The best Cabal short yet. An insight into Cabal's character and a wonderful bit of metaphysics. ( )

Johannes Cabal finds a way to learn the future, and that way is by drinking with his future selve(s). Typical Johannes, he can't even be nice to himself. ( )

Not your usual Johannes Cabal story, but enjoyable. This is a very short one, but, because I'm a bit dim, I had to go back and reread the earlier parts after I'd finished to properly enjoy the way Howard is playing around here. Poor Johannes. The best laid plans of even the most rational necromancers “gang”, as Robert Burns would put it, “aft agley” when dealing with time-travel paradoxes and contradictions. A little slow in starting, especially given the length of the story, but clever, and it's fun to see Johannes flummoxed, even briefly. 3 ½ stars. ( )