Series
Callahan
Spider Robinson · 6 novels · 4 novellas · 5 novelettes · 13 short stories · 5 collections · 1973–2006
Spider Robinson's Callahan series centers on Callahan's Place, a bar run by Mike Callahan where the regulars - among them a talking dog, stranded aliens, time travelers, an ethical vampire, and Irish mythological beings - trade shaggy-dog puns and help each other through crises both cosmic and personal. Narrated largely by patron Jake Stonebender, the series runs from the original 1977 story collection through further novels and a later spinoff strand centered on Lady Sally McGee's establishment, continuing into the 2000s. It reads as a loosely connected sequence of tall tales more than a single continuous plot.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Callahan at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s13
- 1980s10
- 1990s7
- 2000s3
Shape
6 novels · 4 novellas · 5 novelettes · 13 short stories · 5 collections
1 author
reads like:science fictionfound familyour worldcontemporaryfunnyadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 80% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book30 of 33 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Fivesightdarkest · calmest
- Callahan's Legacybrightest · most intense