Draco Tavern, the (2006) [Collection]
by Larry Niven
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Series: Draco's Tavern
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Summary
(From the publisher):
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.
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, including:
“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 Manners: 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“Losing Mars” in this unpublished tale, a group of aliens who call Mars and its moon home, arrive at the Tavern only to find that humans have mostly forgotten about their neighboring planet.
Join Rick Schummann and his staff as they explore the alien passersby and attempt to chronicle the seemingly infinite alien species that spend a few moments pondering life and all its questions within the Draco Tavern.
Original title: The Draco Tavern
Original languages:
English
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Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Alien Beings→ Interspecies Relations
The following works are contained within this one:
Subject Is Closed, the (1977) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Cruel and Unusual (1977) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Grammar Lesson (1977) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing! (1979) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Schumann Computer, the (1979) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Green Marauder, the (1980) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Limits (1981) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Real Thing, the (1981) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
War Movie (1981) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Table Manners (1984) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
One Night at the Draco Tavern (1991) [Play]
Author: Larry Niven
Missing Mass, the (2000) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Wisdom of Demons, the (2000) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Smut Talk (2000) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Heights, the (2001) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Ssoroghod's People (2001) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Convergence of the Old Mind, the (2002) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Chrysalis (2002) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Ones Who Stay Home, the (2003) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Death Addict, the (2003) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Storm Front (2004) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Breeding Maze (2005) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Slow Ones, the (2005) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Lost (2006) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Losing Mars (2006) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Playground Earth (2006) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
Playhouse (2006) [Short Story]
Author: Larry Niven
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