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Callahan's Key

by Spider Robinson · 2000

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Nobody blends good science with bad puns as brilliantly as Spider Robinson, as his legion of devoted fans will attest. Now he's back with the latest chapter of the Callahan saga — an improbable tale of impending doom, a road trip, space, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.

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The universe is in desperate peril. Due to a cluster of freakish phenomena, the United States' own defense system has become a perfect doomsday machine, threatening the entire universe. And only one man can save everything-as-we-know-it from annihilation.

Unfortunately, he's not available.

So the job falls instead to bar owner Jake Stonebender, his wife, Zoey, and superintelligent toddler, Erin.

Not to mention two dozen busloads of ex-hippies and freaks, Robert Heinlein's wandering cat, a whorehouse parrot, and misunderstood genius-inventor Nikola Tesla, who is in fact alive and well....

Genre
aliens and first contactaliens and first contactMore like thisLess of thisscience fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of thishumorhumorMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of this
Setting
Key WestKey WestMore like thisLess of this
Subject
sciencescienceMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 335 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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