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By Any Other Name (Mass Market Paperback)

by S. Robinson (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Baen Books (1 Jan 1986)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0671319744
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671319748
  • Product Dimensions: 17.1 x 10.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,795,257 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Sheer good storytelling ... from opening tragedy to concluding triumph . . . an imaginative and captivating story". -- Publishers Weekly

Synopsis
Stranded time travlers--including a partially disembodied Brooklynite searching for the rest of himself and a craps player from 1930 New York--collide headlong with cosmic warriors, hallucination-eating monsters, blind starship pilots, and other zany characters. Original.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Short Story: Spider's Calling, 11 April 2001
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This book is a collection of Short Stories written by Spider over the past 3 decades or so. A few of them you may have read if you read his book Antinomy - but several of them are quite new. Some are VERY short.. but complete - lots of variety and suprises.

This was a thouroughly (sp?) enjoyable read and was sufficient to take my mind off of 2 weeks worth of commuting to and from work in London. Spider excells at the suprise ending in his short stories - these suprises are sometimes SO Suprising that you get the distinct impression that you, as a reader, are being asked for too much in terms of believing them.

One of the best short stories I have read in a long time is "By Any Other Name" (I think that was the name of it), the last story in this compilation where Spider's ability to reconstruct a future history in true Heinlein style is particularly good

I maintain that I would like to buy the author and his wife a beer sometime

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