By Any Other Name
 FROM
THE CRIME TO THE RIDICULOUS
From
the offbeat but razor-edged imagination of Spider Robinson: Stranded
time travelers; squabbling cosmic warriors; reincarnated rockstars;
blind starship pilots; monsters both human and alien; a tomorrow formed
by today's trends—this
Spider weaves a web of wonder.
Sound
profound? Nah! Herein we've got a partially-disembodied Brooklynite
looking for his, er, bottom half, a past-tense-ignoring player of a
certain New York crap game from 1930 running loose in the present, a
compendium of the silliest weapons history never had, and plenty more.
The warped and the way-out combine in a book that by any name would be . . . really
cool!
Praise for Spider Robinson:
". . .
I'd nominate Spider Robinson as the new Robert Heinlein. Like Mr.
Heinlein in his prime, Mr. Robinson writes in a crisp, tightly
controlled prose about a future that is recognizably descended from today's
world, yet provocatively altered."
—The
New York Times
"Robinson
is the hottest writer to hit science fiction since [Harlan] Ellison . .
. He can match the master's frenetic
energy and emotional intensity, arm-break for gut-wrench."
—Los
Angeles Times
"Sheer
good storytelling . . . from opening tragedy to concluding triumph . . .
an imaginative and captivating story."
—Publishers
Weekly
Cover art by Richard Martin
Interior art by Rocky Coffin
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and
events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real
people or incidents is purely coincidental.
First printing, February 2001
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
Printed in the United States of America
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ISBN: 0-671-31974-4
Copyright (c) 2001 by Spider Robinson
All stories copyright by Spider Robinson: Melancholy Elephants (c) 1984, Half An Oaf (c) 1976, Antinomy (c) 1980, Satan's Children (c) 1979, Apogee (c) 1980, No Renewal (c) 1980, Tin Ear (c), 1980, In the Olden Days (c) 1984, Silly Weapons (c) 1980, Nobody Likes to Be Lonely (c) 1980, "If This Goes On—" (c) 1991, True Minds (c) 1984, Common Sense (c) 1985, Chronic Offender (c) 1984, High Infidelity (c) 1984, Rubber Soul (c) 1984, The Crazy Years was originally published in parts in the Toronto Globe and Mail (c) 1996-2000, By Any Other Name (c) 1976.
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reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
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