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Callahan's Con

ISBN 0-765-30270-5
A Review by RobMagus


Callahan's Con is -wonderful-.

If you're used to the short story collections, then it's a neat new way of looking at the characters many years since; if you've read everything up til now, than a few memorable characters return.

For both, a -whole- lot of cool stuff is in this story.

Without giving away plot points, there are characters connected to other characters from past Callahan's stories who play largish roles in the shifting storylines in Con. Also, and this is implied on the dust cover so I'm not giving anything away, a major character does not live through the proceedings.

This is handled beautifully, and I confess that I got a bit bleary-eyed.

There are enough puns to make you cringe for a long time, and the pun at the end of chapter two was SO incredibly awful I swear to God I threw the book against the wall.

Then there's another amazing mind-meld sequence, of which Spider's writing always makes me feel as if I am indeed within several minds at once.

Long story short, GO GET CALLAHAN'S CON!


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