All posts tagged Spider Robinson

The Hester Prynn Purity Test

Thus, is reported a recent conversation on alt.callahans between John Barnstead and Sailor Jim Johnston, a pair whose punning talents makes me jealous. If you are unfamiliar with the Callahan ficton by Spider Robinson, Fast Eddie is the piano man who administers peace and quiet to those who overly express uninvited curiosity. Such quiet is frequently administered with a frown or a blackjack.

Pernicious the Musquodoboit Harbour Farm Cat rises from his customary Place of Repose. “If you posed right … Read the rest...

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by on May 7, 2002  •  Permalink
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Posted by Alan B. Combs on May 7, 2002

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A New Set of Weals (Long and Shaggy)

This is from John Barnstead, raconteur extraordinary. The word and letter games within the tale are no accident, believe me.

[NOTE: this piece is around 225 lines long, and contains references to OUR PATRON(Spider Robinson)’s story “Melancholy Elephants” and a quote from “Time Pressure” — Caveat Lector!]

It was a dark and stormy night at Callahan’s, but it is over now.

Mike Callahan finishes wiping the last few glasses and replacing them in their cabinets as just a hint of … Read the rest...

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by on August 20, 2001  •  Permalink
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Posted by Alan B. Combs on August 20, 2001

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The Foot Long Nose

This tale is by Spider Robinson. The setting is Callahan’s bar. It appeared in Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon (1976 Ace paperback, now in 2000 Tor paperback), and it is reprinted in the omnibus The Callahan Chronicals (1999 Tor trade paperback).

“I was just thinking of my Cousin Hobart, the celebrated Man With The Foot-Long Nose,” drawled the Doc.

Hobart’s mother died in childbirth, naturally, and his father succumbed to acute embarrassment shortly thereafter.

As a child Hobart was a born … Read the rest...

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by on February 18, 2001  •  Permalink
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Posted by Alan B. Combs on February 18, 2001

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Lord Shardik

This tale is by Spider Robinson. It appeared in Callahan’s Crosstime Salon (1976 Ace paperback, now in 2000 Tor paperback), and it is reprinted in the omnibus The Callahan Chronicals (1999 Tor trade paperback).

There were a few nods.

The Doc smiled and sipped scotch. “For those of you who missed it,” he went on, “it’s about a primitive empire that forms around an enormous, semi-mythical bear. Well, it, happens I know something about that empire that Adams forgot … Read the rest...

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by on October 25, 2000  •  Permalink
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Posted by Alan B. Combs on October 25, 2000

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Feghoot a la Robinson

This Feghoot (based on a character by Reginald Bretner) was created by Spider Robinson, one of SF’s great punsters. It is from his ANTINOMY collection (1980 Dell paperback, now permanently out of print). It may be the only triple Feghoot ever written.

Even Ferdinand Feghoot could be outpunned on occasion – but he always rose to the challenge. There was, for instance, the time he conducted a crew of new S.A.R.H. (Society for the Aesthetic Rearrangement of History -BJ) … Read the rest...

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by on June 22, 1996  •  Permalink
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Posted by Alan B. Combs on June 22, 1996

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Mars Colonization

This tale is by Spider Robinson. It was originally published in Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon (1976 Ace paperback, now in 2000 Tor paperback), and was reprinted in The Callahan Chronicals (1999 Tor trade paperback).

In the year 2744 a human survey team discovered a planet whose sole inhabitant was an enormous humanoid, three miles high and made of something very like granite. At first it was mistaken for an immense statue left by some vanished race of giants, for it … Read the rest...

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by on January 15, 1996  •  Permalink
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Posted by Alan B. Combs on January 15, 1996

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