The Draco Tavern

De: Larry Niven

Narrado por: Tom Weiner

When a tremendous spacecraft takes orbit around Earth's moon and begins sending smaller landers down toward the North Pole, the newly arrived visitors quickly set up a permanent spaceport in Siberia. Their presence attracts many, and a few grow conspicuously rich from secrets they learn from talking to the aliens. One of these men, Rick Schumann, establishes a tavern catering to all the various species of visiting aliens, a place he calls the Draco Tavern.

From the mind of best-selling author Larry Niven come 27 tales and vignettes from this interstellar gathering place, in collected form for the first time. Join Rick and his staff as they chronicle the seemingly infinite alien species that spend a few moments pondering life and all its questions within the Draco Tavern.

Hi-fi sci-fi: don't miss any of our Larry Niven titles.©2006 Larry Niven (P)2006 Blackstone Audio Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"[The tales read] like brilliant, half-whimsical notebook jottings." ( Publishers Weekly)
"Niven...showcases his ability to use SF to explore mind-boggling, universal questions....[The stories], taken altogether, radiate Niven's wit and technological inventiveness." ( Booklist)

Terrific

Niven will always be one the best authors ever. A great collection of short stories. B)

Larry Niven, always a good read

I’ve been a huge fan of Larry Niven’s novels for decades. I recently started listening to them on audible, and it’s been a whole new way to enjoy the books. It’s like having a personal narrator bringing the stories to life!

Needed more

This is my second favorite Niven book. Love it. It needed a sequel of a few sequels…

Made my long drives a lot of fun.

Too bad this is so short. What a great bit of fantasy cast in a believable everyday narrative. This is definitely in the "light" category, but it will make you laugh and forget about all the idiots in the news or on the road near you.

best ever

The narration and the story are better then I remember it from my first reading of the paperback

great layout in vignette format!!

short stories in a connected overarching universe....or tavern!

interesting and creative takes on aliens and their possible interactions with humans. great stuff

A Great Listen

This is really just a lot of fun to listen to.
I have read everything that Larry Niven has written. Most things more than once. I was hooked on his short stories over three decades ago when I read "Neutron Star". His humor and his insight into the human race and his ability to ask the "What if?" question and then take that ball and run with it is always paramount.
In this collection (which contains a couple of stories not in earlier collections) he answers "What if a human had the only alien species friendly bar on earth?"
Each time I read or listen to these stories I am refreshed and I find something new to think about and I have a chuckle or two.
I think you will too!

excellent reader

Larry Niven short stories are always fun and this is a good intro to Known Space

It's Larry Niven

It's Larry Niven. How could you go wrong? It's a very enjoyable anthology of related short stories. The reader was good, providing no distractions from the story. I just read Clifford Simak's Way Station, and they complement each other well.

Easy listen.

This is a great way to make a long car ride shorter. Niven has a great imagination and his writings are just right for a SiFi novice like me.