Time Travellers Strictly Cash by Spider Robinson

Piers Anthony is known as the king of fantasy puns with his Xanth series, but all of his puns are one-shot zingers. It is in this setting where Robinson lets rip with some of the worst puns known to man. His most-beloved series, the Callahan series, is comprised of a whole bunch of mostly unconnected short stories set in a bar called Callahan's. Spider Robinson writes both short stories and novels, but it is in the short stories where he truly shines, and his collection of works shows that. 'Doc' Smith's heir,' among other complimentary phrases. He has also been referred to by critics and other science fiction authors as, 'the next Robert Heinlein,' and, 'E.E. and in some cases, even referenced within his stories directly. The other influences are less evident, but clearly there, and credited in forewords and acknowledgements in several of his books. The Heinlein influence is obvious to anyone who reads any Robinson at all. 'Doc' Smith, but there are undoubtedly many other influences. His writing style is clearly influenced by Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, and E.E. He quickly became well-known in the science fiction community for the short stories he wrote for a science fiction magazine of the time, although his work has been known to cause science fiction purists to turn up their noses, and even (in at least one known case) cancel their subscriptions to Analog, the magazine his stories were first printed in. He got his start writing as a way to pass the time while working a night job, guarding a sewage project in New York (as he puts it, 'guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it.'). He has won nearly all of the coveted science fiction awards over the course of his career at one time or another. While not as prolific as some of the other authors in the field, he achieves a level of quality above and beyond the norm. Spider Robinson is one of the most-beloved contemporary science fiction authors of our generation.

Time Travellers Strictly Cash by Spider Robinson