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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 Mar

Who reads The Draco Tavern?

Author

Larry Niven

Publisher

Tor Books

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780765347718

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Science Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.89 / 5 (57 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14