Kzinti known space books

Known space crashlander beowulf shaeffer ringworld ringworld engineers the ringworld throne ringworlds children fleet of worlds juggler of worlds destroyer of worlds betrayer of worlds. A construct the size of the orbit of the earth, with a habitable surface that can hold trillions of people. The kzinti singular kzin are a species of felinoid aliens know for their bloodthirsty and warlike disposition. But if you are a big fan of nivens work just get it, youll love it. Humans knew them as slavers the thrintun singular thrint, in larry nivens fictional known space universe, are a longextinct species that ruled the galaxy through telepathic mind control.

Published through baen books in 1988, this was later rereleased on the 15th of june in 2006, setting up the first in a longrunning franchise of much loved novels. Its year is roughly one and a half times longer than earths, and its day is 27 hrs and 36 minutes long. Establishing the world from what it originally was in the known space franchise, this manages to take the series forwards in a new, fun and exciting direction. Mar, 2020 the star trek canon didnt get all of nivens known space canon with the slaver weapon, but it did get the kzinti, and it seems, possibly one other concept trekkies have forgotten about. Illustration of piersons puppeteer from barlowes guide to extraterrestrials. Known space series fanfiction archive with over 5 stories. The kzin home world is the third planet orbiting the star 61 ursae majoris. The star trek canon didnt get all of nivens known space canon with the slaver weapon, but it did get the kzinti, and it seems, possibly one other concept trekkies have forgotten about. Several books describe the fictional mercenary infantry force known as falkenbergs legion. The kzinti homeworld orbits the star 61 ursae majoris at a distance somewhat greater than that at which earth orbits the sun.

Also includes inside cover art by bonnie dalzell inside front is a kzinti. The centerpiece of the known space universe is the ringworld, an artificially created planet that is actually an immense band orbiting a distant star halo borrows this idea for its setting. Nivens known space universe is so fertile that its bred this wonderful series. Timeline for known space three books of known space places this story between flatlander and grendel, and it must take place before grendel, as grogs are interstellar passengers in that story crashlander p. Overall their space tech is much closer to the realistic side save for the fact that ships will engage in physical combat, without uber energy shields or technobabble weapons. The known space started to be populated with brazen images of aliens and description of far off worlds. From larry nivens known space series of science fiction books, the kzinti patriarch is the leader of the kzin race.

Kzinti evolved from a plains hunting felid on a slightly colder, drier planet than earth. The kzinti empire fought, and lost, four or six interstellar wars with humans. Piersons puppeteers, often known just as puppeteers, are a fictional alien race from american author larry niven s known space books. After reading a story about the kzin in another book i was compelled to read the man kzin wars to learn more about the kzinti. Want more stories set in known space, the mankzin wars adds 3 more short stories. Revenge of the patriarch tsunami games released the dos video game ringworld. The animated series he based it on one of his known space stories, the soft weapon, in the process putting the kzinti. Well known niven characters including beowulf schaeffer, sigmund ausfaller, nessus and other alien puppeteers, the ferocious kzinti. The kzin word for their home planet translates as homeworld. By 2645, known space included human space plus the kzinti and kdatlyno spheres of influence, and was more than 60 light years across. The two novels are world of ptavvs and a gift from earth, with the stories from tales of known space. The mankzin wars is a series of military science fiction short story collections and is the name of the first collection, as well as the eponymous conflicts between mankind and the kzinti that they detail.

Dr jerry eugene pournelle was an american science fiction writer, engineer, essayist, and journalist, who contributed for many years to the computer magazine byte, and from 1998 until his death maintained his own website and blog. I read every word of known space and the first three ring world books until my eyes bled. Three books of known space by larry niven goodreads. Kzinti memory beta, noncanon star trek wiki fandom. There is always a very good blend of stories in each volume, which expand the horizons and history of the known space aliens that larry niven originally created in the ringworld series and his other books and then let other writers join in with contributions of their own. Thoughts and observations on the kzinti from the slaver.

The kzinti were initially introduced in nivens story the warriors originally in worlds of if 1966, collected in tales of known space 1975 and the soft weapon 1967, collected in neutron star 1968. From approximately 2360 to 2618 ce humans in the sol and alpha centauri systems fought several protracted interstellar wars with the kzinti. It includes three books within, though the short story contents are spread out to make everything chronological within nivens known universe. Come with us as we explore known space and the many other worlds of larry niven. While ive only read a bit in that universe, though, i think they use a very different ftl and the universe works quite differently.

The book itself roams all over known space, mostly through the musings of protagonist louis wu. Kzinti are highly sexually dimorphic, at least in terms of intelligence. The animated series he based it on one of his known space stories, the soft weapon, in the process putting the kzinti into the star trek universe. It has also become a shared universe in the spinoff mankzin wars anthologies. Throughout the range of the known space books, the patriarchy is held by the riit family. Its most famous entry is ringworld, one of the very few novels to win both the hugo and nebula awards. The thrintun singular thrint, in larry nivens fictional known space universe, are a longextinct species that ruled the galaxy through telepathic mind control. If you havent read the mankzin entries, this is the place to start because this is the place it started. The central concept of ringworld is the ringworld itself. As i recall, ballantine reprinted several of nivens books with similar inside cover art in 1975. Buy a cheap copy of mankzin wars 2 book by larry niven. Dates range from after 1975 to 2040 on our known space timeline. The kzinti believe that there is a free jotoki fleet wandering amongst the stars, which would have provided their most strenuous opposition excepting humans. Human space world of ptavvs flatlander gil hamilton protector a gift from earth tales of known space 2.

The mankzin wars are a shared universe series of anthologies set in larry nivens known space. The alien kzinti had almost conquered the humans, but after the initial surprise, the humans fought back with a ferocity the kzinti had never faced. Larry niven wrote a number of science fiction books set in a. Well known niven characters including beowulf schaeffer, sigmund ausfaller, nessus and other alien puppeteers, the ferocious kzinti appear in these pages. Hey, so i recently read listened to the first part of the audiobook for larry nivens ringworld and in it is the character speakertoanimals is a kzinti. D makes me want to dig out my known space books again. Fans began to digest these concepts with a hunger not knowing that there was more to this reality. Known space features several wellrealized alien species, many of whom are from planets of hats. Revenge of the patriarch in 1992 a graphical adventure set in larry nivens known space universe. A technologically advanced race of threelegged herbivores who consider courage a type of insanity. Larger than human, a kzin appears as a very fat tabby cat. The universe of larry niven by rick sternbach notes. Also known as kzin, the kzinti are a race of sentient feline carnivores native to the planet kzin.

Kilrathi wing commander books thread starter zombozo. Known space is the name of larry nivens largest and bestdeveloped future history series of science fiction stories. This was the book that really got me back into scifi, gave me a taste of what was possible, and fully introduced me to the inimitable larry niven this book has a special place in my heart. The series is set in the same universe as nivens known space series. Looking for more, i originally picked up a copy of n space in some used book store in seattle probably ophelias and was instantly fascinated. Larry nivens known space is a series of books spanning 300 years of time and 60 lightyears of space. The animated series first season episode the slaver weapon and coauthored the star trek comic strip story arc the wristwatch plantation. Nspace by larry niven meet your next favorite book. Larry niven is the author of ringworld, the coauthor of the mote in gods eye and lucifers hammer, the editor of the mankzin war series, and has written or coauthored over 50 books.

See more ideas about larry niven, sci fi books and cool books. Isfdb catalogs all works set in the fictional universe that includes known space under the series name tales of known space, which was the title of a 1975 collection of nivens short stories. The seven eras of known space divides the known space timeline into seven eras. Niven, who was the writer of 1973s the slaver weapon, apparently granted picard showrunner michael chabon permission to drop a reference to the kzinti in the series. The firstpublished work in the series, which was nivens first published piece was t. The man kzin wars man kzin wars, book after an unarmed human vessel from the earliest days of the planets space exploration is attacked by the violent kzin, the feline warrior race learns a surprising lesson from the vengeful human race. The stories are about the war between humans and the race known as the kzinti. This order is definitely not a chronological one, and it isnt at all the order in which the stories were written. This nivenverse includes the billionplusyearold races thrint and tnuctipun, and more recently the puppeteers, the pak, and the kzinti, to name but a few.

He is a fivetime winner of the hugo award, along with a nebula and numerous others. The world is often known as kzinhome by the kzinti themselves. Humans and human worlds in known space larry niven. This allows a reader to discover larry nivens series of known space books in an order that will maximize enjoyment while letting the reader bail early if they dont enjoy nivens unique style.

Hugo award winner neutron star and seven other groundbreaking stories and novellas by the author of ringworld. Literally covering billions of years, known space short stories and novels began in the 60s, and jumpstarted in the late 1990s to the present day. Dates specified in the story 1 place a gift from earth in the year 2410, and nivens timeline in three books of known space agrees. However, that date must be erroneous, for the following reasons. Between 1968 and 1970, larry published the ringworld which became an instant hit.

The kzinti patriarch is the leader of the kzin race. They look very like something from the expanse, which i will get to shortly. The kzinti from the episode sure dont look very much like larry nivens maneating cats in space from his known space works. The worlds that humanity has settled have begun to shape mankind into wildly differing breeds. The near future a handful of stories concern exploration of planets in own solar system, which in the known space series is called sol system. This was a fatal mistake for the kzinti, of course.

Kzinti and humans have a similar biochemistry which hints the existence of a common ancestor in the remote past. Ramjets are very much not faster than light and this is. References dates era description 1975 to 2040 near future stories concerned with the exploration of of sol system, our own solar system. It was his prerogative to use them in the trek episode and comic strip he wrote, but for the rest of us, regardless of any legal issues, i think it would be rude to coopt them without nivens consent or cooperation. The kzinti were created by larry niven, making their first appearance in the short story the warriors, part of his known space series. Once upon a time, in the very earliest days of interplanetary exploration, an unarmed human vessel was set upon by a warship from the planet kzinhome of the fiercest warriors in known space. Larry nivens ringworld, the kzinti, and star trek question. Tales of humankinds centuries long conflict with feline aliens, the kzinti. After rewatching the slaver weapon, and being fresh off a marathon run of the expanse, something struck me. The most recent additions to the series are the novels fleet of worlds 2007 and juggler of worlds 2008, both coauthored by edward m. World of ptaavs was larry nivens first novel, published in 1966, and with its 2106 setting it is one of the first stories chronologically in the known space canon. Picard kzinti easter egg links star trek to the works of. Establishing the world from what it originally was in the known space franchise, this manages to take the series forwards in.

The jotoki became the slaves and foodanimals of the ferocious kzinti. The thrintun singular thrint, are a longextinct species which ruled the galaxy through telepathic mind control from 3 to 2 billion years ago. I really like reading about known space and i dont mind other authours mingling in. As tom clancy says, the scope of larry nivens work is so vast that only a writer of supreme talent could disguise the fact as well as he can. Yes, the kzinti have been featured in several novels, notably the ringworld series, juggler of worlds, and fate of worlds, as well as in shorter works in tales of known space and neutron star and the volume mankzin wars anthology series plus several fixup novels collecting stories from mkw volumes. Theyre a major part of his known space universe, far more so than they were ever part of trek. The kzinti are a sapient, spacefaring race of mammalianoids. Kzinti war mind by argentfatalis fur affinity dot net. A drink called blue fire 2728 is mentioned in this story, but that cannot be the vintage year. Mankzin wars xiv is the latest installment in the larry nivens known space saga which i love. I went about trying to understand what were all the stories and in which order i should read them. It is generally considered by scholars of science fiction to be one of the most internally consistent, if not always the most scientifically plausible, sf settings in the history of the genre. As with other facets of the kzinti culture, natural selection is used to choose the patriarch through combat citation needed. Each book is short stories or novellas that describe encounters between a space faring humanity and the catlike, aggressive.

A highly aggressive, catlike and warlike interstellar species, one of the most prominent in known space. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading juggler of worlds. Ive seen it around so often, i finally picked it up and read it. The race first appeared in nivens novella, neutron star. Agressive catlike aliens who fight several brutal and ultimately unsuccessful interstellar wars with humanity. A large male may be eight feet tall and weigh nearly 500 pounds. Known space is a future history setting used by author larry niven as a base for thirtyfive of his short stories and nine novels.

Is there a full directed graph for suggested order of reading of all known space books stories. This is hinted to have been a result of most species in known space evolving from similar forms of yeast that many worlds were seeded with in order to provide food for the now extinct thrintun. Within the setting itself, known space refers to a relatively small. The mankzin wars is a series of military science fiction anthologies and novels created by american author larry niven. I really like reading about known space and i dont mind other authours mingling in with the great larry niven. Make sure you arent buying too many things you have already read, or have in your collection. How strong is the restriction against using the kzinti. Niven is best known as the creator of the known space universe, for which he has written many novels and short stories. The movies were a significant budget and to use anything else from the known space series, they would have had to negotiate royalties, as well as making sure that the trek universe dovetailed with known space. The kzinti also appear in star trek and while i can find that they are the species, i cant find any mention if its a lone crossover or if the ringworld universe is in the st universe. Little did i realise that this would be an enormous task that is still partially unfinished. I am always glad to get my hands on another man kzin wars book.

Known space is the fictional setting of about a dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by larry niven. Humans are scattered throughout known space, living on planets or in asteroid belts or spending their time flying between stars. This omnibus brings together three tales set in larry nivens known space universe that had only sporadically been available since their publication in the 1960s. Mar 31, 2020 but, the deeper origin of the kzinti is actually from larry nivens sprawling series of short stories and novels, collectively called the known space universe. As i have written on the original submission, this is the first kzinti i have seen here or on other furry sites.