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Title: Man-Kzin Wars IX by Larry Niven ISBN: 0-7434-7145-8 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A correction to the previous reviewer's ethics!
Comment: I have reviewed this book previously but am having a second bite because I am annoyed by the conduct of the previous reviewer. He claims, apparently trying to dam the dialogue, there is a phrase: "As you known, Raargh Sergeant, we Wunderkzin ..." No such phrase occurs in the book. A human says to a Kzin born on Wunderland "We sometimes call you Wunderkzin ..." I suggest that if the reviewer wishes to pick holes in the style of a particular story he quote the actual words he complains of and not something he has invented. I believe this is related to a thing called ethics, you know, like honesty and truthfulness.
And all thes stories in the book are teriffic! Scream and Leap!
Rating: 3
Summary: Worth a look for two good stories.
Comment: __________________________________________
This addition to the long-running Man-Kzin sharecrop series is
worth your attention for two stories: Niven's Own "Fly-by-Night", which
is pretty good, but had an uncredited earlier appearance in (IB)
Asimov's. And newish author Paul Chafe, whose "Windows of the Soul" is
the best of the book, and the one that makes MK-IX worth looking for,
even if you've already seen the Niven. "Windows" starts out as an ARM
police-procedural on Tiamat station, after the brutal murder and
dismemberment of Miranda Holtzman, a 19 year-old student engineer. ARM
Captain Joel Allson develops a hot romance during the investigation --
which veers off into a disturbing political-terrorist operation, and
finishes with a truly nasty twist. Nice. Chafe's had a couple of
previous (unmemorable) appearances (in MK-VII & VIII).
The other two stories are a Poul Anderson novella ("Pele"), set aside
after a slow, dull start, and "His Sergeant's Honor" by Hal Colebatch,
which reads like a novel outline. For a bad, dull novel: "As you know,
Raargh-Sergeant, we Wunderkzin..."
Did I mention the Lurid Baen Cover...? It's Howling Time!
Conclusion: one of the weaker of the Man-Kzin books, but the Chafe is
first-rate entertainment.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not one of the better books in this series
Comment: I've thoroughly enjoyed the other books in this series, so it was all the more disappointing that the stories in this volume weren't more entertaining. The first story, Pele, about a competition between human and kzinti science teams investigating a stellar phenonenon was the weakest and least interesting. The second, His Sergeant's Honor, was the best. The third story, Windows of the World, was a whodunit. Technically, it qualifies as a Man-Kzin story, but it's substanitively a story about humans. The roles played by the Kzin could easily have been written out of the story without much loss. Finally, the fourth story, Fly-By-Night, was written by Larry Niven. It was pretty good, but by no means one of his best.
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Title: Man Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War by Hal Colebatch, Larry Niven ISBN: 0743436199 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Man Kzin Wars VIII by Niven ISBN: 0671878883 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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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 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 V by Niven ISBN: 0671721372 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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