The Draco Tavern

The Draco Tavern

by
Larry Niven

Synopsis of The Draco Tavern

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 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 in this unpublished tale, a group of aliens who call Mars and its moon home, arrive at the Tavern only to find that humans have mostly forgotten about their neighboring planet.

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.

Reviews of The Draco Tavern

66%

For most science-fiction readers, these aliens and incidents will provide sufficient food for thought to make up for much of their literary deficiencies. -- D. Douglas Fratz, Scifi.com

Science fiction readers who treasure exploring cultural anthropology concepts that include aliens from Mars, Europa, and elsewhere will savor this compilation, a few anecdotes at a sitting toasting Larry Niven for opening the mind. -- Harriet Klausner, The Best Reviews

This is one of the best single Author, single Series collections that I've had the pleasure to read. -- Cat Eldridge, The Greenman Review