《Man-Kzin wars 12本合集》作者： - Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, J. E. Pournell

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Man-Kzin Wars II by Larry Niven with Dean Ing Jerry Pournelle and M. Stirling This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictionaland any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. Copyright 1989 by Larry NivenAll rights reserved including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in anyform. A Baen Books Original Baen Publishing Enterprises 260 Fifth Avenue New York N.Y. 10001 ISBN: 0-671-69833-8 Cover art by Steve Hickman First printing August 1989 Distributed by SIMON amp SCHUSTER 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York N.Y. 10020 Printed in the United States of America Introduction The franchise universe lives When I first began sneaking into the playgrounds of other authors I had my doubts. Still PhilFarmer seemed to be having a lovely time reshaping the worlds hed played in as a child. So Iwrote a Dunsany story and an extrapolation of Lovecraft and an attempt at a Black Cat detectivestory and a study of Supermans sex life. Fred Saberhagen invited me to write a Berserker story and I found it indecently easy. MEDEA: Harlans World was a collaboration universe. Slow to become a book it ultimately becamea classic study of how creative minds may build and populate a solar system. So Jim Baen and I invited selected authors to write stories set 14000 years ago when magicstill worked. We filled two books with tales of the Warlocks era. We also drove Niven halfnuts. The idea was for Jim to do all the work and me to take all the credit. But Jim partedcompany with Ace Books and I had to learn more than I ever wanted to know about being aneditor I entered a universe infested with lizard-like pirateslavers because of David Drakes urgingand because of a notion I found irresistible: the murder of Halleys Comet. When Susan Shwartzasked several of us to write new tales of the Thousand and One Nights I rapidly realized thatScheherazade had overlooked a serious threat. I stayed out of Thieves World-too busy-but I wastempted. Still would readers and the publishing industry continue to support this kind of thing Itseemed like too much