Armed citizen thwarts home invasion robbery

On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:17:20 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Richard Lamb quickly quoth:

Yes, the Ringworld Children was released in 2004. See this site for more info and a bibliography:

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!!!!!

More tales form teh Draco Tavern coming up/out now?!?

Oh *GOODY*! Now to find it someplace a bit cheper - Much as I love my books, I can't justify shelling out 20 bucks for a couple hundred pages of SF. A tech manual, maybe. Entertainment, uh-uh...

ROFLMAO!

My laptop's equipped with a serious heat generator - a Pentium 4 (NOT the "mobile" but the desktop version) - and, while the bottom gets "warm", doesn't produce quite enough to cause second-degree burns.

On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:57:16 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm, Don Bruder quickly quoth:

I don't remember where that came from, but I just noticed the Burning Tower was released. I hadn't read that and it's in the library system. I just now reserved it. Oh GOODY!

In article , snipped-for-privacy@diversify.com wrote:

The web page cited, silly! :)

Up to now, the various tales from the Draco Tavern have been shorts that just kind of "pop up" here and there amongst his various collected shorts. Basically, The Draco Tavern is Larry's "playground" - It's a bar owned and operated by a human who has been out to the stars, had his fun, made his fortune, and come home to settle down, but can't live with the whole "retired" concept, so he upens up a bar. But not just ANY bar... This one is somehow connected to a (THE? It's never made totally clear) major spaceport where most (all?) aliens from all of Known Space come to Earth for whatever reasons they may have for doing so. The barkeep has to stock various exotic intoxicants such as "sparkers" (some not-clearly-specified electric thingy that's the favorite intoxicant of Chirpsith'ra) or Grog delicacies, or any of a bajillion other "odd items" that may or may not be toxic to humans, but are the favorite "tipple" of one race or another. The one that I can remember most clearly is a depressed alien that Draco sits down and has a talk with. Turns out he's going home to commit some form of ritual suicide with the rest of his race. Why? Beacuse Earthlings gave up war once they found out there were other races out there, which bankrupted the race. How'd that happen? Well, up until humans stoped whooping on each other, this race sent in what us dumb humans came to call "foo fighters" - Actually camera and sensor platforms that recorded the battles, which were, to the rest of the galaxy, not unlike our own (wait for it...) soap operas. But what *REALLY* killed them was the fact that other races noticed that they were "meddling" in human affairs, trying to get new footage by inciting new wars...

Depending on what Larry's got on his mind, you might find a Grog debating with a Pierson's Puppeteer (well, in earlier ones - Nowdays, of course, all but a handful of the PP race are fleeing the explosion at the core of the galaxy on the fleet of worlds) over the morality (or lack thereof) of Chirpsith'ra dining on vat-grown human meat as a Kzin looks on and inserts commentary now and again, or a half dozen Dolphins on leave discussing Bandersnatchi genetics, or a prospector with a hot tip on the location of a previously unknown slaver stasis box, but no funds to get there and investigate, or any of who-knows-how-many critters of Larry's from every corner of known space interacting (not always peacefully, sometimes profitably, but rarely boringly) with each other and/or earthlings.

On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:34:00 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm, Don Bruder quickly quoth:

I saw that book listing about a minute after sending the post, of course.

Oh, yeah, I remember that bar now.

(major snip)

This is true. ;)

I always believed that the Draco Tavern was copied by Lucas for the Star Wars bar scene.

I mean ALL of Larry's characters were there...]

Richard

(found _Ringworld's Children_ this evening. Thanks!)

I think George said as much, at one point, but I can't say if that's just my imagination, or where it was if it's reality. I'd imagine that if it wasn't at least agreed to by Larry, there'd be a flap over it, 'cause the "lift" is just *TOO* obvious to be anything but.

Besides - I don't think George has ever made any bones about the whole Star Wars thing having a a secondary intention to the "obvious" tale it tells - Namely, being, by its very existence, a gigantic tip of the proverbial hat to all the great SF/Fantasy authors he loved growing up - Larry being a prominent member of that group.

Let me know what you think when you get done, eh? Prolly advisable to do it via email. Just pay attention to the simple 'destructions' in my sig. :)

Too close to the shower. Laptops dont do well when wet.

Gunner

"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences."

- Proverbs 22:3

just happened to come across this..

(while checking out this...

My sentiments exactly, regarding reading for pleasure on a CRT or LCD.

This looks interesting, though:

R, Tom Q.

So resorting to knife violence or baseball bat violence or fist violence or nunchak violence or guitar violence or broken bottle violence or whatever would be OK and it's just "gun violence" that you find objectionable as a means of self defense?

You've missed "Building Harlequin's Moon"--don't know how much of that is Niven and how much Brenda Cooper, but it's worth the read IMO.

Yeah, he's one of those types. This thread is also a month or so old and has died a natural death.

You're right: It's dead.

That being said I'd just like to ask a question. Is it really gun violence the whiners are complaining about? I don't think so because there's been no call for the police to turn in their weapons (is there?) they use on the behalf of the whiners. If they were so worried about guns per se they'd be doing something about the rest of the guns as well. But no; it's CERTAINLY ok for police to shoot criminals as the whiners pet executioner. Kind of like people who are so squeamish they wouldn't think of killing and cleaning an animal but it's ok for others to do it for their benefit.

And so, if you live in a secure gated community free of the possibility of crime (in your mind, of course) then you see no present danger and you don't imagine others would feel any different. Why would you have to actually kill someone when that task is taken care of for you somewhere "out there" by others?

dennis in nca

Re: Metal content? What's that? (was Re: Armed citizen thwarts home invasion robbery)

Glad you dropped in, because I couldn't find this thread to reply...(go figer)

I read Ringworld's Children in one sit. Couldn't put it down for some reason.

All along I was thinking that this is the most straight forward tale Larry ever wrote - but then got to the Very Twisty Surprise Ending!

I'll go find Building Harlequib's Moon someday fairly soon.

But I got side tracked by Dewey Lambdin's tales about Alan Lewrie's naval adventures for the time being.

I grew up on Horatio Hornblower, and had a fun with Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey. But Lewrie is for sure and certain my kind of rake!

Richard

Oh yeah, metal content... Wooden Ships and Iron Men!

Sorry guys, Lazurus rised from the dead...

Only a fool would bring a knife to a gun fight.

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:51:54 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, "J. Clarke" quickly quoth:

I just finished the latest Nivenovel, Burning Tower. It was pretty good, but I sure like the off-world stuff better. I'll see if I can find a copy of BHM soon. Until then, I'm off to finish reading all of Andre Norton's stuff. I've devoured all of her series' ('cept Witch World, which didn't really float my boat much) so it's on to the singles now.

- - - Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever. ---

Actually the best part of the story is the effect it has on the hun thousands of other creeps that now have to think twice before going into any home.