{"product_id":"9781429914086","title":"The Draco Tavern","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e When 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 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 all of various species of visiting aliens, a place he named the Draco Tavern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection includes:\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\"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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Losing Mars\" in this unpublished tale, a group of aliens who call Mars and its moon home, arrive at the Tavern only to find that humans have mostly forgotten about their neighboring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\u003eAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tor Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154129338608,"sku":"9781429914086","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429914086_p0.jpg?v=1769901953","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429914086","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}