Lady Slings the Booze - Hardcover

Robinson, Spider

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0441469280 ISBN 13: 9780441469284

Publisher: Ace Hardcover, 1992

Synopsis

Mike Callahan's wife aims to please at her intergalactic house of ill repute that attracts customers from beyond the limits of the universe.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

As the title of the second Lady Sally Callahan novel shows, Robinson ( Callahan's Lady ) has not lost his touch for puns. Unfortunately, he has lost his touch for character, plot and dialogue. This book is hilarious in places, but its disparate parts never merge as a whole. The story is disjointed, and there are long stretches where nothing relevant happens. Private detective Joe Quigley is hired to track down an invisible attacker at Lady Sally's brothel, and ends up saving the world from rabid pacifists who want to nuke it. In between, everyone makes love and makes puns. The characters are collections of eccentricities rather than real people. When they aren't busy punning and wisecracking, they are preaching at Quigley, whose main function is to be amazed at everything he sees. Near the end of the book the tone suddenly turns serious, and the change is jarring. Readers who feel a need to groan at Robinson's puns would be better off rereading his early Callahan collections (e.g., Callahan's Cross-Time Saloon ).
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About this edition

• Publisher: Ace Hardcover
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0441469280
• ISBN 13: 9780441469284
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 257