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
Tales From The Spaceport Bar
β Scribed by George H. Scithers and Darryl Schweitzer
- Book ID
- 104524288
- Publisher
- New English Library (NEL)
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 5 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780450489099
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Always there's a bar. Dark and sleazy, hygienic and plastic-bright. An off-world, back-street dive or a picture-windowed stellar transit station. A place for hell-raising, lone drinking, dealing and whispered assignations. But above all, a place for the telling of strange tales. Where sooner or later someone will say, "That reminds me of an odd experience I once had..."
This collection comprises 22 such tales by Isaac Asimov, Larry Niven, Roger Zelazny, Algis Budrys and others.
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