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Man-Kzin Wars IX (The Man-Kzin Wars Series)

AUTHOR: Larry Niven
ISBN: 0743471458

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Man-Kzin Wars IX (The Man-Kzin Wars Series)
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by Larry Niven


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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. Niven's contribution brings Beowulf Schaefer into contact with a kzin trying to work around the law to earn his name. Paul Chafe's involves an ARM officer and his kzin partner in a mystery aboard an orbital depot, in which a shipping container and other things are hidden in plain sight. Hal Colebatch offers arguably the strongest entry this time with the story of a half-crippled kzin sergeant making a last stand against the human "liberation" of Wunderland while trying to preserve his honor by preserving the life of a collaborationist officer. Another distinguished contribution comes from the late Poul Anderson: a deep-space adventure in which two lovers rescue a kzin possessing more courage than sense, as is not uncommon with the breed. Roland Green
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Man-Kzin Wars IX (The Man-Kzin Wars Series)
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by Larry Niven

Man-Kzin Wars IX (The Man-Kzin Wars Series)

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THOSE KZIN DON'T KNOW WHEN THEY'RE LICKED (AND MAYBE THEY AREN'T￯﾿ᄑ)

It was so unfair! Here the Kzin were, warcats supreme, carving out empires like the indefatigable lords of creation that they were-and then they ran into those pesky humans. Mere apes! Contemptible weed-eaters! Hardly worth screaming and leaping upon￯﾿ᄑ

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 Kzin 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 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!


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