''great storytelling is still alive in science fiction because of larry niven''-orson scot card
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 names 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 MANNERS :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 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LOSING MARS:in this previously unpublished tale, a group of aliens who call mars and its moon home arrive at the tavern only to find that humans have mostly forgotten about trier neighboring planet.