Man-Kzin Wars XIII (2013 PB)
Man-Kzin Wars XIII created by Larry Niven
Baen Books, Feb. 2013
529 pages
Cover art by Stephen Hickman
Contents:
"Misunderstanding" - Hal Colebatch and Jessica Q. Fox
"Two Types of Teeth" - Jane Lindskold
"Pick of the Litter" - Charles E. Gannon
"Tomcat Tactics" - Charles E. Gannon
"At the Gates" - Alex Hernandez
"Zeno's Roulette" - David Bartell
"Bound for the Promised Land" - Alex Hernandez
From inside:
What Are the Odds?
The main kzin force, having gathered in a wide ring around the pillbox, tried to send a team to work through the misty margin between the flank of the strongpoint and the southern hot spring. Weapon fire erupted from the pillbox; two kzinti went down immediately. A third was clipped in the back of the leg as he tried to reach the safety of the treelike again.
The surrounding perimeter of covering brush erupted in weapon fire, all directed inward on the pillbox.
Smith swung his binoculars back to the kzin flankers coming up his slope. The two who had already been veering away were now sprinting pell-mell back in the direction of the battle. Of the remaining three, their pace slowed not due to argument. but to indulge in wistful appreciation of the same martial spectacle.
Which was why none of the three slope-scouting kzinti heard the reports of the elephant guns that fired into them from the rear.
Smith saw one flash and then another jump out of the dark wall of the undergrowth some seventy meters behind the kzin.
Two more flashes licked out of the distant wall of tangled vegetation, and the last kzin fell over, three meters short of the outcropping.
Smith exhaled through a smile.
The fellow next to him in the slit trench - a 'Runner named Tip and their best guncotton brewer - cocked a quizzical head: "What's up hauptman?"
"our odds of success," Smith replied, "our odds of success."
-- from "Tomcat Tactics" bu Charles E. Gannon
Man-Kzin Wars XIII (2013 PB)
Man-Kzin Wars XIII created by Larry Niven
Baen Books, Feb. 2013
529 pages
Cover art by Stephen Hickman
Contents:
"Misunderstanding" - Hal Colebatch and Jessica Q. Fox
"Two Types of Teeth" - Jane Lindskold
"Pick of the Litter" - Charles E. Gannon
"Tomcat Tactics" - Charles E. Gannon
"At the Gates" - Alex Hernandez
"Zeno's Roulette" - David Bartell
"Bound for the Promised Land" - Alex Hernandez
From inside:
What Are the Odds?
The main kzin force, having gathered in a wide ring around the pillbox, tried to send a team to work through the misty margin between the flank of the strongpoint and the southern hot spring. Weapon fire erupted from the pillbox; two kzinti went down immediately. A third was clipped in the back of the leg as he tried to reach the safety of the treelike again.
The surrounding perimeter of covering brush erupted in weapon fire, all directed inward on the pillbox.
Smith swung his binoculars back to the kzin flankers coming up his slope. The two who had already been veering away were now sprinting pell-mell back in the direction of the battle. Of the remaining three, their pace slowed not due to argument. but to indulge in wistful appreciation of the same martial spectacle.
Which was why none of the three slope-scouting kzinti heard the reports of the elephant guns that fired into them from the rear.
Smith saw one flash and then another jump out of the dark wall of the undergrowth some seventy meters behind the kzin.
Two more flashes licked out of the distant wall of tangled vegetation, and the last kzin fell over, three meters short of the outcropping.
Smith exhaled through a smile.
The fellow next to him in the slit trench - a 'Runner named Tip and their best guncotton brewer - cocked a quizzical head: "What's up hauptman?"
"our odds of success," Smith replied, "our odds of success."
-- from "Tomcat Tactics" bu Charles E. Gannon