When I was much younger, I was a big fan of Spider Robinson’s Callahan’s Saloon stories. I also liked some of his other works, but I never really got into them the way I did with the earlier Callahan stories. Telempath is one of the novels I am particularly ambivalent about because I am not sure about the way Robinson handles race in this book. (In other words, there is something bugging me about the way he writes the black protagonist of the story. There is also something bugging me about the set up for the apocalypse that I can’t quite put into words.)