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The Wunder War (Man-Kzin Wars) (Mass Market Paperback)

by Hal Colebatch (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Baen Books; Reprint edition (1 Mar 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743498941
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743498944
  • Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.6 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 272,348 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The first colonists from Earth named the planet Wunderland. Generations later, the felinoid invaders called Kzin came and turned it into a hell for humans. Touched on in other accounts of the Man-Kzin wars, here for the first time is the decades-long saga of Wunderland: How the Wunderlanders first learned of the Kzin attacks on Earth by slower-than-light communications, barely in time to prepare to fight back. How valiant human defenders turned to guerrilla warfare in the Wunderland jungles and caves after the feline warrior race had destroyed or seized the cities. And what happened after the Kzin suffered an ignominious defeat. Many humans wanted revenge and many Kzin still saw humans as just an annoying food source. Was the war really over...?

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars By far the best Man-Kzin Wars author, 25 Feb 2004
By Theodore Stauffer "theo_stauffer" (Zurich, Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MAN-KZIN WARS X (Man-Kzin Wars) (Hardcover)
I would like to personally thank Hal Colebatch for this excellent book of 4 linked stories. It's not the action, even though the battle scenes remind one of someone who has actually seen a real battle, nor is the technical ideas, being as they are already part fo well known SF cannon. No, it is the character portrayal of two species at war and the excellent depiction and development of an alien Kzin's actions, thoughts and feelings amidst the bloodshed, attempted friendship, trust and betrayal.

In all other Man-Kzin Wars' stories the Kzin are constantly portrayed as being extremely stupid, cruel and dumb, but in this one a few of them have real feelings and development and one feels for the Seareant Character and his losses and pains. I caught myself shedding a tear after the 3rd and 4th stories, something I don't usually do.

I loved these cliché busting stories, showing more shades of human and alien thought and feeling than in most SF.

Excellent!

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Splendid Adventure!, 1 Sep 2003
By Susan Norton (Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: MAN-KZIN WARS X (Man-Kzin Wars) (Hardcover)
The latest work in the best-selling Man-Kzin Wars Saga. This book, totalling about 140,000 words, is actually two linked novels and two long short stories, all sharing characters. The first, One War for Wunderland, narrated by biologist Nils Rykermann, tells how the ferocious feliniod Kzinti descended on the (superficially) peaceful human colony of Wunderland and smashed its hastily-erected defences. Only one fragile and forgotten hope escaped (In this it is a bit like The Lord of the Rings). The next, The Corporal in the Caves, set several years later, tells of a Kzin military operation to flush out the remanats of human guerilla activity. The last word of this, when I realised what had actually happened, had me in tears - which books seldom do. The next story, Music Box, is set after the war when humans and Kzin on both sides are working to build a peace and others -on both sides - are trying to sabotage it. This story is the most character-driven but like the others has plenty of blood-thirsty action. The final story, Peter Robinson, is set several hundred years later, in the time of Niven's "Ringworld," when humans and Kzinti have been, very warily, co-operating for some time. A joint human-Kzin expedition into space accidently unleashes a threat to the whole Galaxy, and only a human-raised Kzin can stop it. Again, I found this story, like the others, deeply moving. I should add there is quite a bit of humour in them as well, particularly the scene in Music Box of a tough old Kzin trying to respect a human woman's modesty, and the final scene in Music Box when Nils Rykermann is back at his old University job - in a sense he is back where he started at the opening of One War for Wunderland but in another sense everything has changed. One really feels for several of the characters. This is a great collection, exciting, sensitive and well-written, and I think destined to become a landmark in this great series! I hope the author is nominated for an award for his contribution to intelligent but fast-paced and well-written SF-fantasy.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Four great stories!, 21 Aug 2003
By Susan Norton (Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: MAN-KZIN WARS X (Man-Kzin Wars) (Hardcover)
These four interconnected stories, two short novels and two novellas, make up a teriffic whole of about 140,000 words. The first, "One War for Wunderland" tells of the invasion of Wunderland, a human colony-world, by the ferocious, man-eating Kzin. A broad-brush epic in the tradition of Poul anderson, but also setting the scene for a love-story that will emerge again later. This long story sets the scene for decades of war and desperate human resistance. "The Corporal in the Caves,' - told from the point of view of a Kzin, is strangely moving and I actually found myself shedding a tear when I realised, with the last word, what had actually happened. The next story, "Music Box" is in some ways the best, telling how, after the war, some Kzin and humans strove to establish a lasting peace, against others on both sides who wanted the war fought to the bitter end. "Peter Robinson", set much later, sees humans and Kzin confronted with a common threat - not just to themselves but to the whole Galaxy. Can they co-operate and stop it? Plenty of action in all of them and the characters are memorably and sometimes poignantly drawn. Also a sprinkling of sly jokes. This is SF by a master-craftsman who is also a highly-accomplished writer in a number of other fields. Buy it! You won't be disappointed!
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