Synopses & Reviews
The kzin, formerly invincible conquerors of all they encountered, had a hard time dealing with their ignominious defeat by the leaf-eating humans. Some secretly hatched schemes for a rematch, others concentrated on gathering power within the kzin hierarchy, and some shamefully cooperated with the contemptible humans, though often for hidden motives. In war and in uneasy peace, kzin and humans continue their adventures, as told by Hal Colebatch, Paul Chafe, and Michael Joseph Harrington, expanding on the concepts created by
New York Times best-selling writer Larry Niven.
· A human secret agent and her hired kzin companion infiltrate a planet newly occupied by the kzin, and discover that humans were on the planet before the dawn of space travel, and claim to be part of the Roman Empire. Where did they come fromand can they survive the inevitable kzin attack?
· A man wakes up with over a months gap in his memory. He remembers being hired by a mysterious woman for a job with the condition that his memory would be scrubbed afterward. Obviously, the scrub worked, but now the police suspect him of murdering the missing woman. And a kzin is threatening him with much worse than anything the police would do.
· The Protectorspowerful ancestors of the human race who live only to guard it and destroy all its enemieshave learned that the kzin have discovered a rich cache of anti-matter in deep space. One Protector brings a human out of stasis-sleep and enlists his involuntary help in her desperate mission to stop the kzin from gaining this source of unimaginable power.
These stories and more fill an exciting volume of human/alien conflict. Once again, its howling time in Known Space!
About the Author
Larry Niven has authored many
New York Times bestsellers, both alone (
The Integral Trees,
The Ringworld Throne)
and in collaboration with Jerry Pournelle (
The Mote in Gods Eye,
Lucifers Hammer,
Footfall). His Known Space series, from which the fabulously successful Man-Kzin Wars books derive, is a landmark of modern science fiction, as popular as Heinleins Future History series and Asimovs Foundation series. When Arthur C. Clarke appeared on a talk show and was asked to name his favorite science fiction writer, he immediately answered “Larry Niven.” Winner of a Nebula award and five Hugo awards, Niven is among the foremost SF writers of the new century.