The Draco Tavern

Very light and easy reading, this collection of short SF stories is framed chronologically and all told from the PoV of the bartender/owner of the Draco Tavern, a waystation for aliens in the 2030's Siberia right here on Earth. I have nothing bad to say about any of the stories except that they're li......more

Bars, for some reason, are a recurring setting in science fiction and fantasy stories. So much so, in fact, that there were even a couple of anthologies--Tales From the Spaceport Bar and Another Round at the Spaceport Bar--revolving around the theme. To be fair, it's not just SF/F literature that ma......more

Larry Niven says in the Foreward, something to the effect of: "As a writer of science fiction, I need to think about big things, and I wanted a place where I could write about them in a short format." Larry, several of those ideas BLEW MY MIND. Essentially, the Draco Tavern is a collection of sci-fi......more

Great concept and great stories When I first started reading this anthology I commented that it reminded me of the book Tales from the White Hart by Arthur C. Clarke. Both are anthologies set as stories set in bars (in Clarke's case an English pub, in Niven's an interstellar watering hole). The stori......more

Some of the funniest, most original alien stories I had read in a while. The book is basically a mixture of fairly unrelated alien species and issues we might have in dealing with them. I love the way the stories are written and actually send an email to Niven asking for more :-) If you have never re......more