Callahan's Legacy

by Spider Robinson

Book Overview

After the original Callahan's is destroyed, Jake Stonebender and his wife open a new establishment called Mary's Place, where all the regulars including Doc Webster, Fast Eddie, aliens, and many other... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812550358
• ISBN13: 9780812550351
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 113 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.1" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Fun at Mary's Place.

Of course, "Mary's Place" is really just a euphemism for "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon", even if the proprietor IS Jake Stonebender instead of the great one. But if Doc Webster, Eddie Costigan, Mickey Finn and company hang out there, it's really Callahan's, and as such, fans of the "Callahan's" series will not want to miss this one.This is particularly true because in this book, we finally get the "origin stories" for Long Drink McGonnigle, Doc Webster, and Fast Eddie, and they are superb, some of the most powerful writing that Robinson has ever done, which is why I rate this book five stars IN SPITE of the fact that the main plot is kind of weak (Alien cyborg coming to destroy the earth? Gotta defeat it with one hand tied behind our collective, poor weak human backs? Been there. Done that) AND in spite of the fact that the beginning and ending subplot strikes me as involving rather more mockery of individuals based on physical appearance and speaking an unfamiliar language that "sounds funny" than I'd expect from Robinson and the Callahan's folks. The flashback origin stories are just THAT GOOD. You do NOT want to miss them.

Warm, moving, laugh-out-loud funny, and a joy to read.

Spider Robinson's Callahan's regulars once again save the world from certain destruction. No other author combines puns, palindromes, poetry and prose like Robinson. This book has it all -- sex, music, philosophy, outrageous humor, wonderful characters, and a message. Impossible to read it without having fun -- if you like words, you'll love this book.

A rare and beautiful thing

Only a Callahans book could manage to be tremendously funny,painfuly sad, and look wisely at the state of humanity today, all in a style that you can read in something like two hours(if you're fool enough to rush)....

I loved it!

This was the second Robinson I read, and the other one wasn't even Callahan-related. I read one review on another book that "I would nominate him as the new Robert Heinlein if I didn't think it underestimated his ability." I completely agree with this.

He's done it again

Spider Robinson has done it once again. The combination of puns, Tesla, beer and computers is wonderful!