The Man-Kzin Wars

by Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, Dean Ing

Book Overview

After an unarmed human vessel from the earliest days of the planet's space exploration is attacked by the violent Kzin, the feline warrior race learns a surprising lesson from the vengeful human race.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671720767
• ISBN13: 9780671720766
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Baen
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Good start to a great series

There are now 11 volumes of Kzin stories; some of the stories are much better than others, but most are just good satisfying SF.

Revisiting the First Chapter

This is a reissue of the first short-story incursion into this world by Larry Niven, complete with a retrospective introduction, in which Larry reflects on how much his "universe" has grown in detail and characterization since that story first saw the light of day. Still thoroughly enjoyable, with believable characters on both sides of the species divide. Coupled with the original Niven story are two more stories, contrubutions to the genre by Poul Anderson and Dean Ing, two master craftsmen of the Sci-Fi art. A thoroughly enjoyable trip to alternate reality.

Excellent!

If you like Sci-Fi and you like Space, then You've GOT to read Larry Niven's Man Kzin books. He's gotten together with scientists and over 20 writers and created a so-fi world unlike any that's ever been created. His sci-fi world will continue perpetuating itself long after he's gone because many young writers have bought into his sci-fi version of space as well as MANY older well established ones.

Start of a neverending story...

Watch out monkey boys! This is the first book of a still growing series. Short stories, many of them linked by events or characters, showing the Man-Kzin Wars, how they started and who won them. A lot of the stories also deal with the Kzin alone, as many of the later stories DO show how the Kzin became a space-traveling race of warriors. Many of the shorts have been collected into full novels. Get the whole series. Some stories you can't help but read again and again, yet a few I can't re-read because I feel pity or even pain at some of the endings. Remember, the stories are about war and some of the author's hold nothing back, with very realistic plots and battle scenes.

Man Kzin Wars are the best description of The Kzinti race!

After reading a story about the kzin in another book i was compelled to read the Man Kzin Wars to learn more about The Kzinti. I've now read the first six of the seven. I must say i love it! I really like reading about Known Space and I don't mind other authours mingling in with the great Larry Niven. They do a good job. I can recommend these books because they give a very good background about the kzin, but also a very good description of humanity in Known Space. It took me only 2 weeks to read teh first six Man Kzin Wars books