Subject is Closed, The
Author:
Publication date:
1977-05
Publication type:
Short Story
Published:
Cosmos, May 1977, as Three Vignettes
Opus No.:
100
Setting:
Draco Tavern
I.U.C.:
D.T. 01
Characters:
Rick Schumann
Summary:
Rick Schumann consoles a young clergyman who quizzes some long-lived aliens about life after death and is quite shaken by what he hears...
Notes:
Four Vignettes, along with:
Cruel and Unusual
Grammar Lesson
Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing!
Reprints:
anthology, Aliens!, edited by Gardner Dozois and Jack M. Dann (as Four Vignettes);
Another Round at the Spaceport Bar, ed. George H. Scithers & Darrell Schweitzer, Avon, April 1989;
Convergent Series
Draco Tavern, The
Niven's Laws