Man-Kzin Wars

# The Man-Kzin Wars ( 1988 )

# Man-Kzin Wars II ( 1989 )

# Man-Kzin Wars III ( 1990 )

# Man-Kzin Wars IV ( 1991 )

# Man-Kzin Wars V ( 1992 )

# Man-Kzin Wars VI ( 1994 )

# Man-Kzin Wars VII ( 1995 )

# Man-Kzin Wars VIII: Choosing Names ( 1998 )

#* The Best of All Possible Wars: The Best of the Man-Kzin Wars ( 1998 )

# Man-Kzin Wars IX ( 2002 )

# Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War ( 2003 )

# Man-Kzin Wars XI ( 2005 )

# Man-Kzin Wars XII ( 2009 )

# Man-Kzin Wars XIII ( 2012 )

# The Children's Hour: A Novel of the Man-Kzin Wars ( 1991, with Jerry Pournelle and S. M. Stirling )

# Destiny's Forge: A Man-Kzin Wars Novel ( 2007, with Paul Chafe )

It has also in part been used as a shared universe in the Man-Kzin Wars spin-off anthologies sub-series.

In the late 1980s, Niven opened up this gap in the known space timeline as a shared universe, and the stories of the Man-Kzin Wars volumes fill in that history, bridging the two settings.

: Niven himself wrote little about the Man-Kzin Wars, although many of his stories refer to them having taken place in the past.

The Man-Kzin Wars short-story collections were primarily written by other authors.

At one time found on every Thrint estate throughout the Thrintun empire, the only known survivors in Known Space are on the planet Jinx, though they are later found on the Ringworld and on a forested planet called Beanstalk ( in the Man-Kzin Wars story " Hey Diddle Diddle ").

The attack by the Wunderland Treatymaker is detailed as a part of Destiny's Forge by Paul Chafe, a part of the Man-Kzin Wars shared universe.

It appears as a crucial plot device in The Children's Hour, a Man-Kzin Wars novel by Jerry Pournelle and S. M.

* Briar Patch ( novel ), a 1989 short novel by Dean Ing, in the Man-Kzin Wars series

Like most of the Man-Kzin Wars short stories, its canonicity is unknown.

The story is partially told in the novella World of Ptavvs and the story Peter Robinson from the book Man-Kzin Wars X.

An example of this is the granting of a full name to Trainer-of-Slaves, who single-handedly delivered a fully working hyperdrive to the Patriarchy in the novella " The Heroic Myth of Lieutenant Nora Argamentine " by Donald Kingsbury ( appearing in Man-Kzin Wars VI, 1994 ), thus earning the full name Graaf-Nig.

The Man-Kzin Wars books, conversely, have it entirely covered by a world ocean, with groves of sunflowers growing up from the bottom of the ocean.

As with most Man-Kzin Wars material, its canonicity has not been confirmed by Niven.

A recent Man-Kzin Wars short story-" Teacher's Pet " by Matthew Joseph Harrington, in Man-Kzin Wars XI-claimed that the Tnuctipun are responsible for creating the Pak Protectors.

Several of the stories of the Man-Kzin Wars depict the nearest Human colony at Alpha Centauri, called Wunderland, which was occupied by the Kzinti for over 50 years.

The first Man-Kzin War ended when the humans obtained the faster-than-light drive ( FTL ) from the Outsiders, after which the Kzinti ships stood no chance against the FTL warships.

" It was captured by humans during the Man-Kzin Wars.

Faster Than Light ( FTL ) propulsion, or hyperdrive, was obtained from the Outsiders at the end of the First Man-Kzin War.

These interventions begin following the Man-Kzin Wars and the introduction of hyperdrive, presumably as part of a general re-integration of human societies.

However, Niven later invited other authors to participate in a series of shared-universe novels, with the Man-Kzin Wars as their setting.

Information from the RPG, along with notes composed by RPG author Hewitt with Niven, were later used to form the " Bible " given to authors writing in the Man-Kzin Wars series.

For example, Larry Niven's fictional universe Known Space has an approximately 135 year period in which Niven allows other authors to write stories about the Man-Kzin Wars.

The Man-Kzin Wars short story Teacher's Pet claims that Pak Protectors, progenitors of the human race, evolved on one such planet after plant life had started and that the Thrintun self-destructed before the Bandersnatchi were installed.

Kzinti on the cover of Man-Kzin Wars # The stories | Man-Kzin Wars III.

Following this, Niven gave permission to several friends to write stories taking place in the time following " The Warriors " but before " The Soft Weapon "; these stories ( including a handful by Niven ) were collected in a number of volumes of The Man-Kzin Wars, which eventually reached thirteen volumes, the first published June 1988.