Work
The Warriors
Larry Niven · 1966short story
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In the first published story to feature the Kzinti, the slower-than-light crew of a human ramship is ambushed by an alien warship whose commander treats negotiation as weakness. Their scrambled, half-armed defense fires the opening shots of what history will come to call the Man-Kzin Wars.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Placement
- Known Space
- contained in Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Nivencollection
- contained in The Best of All Possible Wars: The Best of the Man-Kzin Warsanthology
- contained in The Man-Kzin Warsanthology
- contained in The Shape of Spacecollection
- contained in Three Books of Known Spaceomnibus