Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing!

Author:

Niven, Larry

Publication date:

1978-11

Publication type:

Short Story

Published:

Destinies, Nov-Dec 1978, edited by James Baen

Opus No.:

108

Setting:

Draco Tavern

I.U.C.:

D.T. 03

Characters:

Rick Schumann

Summary:

The Draco Tavern plays host to a member of the first (and only) Embassy visit to the Gligstith(click)tcharf homeworld. As a party of Gligs order their first round of drinks, the Stranger tells why there was no second visit...

Notes:

Fourth vignette, along with:
Cruel and Unusual
Grammar Lesson
Subject is Closed, The

Reprints:

anthology, Aliens!, edited by Gardner Dozois and Jack M. Dann (as Four Vignettes);
anthology, The Best of Destinies, edited by James Baen;
Convergent Series;
Draco Tavern, The;
Niven's Laws;
Playgrounds of the Mind