Subject is Closed, The

Publication date: 
1977-05
Publication type: 
Short Story
Published: 
Cosmos, May 1977, as Three Vignettes
Opus No.: 
100
Setting: 
Draco Tavern
I.U.C.: 
D.T. 01
Characters: 
Rick Schumann
Summary: 

Rick Schumann consoles a young clergyman who quizzes some long-lived aliens about life after death and is quite shaken by what he hears...

Reprints: 

anthology, Aliens!, edited by Gardner Dozois and Jack M. Dann (as Four Vignettes);
Another Round at the Spaceport Bar, ed. George H. Scithers & Darrell Schweitzer, Avon, April 1989;
Convergent Series
Draco Tavern, The
Niven's Laws