Green Marauder, The

Publication date: 
1980-02
Publication type: 
Short Story
Published: 
Destinies, Feb-March 1980, edited by James Baen
Opus No.: 
120
Setting: 
Draco Tavern
I.U.C.: 
D.T. 05
Characters: 
Rick Schumann
Summary: 

Rick Schumann is invited to take a drink with possibly the oldest member of the Chirpsithra species he is likely to meet: an aged being over 2 billion years old who recalls how much Earth has changed since her previous visit, 570 million years ago

Notes: 

Draco Tavern -- a look at prehistoric Earth and the beings who built a civilization there.

Reprints: 

anthology, Dream's Edge, edited by Terry Carr (cloth and paper, Sierra Club Books);
anthology, Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Tenth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois, E.P. Dutton;
Top Science Fiction, ed. Josh Pachter, Dent 1984;
Tales from the Spaceport Bar, ed. George H. Scithers & Darrell Schweitzer, Avon 1987;
Sirius (Yugoslavian fanzine), broj 145;
Niven's Laws;
Playgrounds of the Mind;
Draco Tavern, The;
Limits