Callahan's Key

Overview:

• Title: Callahan's Key
• Author: Spider Robinson
• Year: 2000
• Type: Novel
• Series: Callahan
• Number in series: 9

Synopsis:

Publisher's description: "The universe in is desperate peril. Due to a cluster of freakish phenomena, the United States' own defense system has become a doomsday machine, threatening the entire universe. Only one man can save everything-as-we-know-it from annihilation. Unfortunately, he's not available. So the job falls instead to bar owner Jake Stonebender, his wife Zoey, and their superintelligent toddler, Erin, not to mention two dozen busloads of ex-hippies and freaks, Robert Heinlein's wandering cat, a whorehouse parrot, and misunderstood genius-inventor, Nikola Tesla, who is in fact alive and well."

Awards:

• 2001. Callahan's Key Endeavour, Distinguished Novel or Collection (Nomination below cutoff)

Editions/Publications:

• 2000. Callahan's Key (July 2000, Spider Robinson Bantam Spectra, ISBN-10: 0553111639, $23.95, ix+335 pages, Hardcover, Novel)
• 2001. Callahan's Key (May 2001, Spider Robinson Bantam Books, ISBN-10: 0553580604, $6.50, 335 pages, Paperback, Novel)

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