Green Marauder, The

Author:

Niven, Larry

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