Rating: 
Summary: Worth a look for two good stories.
Review: (...)This addition to the long-running Man-Kzin sharecrop series is
worth your attention for two stories: Niven's Own "Fly-by-Night", which
is pretty good, but had an uncredited earlier appearance in (IB)
Asimov's. And newish author Paul Chafe, whose "Windows of the Soul" is
the best of the book, and the one that makes MK-IX worth looking for,
even if you've already seen the Niven. "Windows" starts out as an ARM
police-procedural on Tiamat station, after the brutal murder and
dismemberment of Miranda Holtzman, a 19 year-old student engineer. ARM
Captain Joel Allson develops a hot romance during the investigation --
which veers off into a disturbing political-terrorist operation, and
finishes with a truly nasty twist. Nice. Chafe's had a couple of
previous (unmemorable) appearances (in MK-VII & VIII). The other two stories are a Poul Anderson novella ("Pele"), set aside
after a slow, dull start, and "His Sergeant's Honor" by Hal Colebatch,
which reads like a novel outline. For a bad, dull novel: "As you know,
Raargh-Sergeant, we Wunderkzin..." [note 1] Did I mention the Lurid Baen Cover...? It's Howling Time! Conclusion: one of the weaker of the Man-Kzin books, but the Chafe is
first-rate entertainment. Happy reading!
Pete Tillman Note 1) I see that the old saw "As you know, Bob...", used to lampoon lumpy exposition,
may not be as widely known as I thought.
So: this wasn't a real quote, folks, it was parody.
Rating: 
Summary: This is an excellent book for killing a few hours
Review: This is not the world's most serious or enlightening science-fiction, but it IS fun.
All three stories in this book are fun romps through the future and are well worth the time it takes to read them. All are epics of the struggle of man over nature and ferocious space-faring aliens.
Rating: 
Summary: Man Kzin Wars are the best description of The Kzinti race!
Review: After reading a story about the kzin in another book i was compelled to read the Man Kzin Wars to learn more about The Kzinti. I've now read the first six of the seven. I must say i love it! I really like reading about Known Space and I don't mind other authours mingling in with the great Larry Niven. They do a good job. I can recommend these books because they give a very good background about the kzin, but also a very good description of humanity in Known Space. It took me only 2 weeks to read teh first six Man Kzin Wars books
Rating:
Summary: Maintains and improves a great tradition
Review: All the Man-Kzin stories are teriffic and this does not disappoint. Taut action, real charcters and original ideas in all of them. Sad that the story Pele was one of the last by rhe late, great Poul Anderson. I would like to see more illustrations of the very exciting and often weird scense described - for example the confrontation between the old Kzin warrior Raargh and the human woman resistance fighter Jocelyn in the ruined sergeant's mess in His Sergeant's Honour and the desperate ploy of the kzin cub Vaemar to defuse the situation. More please, and soon!
Rating:
Summary: One of Poul Anderson's last stories
Review: Contrary to what an earlier reviewer said, the Poul Anderson story, "Pele" is not OLD. The first and third volumes in the M-K Wars series both had Anderson stories, but this is not one of those. The story previously appeared in an sf magazine (ANALOG, I think) about a year ago, but it is one of the last stories that Anderson wrote before his untimely death. Having corrected that misinformation, I'll say that no book with grand masters Anderson and Niven on board should be missed. And newer writers Chafe and Colebatch are no slouches either.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent read
Review: I enjoyed reading this book, the publisher did a poor job of manufacturing the book, the cover came off and the book came apart prior to finishing the book. The content was excellent however.
Rating:
Summary: A correction to the previous reviewer's ethics!
Review: I have reviewed this book previously but am having a second bite because I am annoyed by the conduct of the previous reviewer. He claims, apparently trying to dam the dialogue, there is a phrase: "As you known, Raargh Sergeant, we Wunderkzin ..." No such phrase occurs in the book. A human says to a Kzin born on Wunderland "We sometimes call you Wunderkzin ..." I suggest that if the reviewer wishes to pick holes in the style of a particular story he quote the actual words he complains of and not something he has invented. I believe this is related to a thing called ethics, you know, like honesty and truthfulness. And all thes stories in the book are teriffic! Scream and Leap!
Rating:
Summary: A correction to the previous reviewer's ethics!
Review: I have reviewed this book previously but am having a second bite because I am annoyed by the conduct of the previous reviewer. He claims, apparently trying to dam the dialogue, there is a phrase: "As you known, Raargh Sergeant, we Wunderkzin ..." No such phrase occurs in the book. A human says to a Kzin born on Wunderland "We sometimes call you Wunderkzin ..." I suggest that if the reviewer wishes to pick holes in the style of a particular story he quote the actual words he complains of and not something he has invented. I believe this is related to a thing called ethics, you know, like honesty and truthfulness. And all thes stories in the book are teriffic! Scream and Leap!
Rating:
Summary: Man Meets his Match!
Review: I have to warn readers of this novel! You will become addicted! Prepare yourself to buy all books in the Man Kzin war series! Humankind is still in the infancy of type 2 civilization and is still lumbering around in Reaction Mass Relativistic Starships, not having discovered how to manipulate gravity yet. At least we have learned to control our own predatory inclination toward war. Or so we thought. In the middle of nowhere, humans encounter a technological race. Assumptions about star faring civilizations nearly cost us our hides, literally. The Kzin are not only aggressive, they are carnivorous. Man learns war all over. Larry Niven uses the concept of parallel evolution to create a world in which the Great Cats, not primates, evolve into intelligence. The Kzin bring back the ancient battle between primitive man and the saber tooth. and the excitement of the hunt.. Only this time the cat has Gravity Polarizer starships! This novel is only the beginning of the fun! read on! Niven does not use a progressive time line in his novels. These are individual, albeit connected stories of the Man Kzin Wars. The characters might or might not know or associate with one another, and the series encompasses long periods of time. But once you read the first book, and get hooked on the rest, You will never look at kitty the same way again!
Rating:
Summary: Excellent book.
Review: I've read every book in the Man-Kzin wars and they just keep getting better with each book. I finished this last book within a couple of days and loved the detail and longer refferences to the kzin side of the story. I've noticed with each book there has been less war and more cooperation between humans and the kzin but that is because most of the kzin are being killed off with each war and the remaining ones are learning to think before they leap.:) I recommend this book to everyone.
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