Callahan's Place
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| Author | Spider Robinson |
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| Cover artist | Vincent Di Fate |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Ace Books |
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1977 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 170 |
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| Publisher | Ace Books |
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1981 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
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| Publisher | Berkley Books |
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1986 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
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| Publisher | Ace Books |
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1989 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
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| Publisher | Ace Books |
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1992 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
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| Publisher | Ace Books |
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1993 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
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| Publisher | Tor Books |
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1996 |
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| Publisher | Bantam Spectra |
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2000 |
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| Publisher | Tor Books |
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2003 |
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In the fictional universe of Spider Robinson, Callahan's Place is a bar with strongly community-minded and empathic clientele. It appears in the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon stories (compiled in the first novel of the same name) along with its sequels Time Travelers Strictly Cash and Callahan's Secret; most of the beloved barflies appear in the further sequels The Callahan Touch, Callahan's Legacy, Callahan's Key, and Callahan's Con, and the computer game.
The bar is run by Mike Callahan. The regulars are welcoming and willing to listen to any visitor's problems, no matter how strange, but do not snoop if a visitor is unwilling to share. Strange and unusual events and visitors turn up with frequency in the stories. Regulars at Callahan's include a talking dog, several extraterrestrials and time travelers, an ethical vampire, a couple of Irish mythological beings, and an obscenity-spewing parrot. The stories make heavy use of puns. Irish whiskeys are the preferred beverage, with Tullamore Dew and Bushmills mentioned in nearly every collection of shorts or novel that references the saloon. The stories make an obvious homage to Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp's Tales from Gavagan's Bar and Arthur C. Clarke's Tales from the White Hart.
Lady Sally McGee, the madam of a house of excellent repute (and Mike Callahan's wife), stars in Robinson's Callahan's Lady and Lady Slings the Booze. The regulars at Lady Sally's brothel (where the employees are "artists" and the patrons are "clients") insist on the same empathy and humor as those at Callahan's, and they are just as likely to have fantastic backgrounds. Relatedly, nobody in Lady Sally's is forced into anything they are unwilling to do.
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