Another Round at the Spaceport Bar

Another Round at the Spaceport Bar is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy club tales edited by George H. Scithers and Darrell Schweitzer.

[1] The book collects eighteen novelettes and short stories by various science fiction and fantasy authors (including the editors themselves), with an introduction by W. T. Quick.

"[2] In contrast, Jon Wallace, also in Paperback Inferno, calls the Heinlein piece "wonderful," as well as praising the story by Leiber.

He also comments without assessment on one of the pieces by Asimov and the contributions from Quick, Llywelyn, Betancourt, Mylos, and Swanwick.

"[3] Keith Freeman, in Vector, delivers judicious capsule summaries of all the tales, highlighting the Wilson for "[h]umour with a serious point," the Kornbluth for the "punch in the tail-almost a prerequisite for the 'ideal' bar story," the Llywelyn as "[o]verlong ... again relying heavily on the sting," the Niven for "a paradox to solve, or think about, in an entertaining way," the Haldeman as "lovely" and "comically told," the first Asimov as "[f]air, but not, to my mind, a proper bar tale," the Betancourt as "pure fun fantasy with logic shining through the magic," and the Dunsany as "a little dated and ... a little thin but ... still worth reading.