Man-Kzin Wars IX
 THOSE KZIN DON'T KNOW WHEN
THEY'RE LICKED
(AND MAYBE THEY AREN'T . . . .)
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
wereand 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
worldsthey 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 `vas 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
leadersthe humans had better keep their powder dry. Once again, it's howling time in Known Space!
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
New York Times bestselling author and multiple award-winner Larry Niven is author of the Hugo and Nebula Award winning
Ringworld, a novel recognized as a milestone in modern science fiction. Like
Ringworld and its sequels, The Ringworld Engineers and The
Ringworld Throne, the Man-Kzin books are part of the Known Space series, possibly the most popular SF series of all time.
Poul Anderson, a seven-time Hugo Award winner, three-time Nebula Award winner, and recipient of the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America for lifetime achievement, has been both popular and prolific for five decades, creating Nicholas van Rijn and Sir Dominic Flandry, two of the most memorable characters in science fiction, and publishing over one hundred books.
Paul Chafe was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1965. Currently he is pursuing graduate studies in Electrical Engineering at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is an infantry officer in the Canadian forces Reserve and has served with four regiments. When he isn't writing he devotes his spare time to flying sailplanes, parachuting, cycling and travel. He has one son, Christian, who is 8.
Hal Colebatch lives in a suburb of Perth, Australia, where he practices law. His recent book,
Blair's Britain, was selected by the London Spectator's Taki as a book of the year. In addition to his earlier stories in the ManKzin saga, he has written mainstream fiction, biographies, plays, poetry, and several hundred articles. He has a Ph.D in Political Science, and has been an advisor to two Australian Federal Ministers. He is married and has two stepchildren.
Illustration by Steven Hickman
Cover design by Carol Russo Design
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and
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people or incidents is purely coincidental.
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