A one-of-a-kind bar with a colorful batch of regulars who tell stories, exchange terrible puns, and meet strangers\u2014human and alien alike\u2014who are drawn to this ‘saloon’ where “shared pain is lessened, shared joy is increased.”<\/p>\n
“If one were given the task of creating Spider Robinson from scratch, the best way to do it would be to snatch James Joyce from history, force-feed him Marx Brothers films and good jazz for the better part of a decade, then turn him loose on a world badly in need of a look at itself.”
\n– The Vancouver Sun<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody\u2019s perfect. But Spider comes pretty damned close.\u201d-Ben Bova<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This book is the introduction to Callahan’s, a place like no other. Sure, there are time travelers and aliens, and the laws of physics and probability are sometimes violated and there are bad puns (is there a good pun?) and the stories are very entertaining. But, the important thing is the community. Listening, understanding, empathizing and holding fast to their humanity against all odds.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[35,42],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-364","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books","7":"product_cat-out-of-print-books","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"taxable","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n