Science fiction and fantasy readers have long shown an affinity for a good "bar story". Now some of today's most inventive scriveners have decided to tell their own tall tales-from an alewife's attempt to transfer the gods' curse to Gilgamesh, to Odin's decision to introduce Vikings to the Ur-Bar, f
Tales From the Spaceport Bar
β Scribed by George H. Scithers (ed.); Darrel Schweitzer (ed.)
- Publisher
- New English Library
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 137 KB
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780450489099
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Table of Contents
THE GREEN MARAUDER by Larry Niven
DONβT LOOK NOW by Henry Kuttner
GETTING EVEN by Isaac Asimov
WHAT GOES UP by Arthur C. Clarke
SOCIAL LAPSES by Darrell Schweitzer
ONE FOR THE ROAD by Gardner Dozois
ELEPHAS FRUMENTI by L Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
UNICORN VARIATION by Roger Zelazny
STRATEGY AT THE BILLIARDS CLUB by Lord Dunsany
THROUGH TIME & SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT! by Grendel Briarton
ON THE ROCKS AT SLABβS by John Gregory Betancourt
HANDS OF THE MAN by R.A. Lafferty
ENDURANCE VILE by Steven Barnes
THE CENTIPEDEβS DILEMMA by Spider Robinson
THE CAUSES by Margaret St Clair
FOR A FOGGY NIGHT by Larry Niven
THEY LOVED ME IN UTICA by Avram Davidson
A PESTILENCE OF PSYCHOANALYSTS by Janet O. Jeppson
THE REGULARS by Robert Silverberg
THE MAN WHO ALWAYS KNEW by Algis Budrys
INFINITE RESOURCES by Randall Garrett
WHATβS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? by Barry B. Longyear, John M. Ford, and George H. Scithers
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