{"product_id":"the-draco-tavern","title":"The 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what their hunt entails, or if he will be the hunted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Losing Mars\": In this previously unpublished tale, a group of aliens who call Mars and its moon home arrive at the tavern only to find that humans have mostly forgotten about their neighboring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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50378974757221,"sku":"9780765386434","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/0538\/5573\/files\/imageloader_d02ee413-7279-43f8-b026-922af6312f14.jpg?v=1791142822","url":"https:\/\/paralleluniversebooks.com\/products\/the-draco-tavern","provider":"Parallel Universe Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}