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A Del Rey Book
Published by Ballantine Books

Copyright (c) 1985 by Larry Niven

All rights reserved under International and Pan~American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Manufactured in the United States of America
CONTENTS
Introduction vii
The Lion in His Attic 1

Spirals
by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle 20
A Teardrop Falls 56

Talisman
by Larry Niven and Dian Girard 66
Flare Time 96

The Locusts
by Larry Niven and Steve Barnes 133

Yet Another Modest Proposal:
The Roentgen Standard 169

MORE TALES FROM THE DRACO TAVERN.
Folk Tale 175
The Green Marauder 188
War Movie 192
The Real Thing 197
Limits 201
INTRODUCrION









Half my output used to be short stories.
It's common knowledge in this field that the money is in novels; but it's also true that stories come in their own length. Stretching an idea beyond its length is even worse than overcompressing it. Ordinarily I would have continued to write short stories,
What happened was, I hit a bump in my career.
A novice writer shouid try anything, not just to pay the rent, but because he needs practice, versatility, skills. Later he must learn to turn down bad offers: the first bump.
The second bump comes when he learns to turn down good offers.
I'm a slow learner.
I learned to say no; but that was only a couple of years ago. Show me a contract and I flinch; but III committed myself years ago, it gets signed; and then the book must be written.
Footfall, being written with Jerry Pournelle, is a year and a half overdue and finished. But everything else is backed up behind it.