Draco Tavern

The #1 New York Times-bestselling author presents twenty-six tales and vignettes from this interplanetary gathering place: &quote;A must for Nivenites&quote; (Booklist).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, opened the Draco Tavern, a public house catering to all species of visiting aliens.In &quote;The Subject Is Closed&quote;, a priest visits the tavern and goes one-on-one with a chirpsithra alien on the subject of God and life after death. Rick Schumann is invited to hunt with five folk aliens in &quote;Table Manners&quote;, but he begins to wonder if he will be the hunted. And in the never-before-published tale &quote;Losing Mars&quote;, a group of Martians arrive at the Tavern only to find that humans have mostly forgotten about their neighboring planet.