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Destiny's Forge (Man-Kzin Wars) (Mass Market Paperback)

by Paul Chafe (Author), Larry Niven (Creator)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 976 pages
  • Publisher: Baen Books,U.S.; Reprint edition (25 Sep 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1416555072
  • ISBN-13: 978-1416555070
  • Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.4 x 4.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 274,596 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In the wake of their defeat by the humans, an ambitious Kchula-Tzaatz seizes control of the Kzinti Patriarchy, sending Pouncer, First-Son-of-Meerz-Rritt, heir apparent to the galaxy's most powerful empire, on a desperate flight for survival following the collapse of his father's dynasty, and forcing Major Quacy Tskombe and Captain Ayla Cherenkova i

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5.0 out of 5 stars A good story!, 3 Oct 2006
By Sacha (Western Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Destiny's Forge (Man-Kzin Wars) (Hardcover)
In telling the story of the dispossessed prince who returns to claim his throne and defeat the usurper, Chafe has reverted to archetypes, sure - Dune, Hamlet, even The Lord of the Rings. So what's wrong with that? It's a great story. It's not the last time it will be retold. But Chafe tells it with pace, non-stop excitement and many original aspects of his own that provides a true feast for MK fans!

Other Man-Kzin authors have treated the wars differently - Hal Colebatch in MK X and XI has taken a more character-driven approach to the whole question of the War for Wunderland and the fraught Man-Kzin peace following its liberation. Mathew Harrington in MK XI looks at the question of Kzintis' relationship to human protectors. These stories are excellent but less "Epic" and archetypal than Chafe's - though Colebatch's delicate evocation of the quivering, just-short-of-sexual relationshiop between Dimity Carmody and Vaemar-Riit is epical in its way, as is his saga "One War for Wunderland" in MK-X.

Read then all together, and you'll discover a great, complex, exciting and often moving story! The various writers complement each other beautifulkly to produce a great and fascinating work.

These are tremendous stories! One isn't better than the other, but they are all excellent. When do we get the movie?
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3.0 out of 5 stars Destiny's Forge, 5 Sep 2006
This review is from: Destiny's Forge (Man-Kzin Wars) (Hardcover)
It is light weight and entertaining, but seems familiar somehow. Let me put it this way. Who should be in the film of Destiny's Forge?

Duke Leto Atreides as Meerz-Rrit, Patriarch of Kzin
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen as Kchula-Tzaatz
Paul Atreides as "Pouncer" First-son-of-Meerz-Rrit
St. Alia of the Knife as Ayla Cherenkova (a human!)
Thufir Hawatt as Rrit-Conserver
Pitr De Vries as Ftzaal-Tzaatz

You could hire the Fremen to play the primitive, though numerous, dangerous and under-estimated Czrav tribes of Kzinhome (perfect place for a young, hunted duke to hide) and their Sandworms could even serve as Tskvor, especially during Pouncer's final assault on...

I'm sure you get the idea. As I said, it was entertaining and I bet the special effects department would have a lot of fun creating the "Wunderland Treaty Maker".
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good, light action, 26 Feb 2009
By Theodore Stauffer "theo_stauffer" (Zurich, Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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As many reviewers have stated, this book has many elements of Dune that have been adapted from that feudal alien environment to this creature alien environment, with some added splashes of flavour and action to make it sing. It's good, light action, and worth the read if you're a fan of the series, and possibly if you're a fan of the Dune series as well, since this book is a lot better written and characterised than the awkward novels that Frank Herbet's son, along with Kevin Anderson has been putting out. But that's another story, as the saying goes....

An interesting footnote is that I think that Neal Asher's favourite alien enemies, the Prador Prador Moon (Novel of the Polity) albeit crustaceans, also have first children (and second and third children too!) I wonder if Mr Asher wasn't having a bit of a laugh at old school SF here?
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