Man-Kzin Wars IX (Man-Kzin Wars)

SUMMARY: The Kzin are warcats supreme, bringing the galaxy under feline dominion. Then the pesky humans come along to cut the dauntless Heroes to ribbons. Includes contributions by Poul Anderson, Paul Chafe, and Hall Colebatch. SUMMARY: The Kzin are warcats supreme, bringing the galaxy under feline dominion. Then the pesky humans come along to cut the dauntless Heroes to ribbons. Includes contributions by Poul Anderson, Paul Chafe, and Hall Colebatch. Science fiction,General,Science Fiction & Fantasy,Fiction,Fiction - Science Fiction,Science Fiction - General,Space Opera,Adventure,Fantasy,Science Fiction - Adventure,Science Fiction - Space Opera,Imaginary wars and battles,Science Fiction - Military,Kzin (Imaginary place),Fantasy fiction - lcsh,Kzin (Imaginary place) - Fiction

it Was So Unfair! Here The Kzin Were, Warcats Supreme, Bringing The Galaxy Piece By Piece Under Feline Dominion, Carving Out Satrapies For The Home Planet Like The Lords Of Creation That They Were - And Then They Ran Into Those Pesky Humans. Mere Apes! Contemptible Salad-eaters! Taking Pride In Sneaking Up On A Leaf! Obviously Fit Only To Be Lunch, Not Even A Speed Bump In The Kzinti's Imperial Career. Hardly Worth Screaming-and-leaping About. But When The Feline Kzin Moved In To Take Over The Monkey-occupied Worlds - They Got Clobbered. The Humans, With Their Underhanded Monkey Cunning, Turned Communications Equipment And Space Drives Into Weapons That Cut The Dauntless Heroes Into Ribbons. When The Humans Gained A Faster-than-light Drive, It Was All Over But The, Uh, Howling. The Kzin Had Lost Their First War Ever In Centuries Of Conquest. Still, You Can't Keep A Good Warcat Down, And The Kzin Have By No Means Given Up. New Weapons, New Strategies, And New Leaders - The Humans Had Better Keep Their Powder Dry. Once Again, It's Howling Time In Known Space!

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the Ninth Shared-world Anthology Laid In Niven's Known Space Universe During The Wars Against Those Fighting Felinoids, The Alien Kzin, Offers Four Notably Readable Long Stories. In The Late Poul Anderson's Pele, A Human Couple On A Research Expedition Rescue A Kzin With More Courage Than Sense. Hal Colebatch's His Sergeant's Honor, Probably The Book's Strongest Entry, Features A Kzin Who Backs Up His Race's Fanatical Concept Of Honor With Keen Tactical Sense. In Paul Chafe's Windows Of The World, A Member Of The Un Police, Arm Captain Joel K. Allson, And Allson's Kzin Partner Confront A Mysterious Murder Aboard An Orbital Habitat, Along With Several Conspiracies And A Beautiful Suspect. Niven's Own Fly-by-night Features Beowulf Shaeffer Rescuing The Title Character From Another Kzin With Vaulting Ambitions And A Keen Eye For Legal Loopholes. For Action And Military Sf Fans, These Four Tales Intelligently Develop The Kzin, Who Still Have All The Ferocity Of Their Carnivorous, Predatory Ancestors But Have Assumed More Complexity As They Carry Their Civilization Into Space. At A Time When Mindless Brutality May Strike A Somewhat Negative Note With Many Readers, More Sophisticated Kzin Will Add To The Audience For These Well-wrought Aliens And Their Human Friends And Foes. Stephen Hickman's Menacing, Prosthetically Enhanced Catlike Hero From His Sergeant's Honor Almost Jumps Off The Jacket. (jan.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

THOSE KZIN DON'T KNOW WHEN THEY'RE LICKED (AND MAYBE THEY AREN'T...) It was so unfair! Here the Kzin were, warcats supreme, carving out empires like the idefatigable lords of creation that they were - and then they ran into those pesky humans. Mere apes! Contemptible weed-eaters! Hardly worth the screaming and leaping upon... But when the feline Kzin moved in to take over the monkey-occupied worlds, they got clobbered. The humans, with their underhanded monkey cunning, turned communications equiptment and space drives into weapons that cut the dauntless Kzin heroes into ribbons. When the humans gained faster-than-light drive, it was all over but the, uh, howling. The Kzin had lost their first war in centuries of successful conquest. Still, you can't keep a good warcat down, and the Kzin have by no means given up. New weapons, new strategies, and new leaders - the Kzin are on the march and the humans had better keep their powder dry. Once again, it's howling time in Known Space! For action and military SF fans, these four tales intelligently develop the Kzin... will add to the audience for these well-wrought aliens and their human friends and foes. - Publishers Weekly One of the longest-running and most successful shared-world anthology series continues to explore different aspects of the wars and other relations of humanity and the felinoid, ferocious, surprisingly complex Kzin - Booklist Cover illustration: Stephen Hickman The Man-Kzin wars is a series of military science fiction short stories. It was created by Larry Niven and set in his Known Space universe. Niven himself wrote only a few stories but with a large demand for more stories, he allowed the Man-Kzin Wars to become a shared universe, starting with the the release of 1988 release of The Man-Kzin Wars The powerful Kzin warriors' plans for galactic domination under feline control are turned upside down by the cunning and pesky humans, but the Kzin have come up with a new scheme to achieve their goals, in a science fiction anthology featuring contributions by Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Paul Chafe, and Hal Colebatch. Reprint. New weapons, new strategies and new leaders - the Kzin (warcats supreme) are on the march again and those contemptible humans had better watch out. Once again, it's howling time in Known Space. Close to noon, the Father Sun baked pungencies out of turf and turned the forest that walled the northern horizon into a wind-whispery surf of leaves and shadow.