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The Draco Tavern
| Author: | Larry Niven |
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Tor, 2006 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Light/Humorous SF |
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Synopsis
From the mind of #1 New York Times bestselling author Larry Niven, come twenty-six tales and vignettes from this interplanetary gathering place, collected for the first time in one volume.
When a tremendous spacecraft took orbit around the Earth's moon and began sending smaller landers down toward the North Pole, the newly arrived visitors quickly set up a permanent spaceport at Mount Forel in Siberia. Their presence attracted many, and a few people grew conspicuously rich from secrets they learned from talking to the aliens. One of these men, Rick Schumann established a tavern catering to all of various species of visiting aliens, a place he named the Draco Tavern.
This collection includes:
"The Subject Is Closed": A priest visits the tavern and goes one-on-one with a chirpsithra alien on the subject of God and life after death.
"Table Mannners: A Folk Tale": Rick Schumann is invited to hunt with five folk aliens, but he's not quite sure what their hunt entails, or if he will be the hunted.
"Wisdom of Demons": The age-old question of wisdom vs. knowledge is asked when Rick is confronted by a human who has been granted the wisdom of an individual gligstith(click)optok alien.
"Losing Mars" in this unpublished tale, a group of aliens who call Mars and its moon home, arrive at the Tavern only to find that humans have mostly forgotten about their neighboring planet.
Contains:
- The Subject is Closed
- Grammar Lesson
- Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing!
- The Schumann Computer
- The Green Marauder
- The Real Thing
- War Movie
- Limits
- Table Manners
- One Night at the Draco Tavern
- The Heights
- The Wisdom of Demons
- Smut Talk
- SSoroghod's People
- The Missing Mass
- The Convergence of the Old Mind
- Chyrsalis
- The Death Addict
- Storm Front
- The Slow Ones
- Cruel and Unusual
- The One Who Stay Home
- Breeding Maze
- Playhouse
- Lost
- Losing Mars
- Playground Earth
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