The Red Tape War

by Jack L. Chalker and George Alec Effinger

Book Overview

A remarkable collaborative novel wherein each author writes a chapter and tries to stick the next guy in line with a near-insoluable problem. An interplanetary arbitrator for the Spiral Federation,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312851510
• ISBN13: 9780312851514
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A writing duel

Three science fiction masters each take turns trying to write the other two into a hole. An epic space opera revolving around a bewildered human, several various and assorted aliens, and a buxom space cowgirl named Marshmallow are pawns, riding the edge of one cliffhanger after another as Chalker, Resnick and Effinger move them about an absurd verbal chessboard.A truly unique concept in novelization, and completely unconcerned with conventional storytelling, this is one of the funniest (and strangest) books to be written by an American in recent memory.

Terrific Light-hearted SF

This book is a terrific collaborative work. Effinger, Chalker, Resnick take turns writing chapters, each more imaginatively absurd than the last. Hilarious!