Tales from the Spaceport Bar


Tales from the Spaceport Bar is an anthology of science fiction club tales edited by George H. Scithers and Darrell Schweitzer. It was first published in paperback by Avon Books in January 1987. The first British edition was issued in paperback by New English Library in 1988.

Summary

The book collects twenty-one short stories and one poem by various science fiction authors, with a preface by the editors.

Contents

  • "Preface"
  • "The Green Marauder"
  • "Don't Look Now"
  • "Getting Even"
  • "What Goes Up"
  • "Social Lapses"
  • "One for the Road"
  • "Elephas Frumenti"
  • "Unicorn Variation"
  • "Strategy at the Billiards Club"
  • "Through Time & Space with Ferdinand Feghoot!"
  • "On the Rocks at Slab's"
  • "Hands of the Man"
  • "Endurance Vile"
  • "The Centipede's Dilemma"
  • "The Causes"
  • "For a Foggy Night"
  • "They Loved Me in Utica"
  • "A Pestilence of Psychoanalysts"
  • "The Regulars"
  • "The Man Who Always Knew"
  • "Infinite Resources"
  • "What's Wrong with This Picture?"

Reception

The anthology was reviewed by Dan Chow in Locus no. 311, December 1986, Andy Sawyer in Paperback Inferno no. 64, 1987, Jerry L. Parsons in Fantasy Review, March 1987, and Tom Easton in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1987.