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From: jsc@sun.uucp (James Carrington)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Tall Tales in a Bar
Message-ID: <2514@sun.uucp>
Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 13:21:15 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 13:21:15 1985
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Reply-To: jsc@sun.UUCP (James Carrington)
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Summary: Spider Robinson

In article <427@spar.UUCP> freeman@max.UUCP (Jay Freeman) writes:
>In article <2190@sdcrdcf.UUCP> barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) writes:
>>No, James Branch Cabell didn't write a series of tales set in a bar.
>>You're probably thinking of Arthur C. Clarke.
>Nope, I am well aware of the _White_Hart_ and am sure there was a precursor
>in a SFnal or fantasy vein.  If not Cabell, then someone else.  But who??

Spider Robinson has written several short stories set in "Callahan's
Crosstime Saloon" (the title of one of the anthologys). They are not 
precursors to Clarke, however -- they're pretty recent.
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