Man-Kzin Wars Series by Larry Niven, Greg Bear, Jerry Pournelle, S.M. Stirling, Hal G.P. Colebatch, Matthew Harrington, Dean Ing, Jean Lamb, Paul Chafe, Warren W. James, Gregory Benford, Mark O. Martin, Poul Anderson, Donald Kingsbury, Thomas T. Thomas, S.M. Sterling

3.80 · 171 ratings
  • The Man-Kzin Wars (Man-Kzin Wars #1)
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    The Man-Kzin Wars (Man-Kzin Wars #1)

    Larry Niven, Dean Ing, Poul Anderson

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings · published 1988

    Once upon a time, in the earliest days of interplanetary exploration, an unarmed human vessel was set upon by a warship from the planet Kzin. But the Kzinti learned the hard way that the reason humanity had given up war was that they were so very, very good at it. Thus began the Man-Kzin Wars.Contents:1 · Introduction · Larry Niven · in * 5 · The Warriors · Larry Niven · ss If Feb ’66 27 · Iron [Part 1 of 2] · Poul Anderson · n. Far Frontiers Vol. VII, ed... more

  • The Man-Kzin Wars II (Man-Kzin Wars #2)
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    The Man-Kzin Wars II (Man-Kzin Wars #2)

    Larry Niven, Dean Ing, Jerry Pournelle, S.M. Stirling

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1989

    Born and bred to hunting, they had never encountered a species they couldn't treat as prey - until they met the canny pseudo-pacifists from Planet Earth. They nearly overwhelmed humanity on first contact, but fast as you can say "Ghengis Khan" or "Alexander the Great" the seemingly harmless monkey boys were all over the pussycats like ugly on an ape, with space fleets and strategic thinking that left the Warrior Race quite dazzled.But that was then and this is now... more

  • Man-Kzin Wars 3 (Man-Kzin Wars #3)
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    Man-Kzin Wars 3 (Man-Kzin Wars #3)

    Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, S.M. Sterling, Poul Anderson

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1990

    IT'S HOWLING TIME IN KNOWN SPACEThose 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... more

  • Man-Kzin Wars IV (Man-Kzin Wars #4)
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    Man-Kzin Wars IV (Man-Kzin Wars #4)

    Larry Niven, Greg Bear, Donald Kingsbury, S.M. Stirling

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1991

    A WINNING TRADITION...Welcome to the hottest pocket in Larry Niven's Known Space: the time of the assault on pacifist humanity by berserker felinoids from the planet Kzin. This time humanity's representatives to the Warrior Race are Donald Kingsbury, Greg Bear, and Steve Stirling. As in traditional in this war for species survival, in all cases "monkey cleverness" (i.e. human cunning) is more than a match for felinoid ferocity... more

  • Man-Kzin Wars V (Man-Kzin Wars #5)
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    Man-Kzin Wars V (Man-Kzin Wars #5)

    Larry Niven, S.M. Stirling, Thomas T. Thomas, Jerry Pournelle

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1992

    Between wars, an odd assortment of human and Kzin characters search for a hidden treasure -- which is not what it seems. Elsewhere, Kzin and humans seek a weapon too horrible to use...

  • Man-Kzin Wars VI (Man-Kzin Wars #6)
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    Man-Kzin Wars VI (Man-Kzin Wars #6)

    Larry Niven, Donald Kingsbury, Gregory Benford, Mark O. Martin

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 1994

    JUMP QUICK, MONKEY BOYAfter two unpleasant defeats at the hands of the humans from Earth - those rotten no good, sneaky monkeys with tools - the Kzin Third Fleet has decided a change of strategy is in order. Not scream and leap, but the more subtle and ultimately more satisfying (because it might work!) feint and pounce. The man-killing cats from Kzin are baaack.Only luck or the Outsiders can save us now...Cover illustration: Stephen Hickman

  • Man-Kzin Wars 7 (Man-Kzin Wars #7)
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    Man-Kzin Wars 7 (Man-Kzin Wars #7)

    Larry Niven, Gregory Benford, Mark O. Martin, Hal G.P. Colebatch, Paul Chafe

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1995

    The man-killing cats from Kzin are back in short novels by Gregory Benford, Mark O. Martin, Hal Colebatch & Paul Chafe. The Kzin Third Fleet has decided a change of strategy is in order after two unpleasant defeats at the hands of the humans (or "monkeys") from Earth. Only luck or the Outsiders can save us now. . . . A DARKER GEOMETRYBruno was the most stable linker that Col... more

  • Choosing Names (Man-Kzin Wars #8)
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    Choosing Names (Man-Kzin Wars #8)

    Larry Niven, Hal G.P. Colebatch, Jean Lamb, Paul Chafe, Warren W. James

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1998

    ROUND EIGHT, MONKEY BOYS!In a new story, Larry Niven tells of the earliest days of the first Man-Kzin War.The Kzin had learned of the existance of human-occupied space, a find that promised new technolgies for the race, and new wealth for the fierce Kzin Warriors in the form of land, slaves...and food. Kzin had sent ships to probe the Solar System, expecting no danger from mere weed-eating apes... more

  • Man-Kzin Wars 9 (Man-Kzin Wars #9)
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    Man-Kzin Wars 9 (Man-Kzin Wars #9)

    Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Paul Chafe, Hal G.P. Colebatch

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2001

    THOSE KZIN DON'T KNOW WHEN THEY'RE LICKED (AND MAYBE THEY AREN'T...)It was so unfair! Here the Kzin were, warcats supreme, carving out empires like the idefatigable lords of creation that they were - and then they ran into those pesky humans. Mere apes! Contemptible weed-eaters! Hardly worth the screaming and leaping upon...But when the feline Kzin moved in to take over the monkey-occupied worlds, they got clobbered... more

  • Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War (Man-Kzin Wars #10)
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    Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War (Man-Kzin Wars #10)

    Hal G.P. Colebatch, Larry Niven

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2003

    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... more

  • Man-Kzin Wars 11 (Man-Kzin Wars #11)
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    Man-Kzin Wars 11 (Man-Kzin Wars #11)

    Larry Niven, Hal G.P. Colebatch, Matthew Harrington

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2005

    The warrior-race Kzin is wasting no time in conquering the galaxy one star system at a time. But soon, they run into those ridiculous, weed-eating, pacifistic apes who called themselves humans.

  • Destiny's Forge (Man-Kzin Wars #11.5)
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    Destiny's Forge (Man-Kzin Wars #11.5)

    Paul Chafe, Larry Niven

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2006

    Weed-eaters, monkey-spawn, honourless herbivores, individually weak, humans have proved most difficult to conquer and enslave. Now, the young heir to the Kzinti patriarchy is forced into a desperate wilderness exile as his empire cracks and the contentious Great Prides attempt to rip one another apart while facing war with humanity.

  • Man-Kzin Wars 12 (Man-Kzin Wars #12)
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    Man-Kzin Wars 12 (Man-Kzin Wars #12)

    Larry Niven

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2009

    New weapons, new strategies and new leaders - the Kzin are on the march and the humans had better watch out. Once again, it's howling time in Known Space.

  • Man-Kzin Wars XIII (Man-Kzin Wars #13)
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    Man-Kzin Wars XIII (Man-Kzin Wars #13)

    Larry Niven

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2012

    Larry Niven’s bestselling Man-Kzin series continues! The kzin, formerly invincible conquerors of all they encountered, had a hard time dealing with their ignominious defeat by the leaf-eating humans. Some secretly hatched schemes for a rematch, others concentrated on gathering power within the kzin hierarchy, and some shamefully cooperated with the contemptible humans, though often for hidden motives... more

  • Man-Kzin Wars XIV (Man-Kzin Wars #14)
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    Man-Kzin Wars XIV (Man-Kzin Wars #14)

    Larry Niven

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2013

    The perennially best-selling series set in Larry Niven’s Man-Kzin universe continues with entry #14 including hard-hitting and thought-inducing tales from a host of talented contributors Hal Colebatch, Matthew Joseph Harrington, Alex Hernandez, Jessica Q. Fox, and more. The catlike alien Kzin, formerly invincible conquerors of all they encountered, must learn to compromise with humans if they wish to survive and prosper once again as a species... more

  • Man-Kzin Wars XV (Man-Kzin Wars #15)
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    Man-Kzin Wars XV (Man-Kzin Wars #15)

    Larry Niven

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2019

    THE POPULAR MAN-KZIN WARS SERIES ROARS BACK INTO ACTION! New stories of the war between humanity and the catlike Kzin from Brad R. Torgersen, Brendan DuBois, Martin L. Shoemaker, and more! The predatory catlike warrior race known as the Kzin never had a hard time dealing with all those they encountered, conquering alien worlds with little effort. That is until they came face to face with the leaf-eaters known as humans... more

  • The Best of All Possible Wars (Man-Kzin Wars #best of)
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    The Best of All Possible Wars (Man-Kzin Wars #best of)

    Larry Niven, Greg Bear, Jerry Pournelle, S.M. Stirling

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 1998

    Invasion seemed like a good idea at the time, but the catlike Kzin should have been polite to those apes from Earth. Humans know that there's more than one way to skin a cat -- even a Kzin.A collection of favorite stories from the first five volumes of the Maz-Kzin Wars series.

  • The House of the Kzinti (Man-Kzin Wars #compiles Cathouse and Children's)
    #compiles Cathouse and Children's

    The House of the Kzinti (Man-Kzin Wars #compiles Cathouse and Children's)

    Jerry Pournelle, Dean Ing, S.M. Stirling

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2002

    While one Kzin commander tries to stop the war between the powerful felinoid warriors from the planet Kzin and the weak leaf-eating monkey-boys from Earth, Carroll Locklear, stranded on a world with prehistoric Kzinti, must race against time to discover a way to survive, in a volume containing the

  • Inconstant Star (Man-Kzin Wars #compiles material from 1 and 3)
    #compiles material from 1 and 3

    Inconstant Star (Man-Kzin Wars #compiles material from 1 and 3)

    Poul Anderson

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 1990

    A fixup of Kzinti stories written by Poul Anderson and set (with permission) in Larry Niven's Known Space universe.

  • The Children's Hour (Man-Kzin Wars #compiles material from 2 and 3)
    #compiles material from 2 and 3

    The Children's Hour (Man-Kzin Wars #compiles material from 2 and 3)

    Jerry Pournelle

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 1991

    The fastest way to get ahead in Kzin society is to cut through the endless challenges and duels to the death--and take on your father. But Chuut-Riit, Planetary Governor of occupied planet Wunderland, is teaching his kits a new way--the way of the humans. And the humans don't like it, at all. Expanded from parts of Man-Kzin Wars II and Man-Kzin Wars III.

  • Cathouse (Man-Kzin Wars #complies material from 1 and 2)
    #complies material from 1 and 2

    Cathouse (Man-Kzin Wars #complies material from 1 and 2)

    Dean Ing

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 1990

    Carroll Locklear was up to his ears in Kzinti. He hadn't planned it tht way; what sane human would want to be trapped cheek by furry jowl with a bunch of homicidal bearcats? But when he was taken prisoner, somehow the subject of Locklear's likes and dislikes never came up, and now he finds himself stranded on a planet of prehistoric Kzinti. To survive, he must find common cause, if not with the males, then with the females of that antique species...

  • A Darker Geometry (Man-Kzin Wars #contains some material from 7)
    #contains some material from 7

    A Darker Geometry (Man-Kzin Wars #contains some material from 7)

    Larry Niven, Mark O. Martin, Gregory Benford

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 1996

    At the heart of Known Space lies mystery: How did so anarchic and violent a species as the Kzin ever learn to cooperate sufficiently to develop the technology to conquer an interstellar empire? The answer to this and other questions have been hinted at before, but now Gregory Benford, a renowned high-energy physicist, and molecular biologist Mark O. Martin bring their formidable talents and extraordinarily broad range of expertise to bear on all the mysteries of Known Space.

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