Draco Tavern

When a tremendous spacecraft took orbit around the Earths moon and began sending smaller landers down toward the North Pole the newly arrived visitors quickly set up a permanent spaceport 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 the 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folk aliens but hes not quite sure what their hunt entails or if he will be the hunted.Losing Mars: In this previously unpublished tale a group of aliens who call Mars and its moon home arrive at the tavern only to find that humans have mostly forgotten about their neighboring planet.