Man-Kzin Wars Series by Larry Niven
Man-Kzin Wars #1
The Man-Kzin Wars 01 mw-1
Larry Niven
LARRY NIVEN'S KNOWN SPACE IS AFLAME WITH WAR! Once upon a time, in the very earliest days of interplanetary exploration, an unarmed human vessel was set upon by a warship from the planet Kzin -- home of the fiercest warriors in Known Space. This was a fatal mistake for the Kzinti, of course; they learned the hard way that the reason humanity had decided to study war no more was that humans were so very, very good at it. And thus began THE MAN-KZIN WARS. Now, several centuries later, the Kzinti are about to get yet another lesson in why it pays to be polite to those hairless monkeys from planet Earth.
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Man-Kzin Wars #1
The Man-Kzin Wars 01
Larry Niven
SUMMARY:
LARRY NIVEN'S KNOWN SPACE IS AFLAME WITH WAR!Once upon a time, in the very earliest days of interplanetary exploration, an unarmed human vessel was set upon by a warship from the planet Kzin -- home of the fiercest warriors in Known Space. This was a fatal mistake for the Kzinti, of course; they learned the hard way that the reason humanity had decided to study war no more was that humans were so very, very good at it.And thus began THE MAN-KZIN WARS. Now, several centuries later, the Kzinti are about to get yet another lesson in why it pays to be polite to those hairless monkeys from planet Earth.
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Man-Kzin Wars #1
Man-Kzin Wars #2
The Man-Kzin Wars 02
Larry Niven
EDITORIAL REVIEW:
The alien Kzinti had almost conquered the humans, but after the initial surprise, the humans fought back with a ferocity the Kzinti had never faced. But that was centuries ago, and the humiliation of lost battles has not faded. The Kzinti are back . . . and spoiling for a fight! Includes stories by Larry Niven, Dean Ing, Jerry Pournelle and S.M.
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Man-Kzin Wars #3
Man-Kzin Wars III
Larry Niven
Those
war-crazed fur-balls from the planet Kzin just won’t give up, even though the
canny pseudo-pacifists from Planet Earth cut through the Kzinti like a laser
through catmeat (once the humans rediscovered old technologies and old
instincts that never quite bred out). The ferocious Kzinti never seemed to be
able to come up with a more complicated strategy than “Scream and Leap.”
But after three hard-fought
wars, a few of the powerful pussycats have learned from their foes. Now, they
are ready, and all that stands
between freedom and a feline-filled universe is the human race. Good luck,
monkey-boys.
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Man-Kzin Wars #3
The Man-Kzin Wars 03 mw-3
Larry Niven
The Mind Slavers are back--and only the cat-like Kzinti can save mankind now. This volume includes all-new tales of Larry Niven's Known Space--including one by Niven himself. Another blockbuster in the ongoing chronicle of humanity's greatest war.
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Man-Kzin Wars #3
The Man-Kzin Wars 03
Larry Niven
SUMMARY:
The Mind Slavers are back--and only the cat-like Kzinti can save mankind now. This volume includes all-new tales of Larry Niven's Known Space--including one by Niven himself. Another blockbuster in the ongoing chronicle of humanity's greatest war.
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Man-Kzin Wars #4
Man-Kzin Wars IV
Larry Niven
The Man-Kzin wars is a series of military science fiction short stories. It was created by Larry Niven and set in his Known Space universe. Niven himself wrote only a few stories but with a large demand for more stories, he allowed the Man-Kzin Wars to become a shared universe, starting with the the release of 1988 release of The Man-Kzin Wars.
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Man-Kzin Wars #4
The Man-Kzin Wars 04
Larry Niven
SUMMARY:
The war for human survival continues against the felinoid invaders from the planet Kzin
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Man-Kzin Wars #5
The Man-Kzin Wars 05
Larry Niven
SUMMARY:
After losing three significant battles to the humans, the Kzin begin to wonder if their combative diplomatic style is working and decide to reevaluate their strategy, in a volume featuring contributions by Larry, Niven, S. M. Stirling, Thomas T. Thomas, and Jerry Pournelle. Reissue.
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Man-Kzin Wars #6
The Man-Kzin Wars 06
Larry Niven
SUMMARY:
Three short novels by Donald Kingsbury, Mark O. Martin, and Gregory Benford chronicle the continuing battle for supremacy between the humans of Earth and the lethal felines of Kzin. Original.
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Man-Kzin Wars #7
The Man-Kzin Wars 07
Larry Niven
SUMMARY:
Bruno was the most stable linker, but linkers always went catatonic after a certain amount of time connected to high level computers. Bruno knew intellectually that he had to minimize link time. But with the link he was so much more--he could see all. He could extract all possible effectiveness from his ship and maybe save himself and his love from a horrible fate.
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Man-Kzin Wars #8
Choosing Names: Man-Kzin Wars VIII
Larry Niven
LARRY NIVEN’S KNOWN SPACE IS AFLAME WITH WAR!Once upon a time, in the very earliest days of
interplanetary exploration, an unarmed human
vessel was set upon by a warship from the
planet Kzin—home of the fiercest warriors in
Known Space. This was a fatal mistake for the
Kzinti, of course; they learned the hard way that
the reason humanity had decided to study war
no more was that humans were so very, very
good at it.And thus began THE MAN-KZIN WARS. Now,
several centuries later, the Kzinti are about to
get yet another lesson in why it pays to be polite
to those hairless monkeys from planet Earth.
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Man-Kzin Wars #8
Choosing Names mw-8
Larry Niven
Traces the earliest days of the first Man-Kzin War, during which humans foil the huge feline warriors' attempt to turn them into slaves by enslaving them instead, until one of the cats turns out to be gifted with mental telepathy.
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Man-Kzin Wars #8
The Man-Kzin Wars 08 - Choosing Names
Larry Niven
SUMMARY:
In a new story, Larry Niven tells of the earliest days of the first Man-Kzin War. The surviving Kzin have been caged and are being studied. The monkey-boys have told them that their war is over. Incomprehensible to the Kzin, for whom no war is ever over. The humans are sure that the huge warcats cannot escape their prison--but they shouldn't make such bold assumptions.
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Man-Kzin Wars #9
The Man-Kzin Wars 09
Larry Niven
SUMMARY:
The Kzin are warcats supreme, bringing the galaxy under feline dominion. Then the pesky humans come along to cut the dauntless Heroes to ribbons. Includes contributions by Poul Anderson, Paul Chafe, and Hall Colebatch.
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Man-Kzin Wars #10
The Man-Kzin Wars 10 - The Wunder War
Larry Niven
SUMMARY:
The first colonists from Earth named the planet Wunderland. Generations later, the felinoid alien invaders called Kzin came and turned it into a hell for humans. Touched on in other accounts of the Man-Kzin wars, here for the first time is the decades-long saga of Wunderland: how the Wunderlanders first learned of the Kzin attacks on Earth by slower-than-light communications, barely in time to prepare to fight back. How the valiant human defenders turned to guerilla warfare in the Wunderland jungles and caves after the feline warrior race had destroyed or seized the cities. How, after the war ended in an ignominous defeat for the Kzin, some humans and Kzin worked for good will between the two species-their work complicated by humans wanting revenge and Kzin who still saw humans as a somewhat annoying food source. And how a human-Kzin team was sent to investigate a mysterious asteroid and found a threat not only to both species, but to the entire galaxy. The humans wanted to destroy it, but the Kzin wanted to exploit it, and the only hope was a Kzin telepath raised by humans from a cub. Which side would he choose, monkey or warcat?
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Man-Kzin Wars #11
The Man-Kzin Wars 11
Larry Niven
SUMMARY:
The Kzin were the mightiest warriors in the galaxy, which they were wasting no time in conquering, one star system at a time. Then those feline lords of creation ran into those ridiculous weed-eating pacifistic apes who called themselves humans. And the catlike Kzin found they had their collective tail caught in a meat grinder. When the mighty Kzin moved in to take over the monkey-infested 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. And then those underhanded humans gained a faster-than-light drive, and no amount of screaming and leaping could keep the Kzin from losing their first war in centuries of successful conquest. But you can't keep a good warcat down, and the Kzin have by no means given up. New weapons, new strategies, and new leaders. Here they come again and those monkey-boys from Earth had better watch their backs. Once again, it's howling time in Known Space!
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Man-Kzin Wars #12
