《The Man-Kzin Wars 》作者：- Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Dean Ing【EPUB】

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The Man-Kzin Wars I Larry Niven Produced by calibre 0.6.40 The Man-Kzin Wars I Larry Niven with Poul Anderson and Dean Ing CONTENTS Introduction, Larry Niven THE WARRIORS, Larry Niven IRON, Poul Anderson CATHOUSE, Dean Ing Introduction Larry Niven "The Warriors" wasn't just the first tale of the kzinti. It was the first story I ever offered for sale. I was daydreaming in math class, as usual, and I realized that I'd shaped a complete story. So I wrote it down, and bought some magazines to get the editorial addresses, and started it circulating. It was years before anyone bought it. By then I'd rewritten it countless times, trying out what I was learning from my correspondence writing course. Fred Pohl (editor of Galaxy and Worlds of If in those days) saw it often enough that he eventually wrote, "I think this can be improved . . . but maybe you're tired of reworking it, so I'll buy it as is . It was probably his title, too. The kzinti look a little blurred here, don't they? I mean, if you've known them elsewhere. Subsequently they changed in several ways. I learned to answer John W. Campbell's challenge: "Show me something that thinks as well as a man, or better, but not like a man." The kzinti took on more detail, gained greater consistency and lost some of their resemblance to humanity. They were born as one of a thousand catlike aliens in science fiction. As I learned how to make an alien from basic principles, body and mind and soul, the kzinti became more themselves. At the same time they were changing in another way, evolving over several