title: Aliens!
text: # Aliens!
  
  Aliens! is a themed anthology of science fiction short works edited by American writers Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann, the first in a series of themed anthologies. It was first published in paperback by Pocket Books in April 1980. Subsequent volumes in the series were published by Ace Books.
  
  ## Summary
  
  The book collects fourteen novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, including four Draco Tavern stories by Larry Niven, with a general foreword and individual introductions to each piece by the editors, together with a bibliography of further reading.
  
  ## Contents
  
  * "Foreword" (Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann)
  * "Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing" (Larry Niven)
  * "Grammar Lesson" (Larry Niven)
  * "The Subject Is Closed" (Larry Niven)
  * "Cruel and Unusual" (Larry Niven)
  * "We Purchased People" (Frederik Pohl)
  * "Guesting Time" (R. A. Lafferty)
  * "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" (James Tiptree, Jr.)
  * "Angel's Egg" (Edgar Pangborn)
  * "Oh, to Be a Blobel!" (Philip K. Dick)
  * "Be Merry" (Algis Budrys)
  * "Pattern" (Fredric Brown)
  * "An Honorable Death" (Gordon R. Dickson)
  * "The Reality Trip" (Robert Silverberg)
  * "Rule Golden" (Damon Knight)
  * "Alien-Human Relations - A Guide to Further Reading"
  