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Book Review of By Any Other Name

By Any Other Name
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From the Crim to the ridiculous---a thoroughly punny book.
From the offbeat but razor-edged imagination of Spider Robinson: stranded time travelers, squabbling cosmic warriors, reincarnated rock stars, blind starship pilots, monsters both human and alien, tomorrows formed by today's trends.
Sound profound? Nah! Her we've got a partially-disembodied Brooklynite looking for his, er, bottom half, a past-tense-ignoring player of a certain New Your crap game from 1930 running loose in the present, a compendium of the silliest weapons history never had, and plenty more. The warped and the way-out combine in a book that by any name would be REALLY COOL!
Sheer good story telling . . .