Welcome to the hottest pocket in Larry Niven’s Known Space: the time of the assault on pacifist humanity by berserker felinoids from the planet Kzin. This time humanity’s representatives to the Warrior Race are Donald Kingsbury, Greg Bear, and Steve Stirling. As is traditional in this war for species survival, in all cases “monkey cleverness” (i.e., human cunning) is more than a match for felinoid ferocity. But as is also traditional, victory never comes cheap to those out on the sharp edge of The Man-Kzin Wars.
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I stilll really like this series!Liking this book was a bit of a surprise for me. For the past year or more, I've had a hard time reading any hard sf, military sf or serious mysteries. I guess you could call this military SF, of a sort. But I guess the Man-Kzin Wars series is just such an old favorite series, that I read it straight through.
This book is two shorter works combined:
The Survivor by Donald Kingsbury
This novella is written from the perspective of that rarest of creatures – a cowardly Kzin. It's also one in which the famous monkey-smart does the humans no good at all. In the introduction, Larry Niven describes this as a horror story, and it might be to you. For me, it wasn't scary at all. I guess I've read too many stories in this series that didn't work out well for the humans.
The Man Who Would Be Kzin by Greg Bear and S.M. Sterling
A short story mostly from the perspective of a human telepath. He's so good, that he can make even Kzins see him as he wants to be seen. He ends up taking this a bit too far.
I enjoyed both of these stories, but then, I have enjoyed this whole series.
I know this is not a new book. It was published in 1991, but somehow I'd missed it until now.Posted on
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