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Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War

Created by Larry Niven

Cover art by Stephen Hickman

Published by Baen Books

In the tenth volume of the Man-Kzin Wars series, Hal Colebatch takes a grim look at just what happened on Wunderland when the feline Kzin came a-conquering. But along with the grimness one also finds hope, in stories of a time afterward, when humans and Kzin have found an accomodation and live together, albeit uneasily.

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Explorer by C. J. Cherryh

Cover art by Michael Whelan

Published by Daw Books

In the latest volume of the series begun in Foreigner, the combined human-atevi mission to Reunion Station must find a way of defusing a delicate situation. Everything rests upon the shoulders of the ambassador Bren Cameron, who must unravel yet another alien language, full of assumptions that grow from hardwired differences in neuropsychology.

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Here is the complete list of all science fiction and fantasy books reviewed on this site. They may be purchased through Amazon.com. All are directly linked for your convenience.

Buzz Aldrin

• The Return (with John Barnes)
• Encounter with Tiber (with John Barnes)

Aaron Allston

• Doc Sidhe

Kevin J. Anderson

• Dune: House Atreides (with Brian Herbert, in the universe of Frank Herbert)

Isaac Asimov

• The Caves of Steel
• The Naked Sun
• The Robots of Dawn
• Foundation
• Foundation and Empire
• Second Foundation
• Foundation's Edge

Margaret Atwood

• The Handmaid's Tale

John Barnes

• The Return (with Buzz Aldrin)
• Encounter With Tiber (with Buzz Aldrin)

Alfred Bester

• The Stars My Destination

Michael Bishop

• Unicorn Mountain

Marion Zimmer Bradley

• Darkover Landfall
• The Shattered Chain
• The Forbidden Tower
• Stormqueen
• Sharra's Exile
• Hawkmistress
• Thendara House
• City of Sorcery
• Rediscovery
• Exile's Song
• The Shadow Matrix
• Traitor's Sun
• The Inheritor
• Sword and Sorceress XV (ed.)
• Sword and Sorceress XVI (ed.)
• Sword and Sorceress XVII (ed.)

David Brin

• Sundiver
• Startide Rising
• The Uplift War
• Infinity's Shore
• Heaven's Reach

Terry Brooks

• The Phantom Menace

Orson Scott Card

• Seventh Son
• Red Prophet
• Prentice Alvin
• Alvin Journeyman
• Heartfire

Jack Chalker

• Midnight at the Well of Souls
• Exiles at the Well of Souls
• Quest for theWell of Souls
• The Return of Nathan Brazil
• Twilight at the Well of Souls

C. J. Cherryh

• Gate of Ivrel
• Well of Shiuan
• Fires of Azeroth
• Cuckoo's Egg
• Serpent's Reach
• 40,000 in Gehenna
• Cyteen
• The Faded Sun Trilogy
• Precursor
• Defender
• Explorer

Ellen Datlow

• Snow White, Blood Red (ed. with Terri Windling)
• Black Thorn, White Rose (ed. with Terri Windling)
• Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (ed with Terri Windling)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Eighth Annual Collection (ed. with Terri Windling)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Ninth Annual Collection (ed. with Terri Windling)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Twelfth Annual Collection (ed. with Terri Windling)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Thirteenth Annual Collection (ed. with Terri Windling)

Debra Doyle

• The Price of the Stars (with James D. Macdonald)
• Starpilot's Grave (with James D. Macdonald)
• By Honor Betray'd (with James D. Macdonald)
• The Gathering Flame (with James D. Macdonald)
• The Long Hunt (with James D. Macdonald)
• The Stars Asunder (with James D. Macdonald)
• A Working of Stars (with James D. Macdonald)

Gardner Dozois

• The Year's Best Science Fiction, Fourteenth Annual Collection (ed.)
• The Year's Best Science Fiction, Sixteenth Annual Collection (ed.)

David Drake

• The Butcher's Bill
• The Tank Lords
• Caught in the Crossfire
• The Sharp End
• With the Lightnings
• Lt. Leary Commanding
• Patriots
• The Chosen (with S.M. Stirling)
• The Reformer (with S.M. Stirling)
• The Tyrant (with Eric Flint)
• An Oblique Approach (with Eric Flint)
• In the Heart of Darkness (with Eric Flint)
• Destiny's Shield (with Eric Flint)
• Fortune's Stroke (with Eric Flint)
• The Tide of Victory (with Eric Flint)

Richard Dreyfuss

• The Two Georges (with Harry Turtledove)

Rosemary Edghill

• The Shadow of Albion (with Andre Norton)
• Leopard in Exile (with Andre Norton)

Eric Flint

• Mother of Demons
• 1632
• 1633 (with David Weber)
• Ring of Fire
• The Tyrant (with David Drake)
• An Oblique Approach (with David Drake)
• In the Heart of Darkness (with David Drake)
• Destiny's Shield (with David Drake)
• Fortune's Stroke (with David Drake)
• The Tide of Victory (with David Drake)
• Rats, Bats and Vats (with Dave Freer)

Michael Flynn

• Fallen Angels (with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle)

Karen Wynn Fonstad

• The Atlas of Middle Earth

Robert Foster

• The Complete Guide to Middle Earth

Dave Freer

• Rats, Bats and Vats (with Eric Flint)

Carolyn Ives Gilman

• Halfway Human

James E Gunn

• Starbridge (with Jack Williamson)

Harry Harrison

• Stars and Stripes Forever

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• Starlight 2

Robert A Heinlein

• Citizen of the Galaxy
• The Rolling Stones
• Between Planets
• Have Spacesuit, Will Travel
• Stranger in a Strange Land (Hugo Award winner)
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Hugo Award winner)
• Starship Troopers (Hugo Award winner)
• The Man Who Sold the Moon
• To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Brian Herbert

• Dune: House Atreides (with Kevin J. Anderson, in the universe of Frank Herbert)

Frank Herbert

• Dune(Hugo and Nebula Award winner)
• Dune Messiah
• Children of Dune
• God Emperor of Dune
• Heretics of Dune
• Chapterhouse Dune
• Dune: House Atreides (written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, in his universe)

James P. Hogan

• Cradle of Saturn
• The Anguished Dawn

Gregory Keyes

• Newton's Cannon
• A Calculus of Angels
• Empire of Unreason
• The Shadows of God

Tom Kratman

• A State of Disobedience

Ursula Le Guin

• Rocannon's World
• The Left Hand of Darkness
• The Dispossessed
• City of Illusion
• Four Ways to Forgiveness
• The Telling

Lois Lowry

• The Giver(Newberry Award winner)

R. A. MacAvoy

• The Third Eagle

James D. Macdonald

• The Price of the Stars (with Debra Doyle)
• Starpilot's Grave (with Debra Doyle)
• By Honor Betray'd (with Debra Doyle)
• The Gathering Flame (with Debra Doyle)
• The Long Hunt (with Debra Doyle)
• The Stars Asunder (with Debra Doyle)
• A Working of Stars (with Debra Doyle)

Anne McCaffrey

• Dragonflight
• Dragonquest
• The White Dragon
• Dragonsong
• Dragonsinger
• Dragondrums
• Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern
• Nerilka's Story
• Dragonsdawn
• Renegades of Pern
• All the Weyrs of Pern
• The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall
• The Dolphins of Pern
• Dragonseye
• The Masterharper of Pern
• The Skies of Pern
• Restoree
• Nimisha's Ship
• The City Who Fought (with S.M. Stirling)

Vonda N. McIntyre

• The Moon and the Sun(Nebula Award Winner)

Vera Nazarian

• Dreams of the Compass Rose

Larry Niven

• Fallen Angels (with Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn)
• Ringworld
• Destiny's Road
• Rainbow Mars
• Man-Kzin Wars IX
• Man-Kzin Wars X

Andre Norton

• Warlock (omnibus edition)
• Derelict for Trade (with Sherwood Smith)
• A Mind for Trade (with Sherwood Smith)
• Echoes in Time (with Sherwood Smith)
• Shadow of Albion (with Rosemary Edghill)
• Leopard in Exile (with Rosemary Edghill)

Jerry Pournelle

• Fallen Angels (with Larry Niven and Michael Flynn)

John Ringo

• A Hymn Before Battle
• Gust Front
• When the Devil Dances
• Hell's Faire
• March Upcountry (with David Weber)
• March to the Sea (with David Weber)
• March to the Stars (with David Weber)

Christopher Rowley

• Starhammer
• The Vang: The Military Form

J. K. Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

• The Disappeared

James. M. Schmitz

• Telzey Amberdon
• TnT: Telzey Amberdon and Trigger Argee Together
• Trigger and Friends
• The Hub: Dangerous Territory

Sherwood Smith

• Crown Duel
• Court Duel
• Wren to the Rescue
• Wren's Quest
• Wren's War
• The Phoenix in Flight (with Dave Trowbridge)
• Ruler of Naught (with Dave Trowbridge)
• A Prison Unsought (with Dave Trowbridge)
• The Rifters' Covenant (with Dave Trowbridge)
• The Thrones of Kronos (with Dave Trowbridge)
• Derelict for Trade (with Andre Norton)
• A Mind for Trade (with Andre Norton)
• Echoes in Time (with Andre Norton)

S.M. Stirling

• Marching Through Georgia
• Under the Yoke
• The Stone Dogs
• The Domination (omnibus edition)
• Drakon
• Drakas! (editor)
• Island in the Sea of Time
• Against the Tide of Years
• On the Oceans of Eternity
• The Chosen (with David Drake)
• The Reformer (with David Drake)
• The City Who Fought(with Anne McCaffrey)
• The Ship Avenged

Sherri S. Tepper

• Grass

J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Hobbit
• The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Two Towers
• The Return of the King
• The Silmarillion (with Christopher Tolkien, editor)
• Unfinished Tales (with Christopher Tolkien, editor)
• The Book of Lost Tales, Part One (with Christopher Tolkien, editor)
• The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two (with Christopher Tolkien, editor)
• the Lays of Beleriand (with Christopher Tolkien, editor)
• The Shaping of Middle Earth (with Christopher Tolkien, editor)
• The Lost Road (with Christopher Tolkien, editor)
• The Return of the Shadow (with Christopher Tolkien, editor)
• The Treason of Isengard (with Christopher Tolkien, editor)
• The War of the Ring (with Christopher Tolkien, editor)
• Sauron Defeated (with Christopher Tolkien, editor)
• Morgoth's Ring (with Christopher Tolkien, editor)
• The War of the Jewels (with Christopher Tolkien, editor)
• The Peoples of Middle Earth (with Christopher Tolkien, editor)

Christopher Tolkien

• The Silmarillion (ed. with J.R.R. Tolkien)
• Unfinished Tales (ed with J.R.R. Tolkien)
• The Book of Lost Tales, Part One (ed. with J.R.R. Tolkien)
• The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two (ed. with J.R.R. Tolkien)
• the Lays of Beleriand (ed. with J.R.R. Tolkien)
• The Shaping of Middle Earth (ed. with J.R.R. Tolkien)
• The Lost Road (ed. with J.R.R. Tolkien)
• The Return of the Shadow (ed. with J.R.R. Tolkien)
• The Treason of Isengard (ed. with J.R.R. Tolkien)
• The War of the Ring (ed. with J.R.R. Tolkien)
• Sauron Defeated (ed. with J.R.R. Tolkien)
• Morgoth's Ring (ed. with J.R.R. Tolkien)
• The War of the Jewels (ed. with J.R.R. Tolkien)
• The Peoples of Middle Earth (ed. with J.R.R. Tolkien)

Dave Trowbridge

• The Phoenix in Flight (with Sherwood Smith)
• Ruler of Naught (with Sherwood Smith)
• A Prison Unsought (with Sherwood Smith)
• The Rifters' Covenant (with Sherwood Smith)
• The Thrones of Kronos (with Sherwood Smith)

Harry Turtledove

• Alternate Generals II (editor)
• The Two Georges (with Richard Dreyfuss)
• How Few Remain
• Great War: American Front
• Great War: Walk in Hell
• Great War: Breakthroughs
• American Empire: Blood and Iron
• American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold
• WorldWar:In the Balance
• WorldWar: Upsetting the Balance
• WorldWar: Tilting the Balance
• WorldWar: Striking the Balance
• Colonization: Second Contact
• Colonization: Down to Earth
• Colonization: Aftershocks
• A World of Difference

John Varley

• Titan
• Wizard
• Demon
• Steel Beach

Katie Waitman

• The Merro Tree

David Weber

• On Basilisk Station
• The Honor of the Queen
• The Short, Victorious War
• Field of Dishonor
• Flag in Exile
• Honor Among Enemies
• In Enemy Hands
• Echoes of Honor
• Ashes of Victory
• War of Honor
• More than Honor
• Worlds of Honor
• Changer of Worlds
• Service of the Sword
• March Upcountry (with John Ringo)
• March to the Sea (with John Ringo)
• March to the Stars (with John Ringo)
• 1633 (with Eric Flint)

Walter Jon Williams

• Metropolitan
• City on Fire
• The Rift

Jack Williamson

• Starbridge (with James E Gunn)

Robert Charles Wilson

• The Chronoliths

Terri Windling

• Snow White, Blood Red (ed. with Ellen Datlow)
• Black Thorn, White Rose (ed. with Ellen Datlow)
• Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (ed with Ellen Datlow)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Eighth Annual Collection (ed. with Ellen Datlow)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Ninth Annual Collection (ed with Ellen Datlow)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Twelfth Annual Collection (ed. with Ellen Datlow)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Thirteenth Annual Collection (ed. with Ellen Datlow)

Jane Yolen

• The Books of the Great Alta
• The One-Armed Queen
• Dragon's Blood
• Heart's Blood
• A Sending of Dragons

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