User Friendly

by Spider Robinson

Paperback, 1998

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Collection

Publication

Baen Books (1998), Mass Market Paperback

Description

OH, THE WEBS HE WEAVES ...Spider Robinson has won every major award that the science fiction field has to offer with his Heinlein-influenced, solidly scientific, warmly human stories. User Friendly is a new solid chunk of Spider's universe that is inimitably reader friendly. Welcome to a world where your wife may be inhabited by an alien symbiote; where the fabulously rich hire hitmen to be their own assassins in a bizarre conspiracy; where a brave woman must change the course of Halley's Comet on its next return to save the life of her lover; and where you can't tell the real time travelers from the frauds without a program....This new volume of pure 24 karat Spider Robinson will be welcomed by his many readers and will win him many new ones.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member scottcholstad
User Friendly is funny ... to the point of being just plain stupid. Stupid jokes. Stupid puns. Stupid. And the science fiction is virtually non-existent. I could barely detect any. It's a book of short stories, essays, speeches, and rap. Yes, rap. That's stupid, in and of itself. The essays were
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the best, I guess. User Friendly is reader friendly, but that's about it. Lightweight BS. Not worth the $2.95 I paid for it, used. I feel ripped off. Not recommended.
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Original publication date

1998-02 (Collection)

ISBN

0671996061 / 9780671996062
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