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Title: Man Kzin Wars VIII by Niven ISBN: 0-671-87888-3 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best yet!
Comment: Man-Kzin Wars VII was great, but this is the best so far! Fast moving action, good science. "Telepath's Dance", the longest story, is a classic retelling of "Beauty and the Beast", the Ripley-Alien situation but far stronger. Hints of a rebellion by Telepaths and a remnant of intelligent Kzinretts. Elderly Kzin Admiral almost understands the human secret but just misses the point about them. Good characterisation, laser-battles in space, hints of a developing Man-Kzin empathy. Who could ask for more? All the authors are good and all credit to Larry Niven's masterly control of the series.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another Great Niven Book
Comment: The latest book in the Man-Kzin War series Choosing Names: Man-Kzin 8 is a great book. This book is a collection of short stories, showing th difficult, and intriging life of a Kzinti Telepath. The book also involves humans trying to escape from the Kzin and how they deal with the Telepaths. I found this novel to be exciting, full of neat info on the early days of the first Man-Kzin war and the life of Kzin Telepaths. I also found that I couldn't put the book down, I had to keep reading it to see what happened to the characters next.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent addition to the series.
Comment: For those unfamiliar with the Man-Kzin Wars series, or Kzinti in general, the Kzin are an alien race created by Larry Niven, a spacefaring race evolved from carnivorous hunting cats instead of omnivorous monkeys. They mass about 500 pounds and are about 8 feet tall, and are about as dangerous hand-to hand as a jaguar would be. Their culture is a warrior culture, with no respect or tolerance for pacifistic philosophy. The only thing that keeps them from completely subjugating humanity is their tendancy to be overconfident and unsubtle. (Subtlety, to their warrior mentality, is dishonorable, and fortunately for the humans, most Kzinti buy into the old death-before-dishonor concept.)
This series is a series of collections of short-to-mid length stories, mostly written by authors other than Niven, based in the world he created and about the conflicts between humans and Kzin. This book is one of the best of the lot, although the writing itself in the second story, "Telepath's Dance" by Hal Colebatch, (a story with some interesting concepts) was sloppy and error-filled. Given that this was true of none of the other stories in the collection, I must attribute it to the author, rather than to poor copyediting, although I suppose good copyediting might have prevented the errors from making it into the final product.
Although this is the eighth book of the series, it would be perfectly reasonable for someone who's read none of the other books in the series to start with this one, as all of the stories are set early in the hostory of the conflicts, including one that occurs long before humanity ever met Kzinti, the only such story in the entire eight-book series.
As other reviewers have pointed out, Kzinti telepaths play at least a small part in all five stories, and a large part in four of them.
The stories were all interesting, and all but the second were well-written. Definitely worth reading.
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Title: Man-Kzin Wars IX by Larry Niven ISBN: 0743471458 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: MAN-KZIN WARS VII : MAN-KZIN WARS VII by Larry Niven ISBN: 0671876708 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: MAN-KZIN WARS VI : MAN-KZIN WARS VI by Niven ISBN: 0671876074 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Man Kzin Wars V by Niven ISBN: 0671721372 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Best of All Possible Wars by Niven ISBN: 0671878794 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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