{"product_id":"9780765386434","title":"Draco Tavern","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the mind of #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Larry Niven come twenty-six tales and vignettes from this interplanetary gathering place, collected for the first time in one volume, including:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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what their hunt entails, or if he will be the hunted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Losing Mars\": In this previously unpublished tale, a group of aliens who call Mars and its moon home arrive at the tavern only to find that humans have mostly forgotten about their neighboring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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47025820041456,"sku":"9780765386434","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780765386434_p0.jpg?v=1763658292","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780765386434","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}