The Draco Tavern - Larry Niven [0]
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Tor Books by Larry Niven
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Introduction
THE SUBJECT IS CLOSED
GRAMMAR LESSON
ASSIMILATING OUR CULTURE, THAT’S WHAT THEY’RE DOING!
THE SCHUMANN COMPUTER
THE GREEN MARAUDER
THE REAL THING
WAR MOVIE
LIMITS
TABLE MANNERS*
ONE NIGHT AT THE DRACO TAVERN
THE HEIGTS
THE WISDOM OF DEMONS
SMUT TALK
SSOROGHOD’S PEOPLE
THE MISSING MASS
THE CONVERGENCE OF THE OLD MIMD
CHRYSALIS
THE DEATH ADDICT
STORM FRONT
THE SLOW ONES
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
THE ONES WHO STAY HOME
BREEDING MAZE
PLAYHOUSE
DAY ZERO
DAY ONE
DAY TWO
DAY THREE
DAY FIVE
DAY NINE
DAY TEN
DAY THIRTY-ONE
LOST
LOSING MARS
PLAYGROUND EARTH
Praise for The Draco Tavern
“There are wise elder races and there are scamsters and folks who raise interesting questions. In some ways, the object-lesson stories remind one of pundits’ political columns.... Thought provoking.”
—San Diego Union-Tribune
“Brilliant ... These stories are best taken a few at a time to savor their inventiveness.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Reads more like an episodic novel ... There’s joy and sadness and everything in between in these stories—which seem to have been devised as vehicles for Niven to explore a wide variety of ideas and also happen to be about what it means to be human. One of the ways in which we learn about who we are is to see what we are not, and in this book there are many examples of what humans are not.”
—Romantic Times BookReviews
Praise for Ringworld’s Children
“An involving and engrossing addition to one of science fiction’s grand sagas.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Niven’s world has an inner logic grounded in science.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“It’s a pleasure to be back on the largest structure in known space. How can you not be excited about a book like this?”
—SFRevu.com
“A sense of wonder in a fantastic landscape.”
—Amazing Stories
Tor Books by Larry Niven
N-Space
Playgrounds of the Mind
Rainbow Mars
Scatterbrain
The Draco Tavern
Ringworld’s Children
WITH STEVEN BARNES
Achilles’ Choice
The Descent of Anansi
Saturn’s Race
WITH JERRY POURNELLE AND STEVEN BARNES
Destiny’s Road
Beowulf’s Children
WITH BRENDA COOPER
Building Harlequin’s Moon
WITH EDWARD M. LERNER
Fleet of Worlds*
*Forthcoming
NOTE: If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as “unsold and destroyed” to the publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this “stripped book.”
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE DRACO TAVERN
Copyright © 2006 by Larry Niven
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
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ISBN- 13: 978-0-7653-4771-8 ISBN- 10: 0-7653-4771-7
First Edition: January 2006
First Mass Market Edition: December 2006
Printed in the United States of America
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COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction. Copyright © 2006 by Larry Niven
The Subject Is Closed. Copyright © 1977, 1979 by Larry Niven
Grammar Lesson. Copyright © 1977, 1979 by Larry Niven Assimilating Our Culture, That’s What They’re Doing! Copyright © 1979 by Larry Niven
The Schumann Computer. Copyright © 1979 by Larry Niven
The Green Marauder. Copyright © 1979, 1980 by Larry Niven
The Real Thing. Copyright © 1981 in German; copyright © 1982, 1990 in English by Larry Niven
War Movie. Copyright © 1981, 1984 by Larry Niven
Limits. Copyright 1981, 1984 by Larry Niven
Table Manners (originally published as “Folk Tale”). Copyright © 1984, 1985 by Larry Niven
One Night at the Draco Tavern. Copyright © 1991 by Larry Niven
The Heights. Copyright © 2001, 2006 by Larry Niven
The Wisdom