Treasure Planet ManKzin Wars Series offshoot Book 2 eBook Hal Colebatch Jessica Q Fox
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A thrilling stand-alone novel addition to the long-running, popular Man-Kzin Wars series created by New York Times multiple best seller, Larry Niven.
“Ah, the wealth o’ the treasure planet be beyond the dreams of Man or the hopes o’ Kzin!”
On Wunderland, a generation after Liberation, memories of the bloody kzin conquest and Occupation have faded, and men and kzin live largely in peace. But the fabulous treasure of the kzin pirates, hidden on a distant world, remains a magnet for freebooters. Young Peter Cartwright and his kzinrett friend Marthar receive information and map from a most unlikely source and soon themselves fighting the most ruthless pirates in Known Space for an unimaginable prize.
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About the Man-Kzin War Series
“[The Man-Kzin Wars series is] excellent . . .gripping . . .and expands well on Larry Niven’s universe. . . .” –Locus
Hal Colebatch is an Australian writer, journalist, editor and lawyer with a wide range of publications. He’s best known in science fiction as a long-time series author in the Man-Kzin War universe, with many appearances in the popular anthologies helmed by Larry Niven. He has created several original characters including Dimity Carmody, Nils Rykerman and Vaemar-Riit.
Jessica Q. Fox is an engineer with a major in stochastic control. She has had four other books published. What the Q stands for is a closely guarded secret.
Treasure Planet ManKzin Wars Series offshoot Book 2 eBook Hal Colebatch Jessica Q Fox
This book is purportedly a standalone contribution to the Man-Kzin Wars series that I have been following ever since the first one came out, and I was looking forward to it given the high quality of every other one I had read.Well, that was a few dollars and a few hours wasted, then!
There are a number of things wrong with the book, and only a very few things right.
The first and most glaring fault is that it reads like a bastard offspring of RL Stevenson's Treasure Island and a Poul Anderson rip-off: Kzin talking like Old Earth pirates, really?? Right down to oo ar matey and shiver my timbers, almost, AND characters like Long John Silver transplanted lock, stock and pegleg into Niven's Known Space Universe.
Another uncomfortable aspect was the almost random mixture of technologies throughout the book: cutlasses and blasters, high-end self-powering teaching nanotech and having to run around on foot?? No cell-type phones for Wunderlanders, while Kzin seemed to have them, which necessitated people riding around on horses to call for help???
The plot also had holes big enough enough to run an adult kzin through. About the least bad was crew selection, which of course necessitated a flimsy excuse for hiring just a bout a whole pirate crew - no background checks in Known Space, guys?? And seriously, a tech hoard find like the one described - with transfer discs a la puppeteers - wouldn't have made an impact in the Known Space timeline as we know it?
The ONLY saving grace in what is effectively a badly-written kids' book was the description of the library hardware and training software, and the construction of the alien written language - and that was incongruous when laid up against the juvenility of the rest of it. That's some money and some time I'll never get back.
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Treasure Planet ManKzin Wars Series offshoot Book 2 eBook Hal Colebatch Jessica Q Fox Reviews
As always, my opened up the file on chapter one, page one and I began to read. I wish I'd scrolled back a page to realize the authors made a creative choice to model the Kinz after RLS's pirates. It didn't prove distracting, I just wish I'd realized it in advance. I think I would have enjoyed it more from the beginning. You will pick up familiar characters from the last few Man Kinz war series that read true to the way they were created by other authors.
All in all, a fun read. Summer is upon us as I write this review. This is a good summer read.
I am long time fan of the Man Kzin series. Initially the series was compelling, a conflict between 2 species with vastly different social systems, cultures, and biology, often times told from non-human perspectives. But the later works have become increasingly forced and juvenile. This book is the worst of the lot. Treasure Island gone to Kzin does not cut it. The series has jumped the shark. Too bad, the premise of renegade Kzins who opted out of the Kzin social structure because of its obvious pointlessness for all but a few at the top, yet who by culture and genetics remained Kzin despite it all could have been interesting. The compelling nature of the series could have been resuscitated. Instead we get rum drinking caricatures of pirates.
Yes, this book is a homage to Robert Luis Stephenson's Treasure Island, set in the Man Kzin universe after the liberation of Wunderland. Two best friends, the human Peter Cartwright and the kzinrett Marthar work together in his mother's small Wunderland village inn. In comes an drunken old Kzin pirate, who takes residence in one of the inn's rooms, tells crazy rum fueled tales to the locals, and eventually dies without paying his bar tab, plus leaving behind an encrypted map to a planet filled with technological artifacts of an unknown civilization. Marthar's family and some human scientists decide to use the map's coordinates to mount a scientific expedition to this "treasure planet." Of course, since these archaelogical relics can be sold on the interstellar black market, PIRATES are out to steal it through any means possible, resulting in a swashbuckling adventure (complete with a dastardly pirate kzin leader with a mechanical leg).
Also, I particularly enjoyed the female kzin character Marthar. Marthar is descendant of Vaemar-Ritt, and takes special intelligence enhancing drugs to live a normal life (since most Kzin females are born stupid through genetic tampering done to the Kzin species in their past, and these females are typically kept locked away from the public in harems by their male relatives and husbands). Her greatest fear in life is not having access to her drugs and being reduced to a large housecat.
If you have enjoyed previous stories in the Man Kzin wars series, then you will probably like this book, new readers will probably want to read other previous Man Kzin wars stories to get some more background information.
Impressive adaptation of Treasure Island, which I haven't read in a long time, but it has the feel of the story and the setting and the characters. Seems to be a faithful version, though the treasure is more interesting--and I'd love to find out more about that! Having the Kzinti use pirate jargon takes a bit of getting used to, but Silver is certainly a bloodthirsty pirate. My favorite character was Marthar, also the Doctor and the Judge and Bengar (I didn't catch on to his name till later.) And I can see why Marthar treated Peter like a pet sometimes...
There was a bit of an info dump at the beginning, but it covered a lot of territory. It's way different from most of the Man-Kzin stories, but it's well done, and it would be interesting reading it with the original and comparing them. Challenging school assignment.
Note And that reminds me of the Jack London story, "To Build a Fire," and the companion SF update, "To Ignite a Fire on Enceladus" by Vincent Miskell.
This book is purportedly a standalone contribution to the Man-Kzin Wars series that I have been following ever since the first one came out, and I was looking forward to it given the high quality of every other one I had read.
Well, that was a few dollars and a few hours wasted, then!
There are a number of things wrong with the book, and only a very few things right.
The first and most glaring fault is that it reads like a bastard offspring of RL Stevenson's Treasure Island and a Poul Anderson rip-off Kzin talking like Old Earth pirates, really?? Right down to oo ar matey and shiver my timbers, almost, AND characters like Long John Silver transplanted lock, stock and pegleg into Niven's Known Space Universe.
Another uncomfortable aspect was the almost random mixture of technologies throughout the book cutlasses and blasters, high-end self-powering teaching nanotech and having to run around on foot?? No cell-type phones for Wunderlanders, while Kzin seemed to have them, which necessitated people riding around on horses to call for help???
The plot also had holes big enough enough to run an adult kzin through. About the least bad was crew selection, which of course necessitated a flimsy excuse for hiring just a bout a whole pirate crew - no background checks in Known Space, guys?? And seriously, a tech hoard find like the one described - with transfer discs a la puppeteers - wouldn't have made an impact in the Known Space timeline as we know it?
The ONLY saving grace in what is effectively a badly-written kids' book was the description of the library hardware and training software, and the construction of the alien written language - and that was incongruous when laid up against the juvenility of the rest of it. That's some money and some time I'll never get back.
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