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The Lifehouse Trilogy [Hardcover]

Spider Robinson (Author)
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Lifehouse December 4, 2007
Three novels complete in one volume:

Mindkiller: Wireheads, addicted to an electric current fed into the pleasure centers of the brain, are the new junkies. Karen, a former wirehead who barely escaped death by pleasure, is determined to bring down those who sell the wireheading equipment, but she and her lover Joe instead turn up evidence of a shadowy global conspiracy—not to control the world, but to keep anyone from realizing that the masters of mind control have been controlling us all for some time now . . . .

Time Pressure: When a beautiful girl appeared in a globe of blue light in a snowbound forest and said she had come back in time, Sam thought it was the most wonderful thing that could possibly happen. But then he began to notice sinister things about her, and thought he would have to kill her to save the present. Except that there was a third possibility, and that really was the most wonderful thing that could possibly happen . . .

Lifehouse: June Bellamy had gone for a walk in a park—and came back with memories missing. She didn’t know that, but her partner could tell because she’d told her answering machine about strange people in the park. Now June and Paul are on the run from insidious superhumans who can edit their memories and track them down no matter where or how well they hide. They are desperate—but not nearly as desperate as their pursuers . . .

Three suspenseful stories of people in incredible and desperate situations, all of them unknowingly involved in a secret that could mean the salvation of all humans who were alive, who would ever live, or who ever had lived . . .


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About the Author

Award-winning author Spider Robinson is renowned for his “Callahan’s Place” series of bestselling novels, the latest being Callahan’s Con (Tor). With his wife, Jeanne, he has written the Hugo- and Nebula-winning “Stardance” series, which Baen recently published complete in one volume for the first time. He has been a favorite with readers from his earliest stories, which won him the John Campbell Award for best new writer. Since then he has garnered many other awards for his amusing, Heinlein-inspired SF, with the current total at three Hugos and a Nebula Award. He is frequently a guest at SF conventions across the US and Canada. His last book for Baen was the novel Very Bad Deaths, an offshoot of the Callahan series.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 640 pages
  • Publisher: Baen (December 4, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1416555110
  • ISBN-13: 978-1416555117
  • Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #683,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Spider finally manages not-so-short stories, January 30, 2010
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Spider Robinson has made his mark in writing short stories, especially the Callahan series. So far I had been unconvinced by his attempts at longer stuff, though the 'Lady Mary' novels are also witty, impertinent and loaded with abominable puns ('Lady Slings the Booze'...). What is usually lacking in his long novels is pace: true son of the sixties that he is, Spider takes his time and meanders leisurily through his story. It is pleasurable, full of invention, cozy aso, but... yawns do happen in the reading.
The Lifehouse Trilogy is even more ambitious a project in length, since the threee novels in it actually share their main characters (if you can still call'em characters... but no spoiler!) and story thread, at different places in time. It partakes of Robinson's usual qualities, and for a change it gets much more catching than his other novels (I include Very Bad Deaths in the paceless kind). The second one relapses a bit in that respect, being basically an egotistical journal of a hippie in the North, but actually this is in accordance with the psyche of the narrator at this point in time, so when all is said and done it is pardonable, situated between the action-packed first and third novels. The initial idea of the last novel is so original, so incredibly delicious that I envy the reader who will discover it.
The overall plot is extremely original, with a (last?) trend of the hippy optimism and a vision of mankind eventually coming of age. (sigh) not likely, but maybe this is not fiction? Keep your fingers crossed.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars All are gripping, involving stories not to be missed., April 4, 2008
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Three interrelated stories of individuals caught up in very different worlds will provide readers with suspense and intrigue alike, creating moving and vivid stories hard to put down. MINDKILLER presents a future where 'wireheads' addicted to electric brain currents are the new junkies, with one Karen determined to bring down those who sell wireheading equipment; TIME PRESSURE tells of a lovely time traveler who presents Sam with a dilemma and possible romance, and LIFEHOUSE tells of a woman who has lost key memories of possible aliens or superhumans. All are gripping, involving stories not to be missed.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Counterpoint to "Callahan's", December 16, 2008
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I'm really glad that I found this omnibus version as I had read `Mindkiller' previously and was glad to find two sequels to go with it. It gives `deja-vu' a whole new meaning!

The first book (Mindkiller) jumps forwards and backwards chronologically, but stick with it - the payoff (reveal?) is worth it in the end!

The second book (Time Pressure) makes me wonder - did I really forget where I put my car keys, or did I have some help? Hmmmmm....

The third book (Lifehouse) makes me wonder about the ends justifying the means, or is it the means justifying the ends? And which came first, the chickens or the eggs?

I hope Spider finds time to re-visit this storyline as I would like to know more about some of the characters both before and after the action in these stories.

Note to parents - there is a good bit of adult / sexual themes in this.
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