Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 352 pages
- Published by: Baen July 22, 2003
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0743436199
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0743436199
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Book Dimensions:
9.5 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
- Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Product Description
Key Selling Points- Larry Niven makes everybody's "Top Ten" list of science fiction writers, for popularity and sales, with a string of
New York Times best sellers, both solo and in collaboration with Jerry Pournelle.- Hal Colebatch has had many stories in previous volumes of the Man-Kzin Wars series. His recent book, Blair's Britain, was selected by the London Spectator's Taki as a book of the year. He has also written mainstream fiction, biographies, plays, poetry, and several hundred articles.- This series is one of the most successful ever. The perennially best-selling first volume has been through twelve printings since 1988.- Niven's "Known Space" series, including the Man-Kzin Wars series, and the award-winning Ringworld novels, may be the most popular series in science fiction.
About The Author
Larry Niven has authored many
New York Times bestsellers, both alone (
The Integral Trees , The Smoke Ring, The Ringworld Throne) and in collaboration with Jerry Pournelle (
The Mote in God's Eye, Lucifer's Hammer, Footfall). His Known Space series, from which the magnificently successful Man-Kzin Wars books derive, is a landmark of modern science fiction, as popular as Heinlein's Future History series and Asimov's 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. His latest novels are
Rainbow Mars (Tor) and
The Burning City, with Jerry Pournelle (Pocket).
Hal Colebatch has had stories in previous volumes of the Man-Kzin Wars series. His recent book,
Blair's Britain, was selected by the
London Spectator's Taki as a book of the year. He has also 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 practices law in a suburb of Perth, Australia, where he lives with his wife and two stepchildren.
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Reader ReviewsThese four stories - adding up to about 140,000 words - mainly about the first Man-Kzin war and the Kzin conquest and decades-long occupation of the peaceful human colony world of Wunderland and what it does to the humans and kzin concerned - are teriffic. "One War for Wunderland", the first and longest, is the "War and Peace" of the series, with something that's not been wrtiiten about earlier - a big Man-Kzin set-piece battle. The story is narrated by Nils Rykermann, a biologist, who features also is two of the other stories. "The Corporal in the Caves" is set years later, with the Kzin rooting out the human resistance in the great caves of Wunderland. Like one or two scenes in "One War for Wunderland", the last word in this one, when I read it and realised what had actually happened, moved me to tears, the first time a book has one that for a long while. "Music Box" is set near the end of the war. There is also a cross-conflict between the humans and kzin who want peace and those on both sides who want the war fought to the bitter end. Also some humans -and kzin - are beginning to change sides. There is a good bit of humor in this one too, as when a terrible-looking but actually relatively kindly old Kzin warrior, Raargh, wakes up a sleeping woman to whom he must deliver a message and to spare her modesty as she wakes and sits up tells her: "No need to cover teets. Raargh has seen before." The last scene is quite hilarious and a relief from a lot of the tension and tragedy earlier. These are real characters whose fates you care about. "Peter Robinson" is set many years later, in the time of Ringworld, and is a sort of Gothic horror-story in space. Incidentally, "His Sergeant's Honour" in Man-Kzin IX, seems to occurr between the first two and the last two stories in this volume, which are otherwise in chronological order. I'm really drawn into the saga now and can't wait to see what happens next!
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