The best of all possible wars : the best of the Man-Kzin wars

it Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time... when The Catlike Kzin Discovered The Human Region Of The Galaxy, They Thought It Was Time To Scream And Leap Again. Bred To Be Conquering Warriors, They Thought The Salad-munching Apes Of Earth Wouldn't Even Put Up A Good Fight. Actually, They Should Have Been More Polite To The Monkey Boys And Girls From Planet Earth. Humans Had Developed A Pacifist Society Because They Had Been Good - too Good - At War And Knew That There's More Than One Way To Skin A Cat - Even A Kzin. The Warrior Race Has Encountered Its Most Formidible Opponent - And Larry Niven's Known Space Is Aflame With War. Invasion seemed like a good idea at the time, but the catlike Kzin should have been polite to those apes from Earth. Humans know that there's more than one way to skin a cat -- even a Kzin. A collection of favorite stories from the first five volumes of the Maz-Kzin Wars series. The catlike Kzin race, bred to be conquerors, believes that the salad-eating ape-humans of planet Earth will be pushovers, until they realize their opponents are pacifists only because they are so good at warfare Contents:The Warriors/by Larry Niven-Madness has its place/by Larry Niven-The Man who would be Kzin/by Greg Bear and S.M.Stirling-In the hall of the mountain king/by Jerry Pournelle and S.M.Stirling. "I'm sure they saw us coming," the Alien-Technologies Officer persisted.