Series
Man-Kzin Wars
Hal Colebatch, Larry Niven, Matthew Joseph Harrington, S. M. Stirling, Jerry Pournelle, Dean Ing, Jessica Q. Fox, Paul Chafe, Poul Anderson, Alex Hernandez, Charles E. Gannon, David Bartell, Donald Kingsbury, Gregory Benford, Jane Lindskold, Mark O. Martin, Thomas T. Thomas, Brad R. Torgersen, Brendan DuBois, Greg Bear, Jason Fregeau, Jean Lamb, Martin L. Shoemaker, uncredited & Warren W. James · 10 novels · 20 novellas · 12 novelettes · 24 short stories · 3 collections · 15 anthologies · 1986–2020
The Man–Kzin Wars is the name of a series of military science fiction anthologies as well as the name of the first book in the series. The short stories detail the eponymous conflicts between mankind and the Kzinti, set in Larry Niven's Known Space universe. However, Niven himself has written only a small number of the stories; most were written by other science fiction writers, as Niven opened this part of the Known Space to collaboration in the form of a shared universe. The cover art for the books in the series is created by Stephen Hickman.
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Reading order
✦ Curated by the Loreful team
The Man-Kzin Wars are a numbered shared-world anthology series, and the accepted way through them is the order Baen published them: each volume assumes the wars and characters the earlier ones established, and the few multi-part stories (the Kingsbury and Stirling & Pournelle serials, Colebatch's Wunderland cycle) are continued volume to volume. Niven's own Known Space novels are the universe route; this series reads on its own, in publication order.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Man-Kzin Wars at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s6
- 1990s27
- 2000s25
- 2010s25
- 2020s1
Shape
10 novels · 20 novellas · 12 novelettes · 24 short stories · 3 collections · 15 anthologies
24 authors
Mood
Bright and intense: 66% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book50 of 84 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Madness Has Its Placedarkest · most intense
- Cathousebrightest · calmest