Callahan's Place, and he is an important character in the series, but the story really revolves around Jake Stonebender, a thinly-disguised version of author Spider Robinson. (Jake's last name is clearly a hat-tip to Robinson's late friend, Robert A. Heinlein.) The rest of the bar's regulars are a very improbable collection of people, united by a love of drink (but almost never drunkenness), atrociously amusing puns, acceptance of other somewhat unusual people and events ... and saving the world. The actual science fiction aspects are there, but just enough to help the story along; and with the Callahan's Place series, that's the way it ought to be.

Don't read this while consuming a beverage of any sort, because the humor hits frequently, sometimes unexpectedly, and from all sides; you'll waste a beverage, soak your surroundings, and possibly be forced to stop by fights of choking laughter.

Special note to followers of the Callahan's Place series this is NOT the end of the series. Mike, Jake, Fast Eddie, Doc and the rest were just too much fun for Robinson to retire. The fun and world-saving continue; and be sure not to miss the related Lady Sally's House books.