I’ve also had the opportunity to play in the sand box (litter box?) of the Man-Kzin war setting within Larry Niven’s Known World universe. To say that was a lot of fun, and quite an honor, would be a vast understatement…

In summer 2003, I met Larry Niven in the hallway at Albacon and pitched him two story ideas for Man-Kzin Wars. He liked them, asked me to send them, I did—and so began an almost comical tale of missed emails, misplaced world bibles, and general mistakes that kept them from getting to print for almost a decade. However, here they are together in Man-Kzin Wars XIII: Pick of the Litter and Tomcat Tactics. A pair of braided novellas, they actually work as a short, two-part novel (about 75 K) long.