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THE MAN-KZIN WARS I

Larry Niven

with

Poul Anderson

and

Dean Ing

THE MAN-KZIN WARS

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in

this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or

incidents is purely coincidental.

portions thereof in any form.

A Baen Books Original

Baen Publishing Enterprises

260 Fifth Avenue

New York, NX 10001

First printing, June 1988

Second printing, July 1988

Third printing, December 1988

Fourth printing, August 1989

Fifth printing, December 1989

ISBN: 0-671-65411-X

Cover art by Steve Hickman

Printed in the United States of America

Distributed by

SIMON & SCHUSTER

1230 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NX 10020

CONTENTS

Introduction, Larry Niven 1

THE WARRIORS, Larry Niven 5

IRON, Poul Anderson 27

CATHOUSE, Dean Ing 179

Introduction

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"The Warriors" wasn't just the first tale of the kzinti. It was the first

story I ever offered for sale. I was daydreaming in math class, as usual,

and I realized that I'd shaped a complete story. So I wrote it down, and

bought some magazines to get the editorial addresses, and started it

circulating.

It was years before anyone bought it. By then I'd rewritten it countless

times, trying out what I was learning from my correspondence writing

course. Fred Pohl (editor of Galaxy and Worlds of If in those days) saw it

often enough that he eventually wrote, "I think this can be improved . . .

but maybe you're tired of reworking it, so I'll buy it as is . It was

probably his title, too.

The kzinti look a little blurred here, don't they? I mean, if you've known

them elsewhere. Subsequently they changed in several ways.

I learned to answer John W. Campbell's challenge: "Show me something that

thinks as well as a man, or better, but not like a man." The kzinti took on

more detail, gained greater consistency and lost some of

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their resemblance to humanity. They were born as one of a thousand catlike

aliens in science fiction. As I learned how to make an alien from basic

principles, body and mind and soul, the kzinti became more themselves.

At the same time they were changing in another way, evolving over several

centuries. The Man-Kzin Wars changed them far more than they changed

mankind, because the wars killed off the least intelligent and most

aggressive.

This book was conceived in a casual encounter.

Marilyn and I were driving to a Nebula Awards banquet with Jim Baen in the

back seat. She drove, we talked ...

I knew about franchise universes. Jim and I had edited The Magic May Return

and More Magic, tales set in the Magic Goes Away universe but written by

friends whom we had invited in. I had played in neighbors' playgrounds,

too. "A Snowflake Falls" used Saberhagen's "Berserkers," by invitation. I'd

written a tale set at Lord Dunsany's "edge of the world," and a report on

the year the Necronomicon hit the college campuses in paperback, and a

study of Superman's fertility problems.

I've never been in a war, nor in any of the armed forces. Wars have

happened and may happen again in most of my series universes, including

known space, but you'll never see them. I lack the experience. Here are a

couple of centuries of known space that are dark to me.

By the time we parked, Jim and I had agreed to open up the Man-Kzin Wars

period of known space.

Any writer good enough to be invited to play in my universe will have

demonstrated that he can make his own. Would anyone accept my offer? I

worried

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