Tales from the Spaceport Bar

Science fiction anthology, published 1987

Tales from the Spaceport Bar

Cover of first edition

Author| edited by George H. Scithers and Darrell Schweitzer
Cover artist| James Warhola
Country| United States
Language| English
Genre| Science fiction
Publisher| Avon Books

Publication date

| 1987
Media type| Print (paperback)
Pages| xv, 235 pp.
ISBN| 0-380-89943-4
Followed by| Another Round at 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.[1]

## Summary[edit]

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

## Contents[edit]

* "Preface" (George H. Scithers and Darrell Schweitzer)
* "The Green Marauder" (Larry Niven)
* "Don't Look Now" (Henry Kuttner)
* "Getting Even" (Isaac Asimov)
* "What Goes Up" (Arthur C. Clarke)
* "Social Lapses" (poem) (Darrell Schweitzer)
* "One for the Road" (Gardner Dozois)
* "Elephas Frumenti" (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
* "Unicorn Variation" (Roger Zelazny)
* "Strategy at the Billiards Club" (Lord Dunsany)
* "Through Time & Space with Ferdinand Feghoot!" (Grendel Briarton)
* "On the Rocks at Slab's" (John Gregory Betancourt)
* "Hands of the Man" (R. A. Lafferty)
* "Endurance Vile" (Steven Barnes)
* "The Centipede's Dilemma" (Spider Robinson)
* "The Causes" (Margaret St. Clair)
* "For a Foggy Night" (Larry Niven)
* "They Loved Me in Utica" (Avram Davidson)
* "A Pestilence of Psychoanalysts" (Janet O. Jeppson)
* "The Regulars" (Robert Silverberg)
* "The Man Who Always Knew" (Algis Budrys)
* "Infinite Resources" (Randall Garrett)
* "What's Wrong with This Picture?" (Barry B. Longyear, John M. Ford and George H. Scithers)

## Reception[edit]

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.[1]

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ a b Tales from the Spaceport Bar title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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Works by Darrell Schweitzer

Novels|

* The Shattered Goddess (1983)
* The White Isle (1989)
* The Mask of the Sorcerer (1995)
* The Dragon House (2018)

Short story collections|

* We Are All Legends (1981)
* Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985)
* Transients (1993)
* Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999)
* Necromancies and Netherworlds (1999)
* Nightscapes (2000)
* The Great World and the Small (2001)
* Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer (2004)
* Living with the Dead (2008)
* Deadly Things (2011)
* Echoes of the Goddess (2013)
* The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013)
* The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013)
* Awaiting Strange Gods (2015)
* The Mysteries of the Faceless King (2020)
* The Last Heretic (2020)
* The Children of Chorazin and Other Strange Denizens (2023)

As editor|

* Tales from the Spaceport Bar (1987)
* Another Round at the Spaceport Bar (1989)
* The Thomas Ligotti Reader (2003)
* The Neil Gaiman Reader (2006)
* The Secret History of Vampires (2007)
* The Robert E. Howard Reader (2010)
* Full Moon City (2010)
* Cthulhu's Reign (2010)
* That is Not Dead (2015)
* Tales from the Miskatonic University Library (2017)
* Mountains of Madness Revealed (2019)
* Shadows Out of Time (2023)

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