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Bartender Rick Shumann at his Siberian tavern catering to aliens, narrates 26 tales include: "The Subject Is Closed" - Could AI stop working on life after death because subject solved? "Table Manners" - Is Rick hunter or hunted by five Folk aliens? "Losing Mars" - Unpublished. Aliens on Mars angry humans forget their planet. Contents: 11 • Introduction (The Draco Tavern) • essay by Larry Niven 17 • The Subject Is Closed • [Draco Tavern] • (1977) • shortstory by Larry Niven 25 • Grammar Lesson • [Draco Tavern] • (1977) • shortstory by Larry Niven 33 • Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing! • [Draco Tavern] • (1978) • shortstory by Larry Niven 41 • The Schumann Computer • [Draco Tavern] • (1979) • shortstory by Larry Niven 49 • The Green Marauder • [Draco Tavern] • (1980) • shortstory by Larry Niven 57 • The Real Thing • [Draco Tavern] • (1981) • shortstory by Larry Niven 65 • War Movie • [Draco Tavern] • (1981) • shortstory by Larry Niven 73 • Limits • [Draco Tavern] • (1981) • shortstory by Larry Niven 81 • Table Manners • [Draco Tavern] • (1984) • shortstory by Larry Niven (variant of Folk Tale) 101 • One Night at the Draco Tavern • [Draco Tavern] • (1991) • shortstory by Larry Niven 107 • The Heights • [Draco Tavern] • (2001) • shortstory by Larry Niven 123 • The Wisdom of Demons • [Draco Tavern] • (2000) • shortstory by Larry Niven 131 • Smut Talk • [Draco Tavern] • (2000) • shortstory by Larry Niven 145 • Ssoroghod's People • [Draco Tavern] • (2001) • shortstory by Larry Niven 155 • The Missing Mass • [Draco Tavern] • (2000) • shortstory by Larry Niven 175 • The Convergence of the Old Mind • [Draco Tavern] • (2002) • shortstory by Larry Niven 185 • Chrysalis • [Draco Tavern] • (2002) • shortstory by Larry Niven 199 • The Death Addict • [Draco Tavern] • (2003) • shortstory by Larry Niven 209 • Storm Front • [Draco Tavern] • (2004) • shortstory by Larry Niven 215 • The Slow Ones • [Draco Tavern] • (2005) • shortstory by Larry Niven 225 • Cruel and Unusual • [Draco Tavern] • (1977) • shortstory by Larry Niven 231 • The Ones Who Stay Home • [Draco Tavern] • (2003) • shortstory by Larry Niven 239 • Breeding Maze • [Draco Tavern] • (1980) • shortstory by Larry Niven 255 • Playhouse • [Draco Tavern] • (2006) • shortstory by Larry Niven 273 • Lost • [Draco Tavern] • (2006) • shortstory by Larry Niven 283 • Losing Mars • [Draco Tavern] • (2006) • shortstory by Larry Niven 291 • Playground Earth • [Draco Tavern] • (2006) • shortstory by Larry Niven
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Michael Morley
reviewed The Draco Tavern on November 08, 2012 The Draco Tavern
The best of these might become Larry Niven's literary immortality
These stories date from 1977 to 2006, and feature the very long-lived Chirpsithra, the masters of the galaxy's red-dwarf planets, and the owner-operators of the great interstellar liners that occasionally stop at Earth. The chirps mingle with the locals, and an amazing variety of other star-travelers, at the fabled Draco Tavern near their shuttle landing-ground at Mt. Forel, Siberia.
So pull up a really high barstool, so you can look the eleven-foot tall chirps in the eye, and order a Tee tee hatch nex ool-compatible cocktail from the Draco's amazingly versatile barkeep....
Boy, are the Draco stories good. Age shall not wither, nor custom stale, the best of these remarkable vignettes: "The Green Marauder," "War Movie," "Limits." They might well become his literary immortality.
And some of the newer ones might well join the classics. The collection spans 1977 to 2006, including one or two first published here. There are minor retcons and continuity fixes, which help the flow. Check it out.
TOC:
Here's a sample story from the collection: "Smut Talk" (2000), 3 stars:
And another, "The Missing Mass" (2000), a neat little explanation for that cosmological mystery:
And here's a new-to-me Draco vignette, "The Artists" (2011): . Clever & quick, 3.5 stars.
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