Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
OH, THE WEBS HE WEAVES ...
Spider Robinson has won every major award that the science fiction field has to offer with his Heinlein-influenced, solidly scientific, warmly human stories. User Friendly is a new solid chunk of Spider's universe that is inimitably reader friendly. Welcome to a world where your wife may be inhabited by an alien symbiote; where the fabulously rich hire hitmen to be their own assassins in a bizarre conspiracy; where a brave woman must change the course of Halley's Comet on its next return to save the life of her lover; and where you can't tell the real time travelers from the frauds without a program....
This new volume of pure 24 karat Spider Robinson will be welcomed by his many readers and will win him many new ones.
Table of Contents
No pain, no gain / Elizabeth Moon -- Slue-Foot Sue and the witch in the woods / Laura Frankos -- A young swordswoman's garden primer / Sarah Zettel -- The old fire / Jody Lynn Nye -- Like no business I know / Mark Bourne -- A bone to pick / Marina Frants & Keith R.A. DeCandido -- The attach of the avenging virgins /Elizabeth Ann Scarborough -- Oh, sweet goodnight! /Christina Briley & Walter Vance Awsten -- A bitch in time / Doranna Durgin -- Don't you want to be beautiful? / Laura Anne Gilman -- A night with the girls / Barbara Hambly -- A quiet knight's reading /Steven Piziks -- Armor propre / Jan Stirling & S.M. Stirling -- A big hand for the little lady / Esther M. Friesner -- Blade runner / K.D. Wentworth -- Keeping up appearances / Lawrence Watt-Evans -- La Diffâerence / Harry Turtledove -- Tales from the slushpile /Margaret Ball -- Yes, we did say Chicks! / Adam-Troy Castro.