Sequels And Prequels

Potential Sequels To "Pele"

The Saxtorph's Rover, now avoiding any contact with kzinti, carries freight between the puppeteers' tradepoint and four human planets and has a new crew member called Buck about whom we know nothing else as yet. Thus, either a sequel would fall outside the Man-Kzin Wars franchise or kzinti would be encountered despite attempts to avoid them. We expect Tyra to be married to Craig, living on Earth, and Shayin-Mate to have become Shayin-Captain. Either unforeseen events would bring all these characters back together or, alternatively, new characters could be introduced.

More Generally

I have in my possession:

The Man-Kzin Wars (1988);
Man-Kzin Wars II (1989);
Man-Kzin Wars III (1990);
Man-Kzin Wars V (1992);
Man-Kzin Wars IX (2002).

- and have ordered a copy of Man-Kzin Wars IV (1995).

Thus, I can begin to get a sense of the chronological and other relationships between some parts of the series. In order to begin somewhere, I focus initially just on stories by Anderson, Stirling and Pournelle. Thus, it seems to me as of now and please correct me if I am wrong that:

in the unnumbered opening volume, the first instalment of Anderson's trilogy begins soon after the Liberation of Wunderland;

in II, the first instalment of Pournelle's and Stirling's trilogy begins during the occupation of Wunderland;

III contains Pournelle's and Stirling's second instalment, still set during the occupation, and Anderson's second instalment;

IV contains a solo story by Stirling which I have yet to read;

V contains Pournelle's and Stirling's third instalment, still set during the occupation;

IX contains Anderson's third instalment;

there is more information about the occupation of Wunderland elsewhere in the series.

Obviously, these works could be rearranged into chronological order of fictitious events. Since, unless I have got this wrong, Pournelle and Stirling in their prequels adapt characters and settings introduced by Anderson, I will reread their trilogy next.