The Draco Tavern CD

A tremendous spacecraft took orbit around the Earth+s moon and began sending landers 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 various species of visiting aliens, a place he named the Draco Tavern.From the mind of Larry Niven comes the complete, thought-provoking tales of the one place in the universe where all intelligent species can share a drink, laughs, and ideas, 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-or whom-will be the prey.-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a human who has been granted the wisdom of an individual gligstith(click)optok alien.-Losing Mars+: In this previously unpublished tale, a group of aliens from Mars and its moon arrive at the Tavern only to find that humans have mostly forgotten about their neighboring planet.Read More