Limits

Publication date: 
1981-09
Publication type: 
Short Story
Published: 
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1981
Opus No.: 
129
Setting: 
Draco Tavern
I.U.C.: 
D.T. 08
Characters: 
Rick Schumann
Summary: 

First printed in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1981. When the Draco Tavern's sound suppression system conks out, Rick Schumann overhears an idle discussion that turns into a deadly sentence for humanity!

Notes: 

Draco Tavern -- why are humans obsessed with limits?

Reprints: 

anthology, paper, Isaac Asimov's Aliens and Outworlders, 1983, Davis, edited by Shawna McCarthy;
Light Years and Dark, ed. Michael Bishop, Berkley 1984;
Niven's Laws
Limits
Playgrounds of the Mind
Draco Tavern, The
Best of Larry Niven, The