'The Sulvivor' is your chance to get them back. If you once read Donald Kingsbury's Courtship Rite. Yet such matters can be handled with taste, or at least versimilitude. (We have some partial understanding of why humans are an exception.) Humans will smell wrong this is established as important to kzinti. There's no flexibility in their mating habits. Large warm-blooded animals that have to fight don't have big impressive dongs. Jim Bacn and I have solicited stories which we bought and then rejected because they didn't fit my standards. but when you play in my playground you don't vandalize the equipment.

I wouldn't be so picky with a story set in someone else's territory. I hope the network bandit doesn't turn up again. I don't want the playground getting too crowded. It would have been fun to see what he might do with it but I'm going to refuse him anyway. He sent me the Fleet bio for his kzin: a crewman aboard a federation battlewagon. (Lawsuits) I'm still a little twitchy on the subject, so don't take any of this too personally. A friend alerted me and we spoke the magic word and frightened him away. The last guy who did that involved the kzinti in a sadomasochistic homosexual gang,bang, badly, and published it on a computer network. (Fanzines, fan magazines, exist strictly for recreation.) Gary Wells wanted nothing of Known Space, just the kzinti, embedded in a Star Trek backgrounds I wrote I hereby refuse you permission to use the kzinti in any literary property. Stirling 245 INTRODUCTION Last month a stranger in New Jersey asked permission to use the kzinti in his fanzine. 10020 Printed in the United Stutes of Amenca CONTENTS Introduction, Larry Niven vii THE SURVIVOR, Donald Kingsbury1 THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KZIN, Greg Bear & S.M.

10471 ISBN: 9-1 Cover art by Stephen Hickman First printing, September 1991 Distributed by SIMON & SCHUSTER 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, N.Y.

A Bacn Books Original Bacn Publishing Enterprises P.O. Copyright (it) 1991 by Larry Niven All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. Stirling CALL MAN-KZIN WAR: IV This is a work of fiction. THE SURVIVOR MAN- KZIN WARS IV Created by Larry Niven with Donald Kingsbury Greg Bear and S.M.

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