{"product_id":"draco-tavern-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.\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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: \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what their hunt entails, or if he will be the hunted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Losing Mars\": In this previously unpublished tale, a group of aliens who call Mars and its moon home arrive at the tavern only to find that humans have mostly forgotten about their neighboring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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780765386434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.75d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Larry Niven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36642567487644,"sku":"9780765386434","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7a69b6f8-a8d5-470c-a337-30aed5b11961.jpg?v=1603855084","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/draco-tavern-9780765386434","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}