A Darker Geometry: A Man-Kzin Novel
by Marko Martin, Gregory Benford
Man-Kzin Wars (7), Known Space (6.07)
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At the heart of Known Space lies mystery: How did so anarchic and violent a species as the Kzin ever learn to cooperate sufficiently to develop the technology to conquer an interstellar empire? The answer to this and other questions have been hinted at before, but now Gregory Benford, a renowned high-energy physicist, and molecular biologist Mark O. Martin bring their formidable talents and extraordinarily broad range of expertise to bear on all the mysteries of Known Space.Tags
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Swet in the 'Man-Kzin/Known Space' universe created by Larry Nive, this novel takes us to one of the more desperate times during the series of invasion fleets that the Kzin launched against an increasingly desperate Earth.
The giant warship Sun-Tzu had been launched against Occupied Wunderland where the thirty crew and passengers planned to use a form of bio warfare against the Kzin overlords. But no battle plan escapes the eye of Murphy and a small band of retreating Kzin ships spot the Sun-Tzu on its long journey and decide their lost honour can be regained by attacking this monster out of Sol.
But even Kzin are relative newcomers to the space lanes and the mysterious Outsiders have a strange inheritance and human and kzin kind have show more intruded into sacred space that would have fatal consequences for the two species show less
The giant warship Sun-Tzu had been launched against Occupied Wunderland where the thirty crew and passengers planned to use a form of bio warfare against the Kzin overlords. But no battle plan escapes the eye of Murphy and a small band of retreating Kzin ships spot the Sun-Tzu on its long journey and decide their lost honour can be regained by attacking this monster out of Sol.
But even Kzin are relative newcomers to the space lanes and the mysterious Outsiders have a strange inheritance and human and kzin kind have show more intruded into sacred space that would have fatal consequences for the two species show less
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Gregory Benford, was born on January 30, 1941 in Mobile, Alabama. He is a physicist and science fiction writer who earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, in 1967. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a consultant for NASA. Benford's first novel "Deeper than the Darkness" (1970), which was revised as "The Stars in Shroud" show more (1978), gave him notice as a serious Science Fiction writer. His most popular work is "Timescape" (1980), which was the winner of the Nebula and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards; it presented a hard physics approach to limited time travel. "In the Ocean of Night" (1977), "Across the Sea of Suns" (1984), "Great Sky River" (1987), "Tides of Light" (1989) and "Furious Gulf" (1994) were all a part of the Galactic Cluster Series. He has also written the juvenile novel "Jupiter Project" (1975), "Against Infinity" (1983) and the thriller "Artifact" (1985). He has been nominated for 12 Nebula Awards (winning for "Timescape" and for the novelette, "If the Stars are Gods"). Benford, writing alternately with Bruce Sterling, produces science fact articles for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. They took over after the death of regular columnist Isaac Asimov. He has also co-edited theme anthologies with Martin H. Greenburg, which include "Hitler Victorious" (1986), "Nuclear War" (1988), "What Might Have Been, Volume 1: Alternate Empires" (1988), "Volume 2: Alternate Heroes" (1989) and "Volume 3: Alternate Wars." (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- A Darker Geometry: A Man-Kzin Novel
- Important places
- Outer space; Known Space
- Original language
- English
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 813.087623
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- Science Fiction, Fiction and Literature
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- 813.087623 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Speculative fiction Science fiction Military science fiction
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- PS3563 .A7252 .D37 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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