The Draco Tavern by Larry Niven

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Bebebebeque

Chirpsithra

Folk

Gligstith(click)optok

Grey Mourner

Ilwan

Low Jumbo

Qarasht

Rosyfin

Wahartht

Warbler

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"They’re salmon red, exoskeletal like lobsters; they stand eleven feet tall and weigh one hundred and twenty pounds. The elderly are shorter, with a graying shell; see “The Green Marauder.” They’re all female."

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Illustration of an eleven-foot-tall, salmon-red, exoskeletal creature resembling a lobster, towering over a human.

Illustration of towering, salmon-red, exoskeletal creatures resembling female lobsters, armed and marching, as described in The Green Marauder.

Illustration of an eleven-foot tall, salmon red, exoskeletal creature resembling a lobster, standing amidst a misty environment.

Illustration of an eleven-foot-tall, exoskeletal creature resembling a red lobster, standing next to a human for scale.

"Folk look something like wolves with their heads on upside down."

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"The Ilwan were short and broad, with lumpy gray skins. Their hands were clumsy, their noses long and mobile and dexterous. We found them unpleasantly homely. Perhaps they thought the same of us."

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"They were gray and compact beings, proportioned like a human linebacker, much shorter than the Chirpsithra. They wore furs against Earth’s cold, fur patterned in three tones of green, quite pretty."

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"Eleven feet tall, dressed in pouched belts and their own salmon-colored exoskeletons,"

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A character with a salmon-colored exoskeleton and belts, resembling an armored knight with a crustacean-like appearance.

Illustration of a tall alien creature with a salmon-colored exoskeleton, wearing pouch belts and a shoulder cape against an abstract pink background.

Illustration of an eleven-foot-tall character with a salmon-colored exoskeleton and pouched belts, resembling a humanoid lobster.

A digital art image of a character with a salmon-colored lobster exoskeleton wearing pouched belts.

"That bulk of thick fur, pale blue striped with black in narrow curves,... Its sense cluster and stalk rose out of the fur like a python rising from a bed of moss. A snake with no mouth: just two big wide-set black bubbles for eyes and an ear like a pink blossom set between them, and a tuft of fine hairs along the stalk to serve for smell and taste, and a brilliant ruby crest on top."

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"Rippling in the murky fluid within the transparent globe, the dorsal fin was triangular, rose-colored, fragile as gossamer, and ran from nose to tail of a body that looked like a flattened slug."

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"They look a little like Siberian elkhounds, if you don’t mind the head. The head is big. The eyes are below the jawline, and face forward. There’s a nostril on top that closes tight or opens like a trumpet. They weigh about a hundred pounds. Their fingers are above the callus, and they curl up out of the way. Their fur is black, sleek, with white markings in curly lines."

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"The pointed mouths show two down-pointing daggers in front, then a gap, then teeth that look like two conical canines fused together. They look vicious. The eyes face forward in deep sockets below the hinges of the jaw: white with brown irises, oddly human. Their fingers are short and thick, tipped with thick claws, three to a forefoot, with the forward edge of the pad to serve as a thumb."

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"featherless birds... A Warbler was the size of a winning jockey, with wings built something like a hawk’s under a slick skin of what looked like natural cellophane. Above a foreshortened beak its head bulged: streamlining sacrificed for a larger brain, porcelain-white eyes that faced straight forward, and stiff canards steered by jaw muscles."

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Genres Featured In The Draco Tavern

Science Fiction (Major)

Speculative Fiction (Prominent)

Fantasy (Sub-Genre)

Humor (Notable)

Themes Featured In The Draco Tavern

Alien Interaction (Significant)

Cultural Exchange (Moderate)

Humanity's Place in the Universe (Noticable)

Technology and its Impact (Minor)

Exploration of the Unknown (Moderate)

Adaptation and Survival (Noticable)

The Nature of Consciousness (Minor)

Tones In The Draco Tavern

Curiosity (Moderate)

Humor (Noticable)

Wonder (Strong)

Skepticism (Mild)

Nostalgia (Mild)

Adventure (Very Strong)

Surrealism (Strong)

Friendliness (Moderate)

Tension (Noticable)

Philosophical (Moderate)

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