MKW IV

Guess what just showed up after, we think, a delay by British Customs: Man-Kzin Wars IV. Do I want to read a bunch of other MKW stories by a bunch of other sf writers? Maybe. Maybe not. Time will tell. Time knows a lot of things. He knows that sixty years in the future, in 2020, I will discuss the works of Poul Anderson and other sf writers on a worldwide computer network.

Certain MKW stories are definitely relevant to this blog:

Anderson wrote three;
Pournelle & Stirling wrote three;
those two trilogies interconnect;
Bear & Stirling wrote one, in MKW IV.

So I think that these seven works, at least, are sufficiently connected to Poul Anderson Appreciation for current purposes.

MKW IV comprises:

Introduction by Larry Niven (pp. vii-viii);
"The Survivor" by Donald Kingsbury (pp. 1-244);
"The Man Who Would Be Kzin" by Greg Bear and SM Stirling (pp. 245-311).

So Kingsbury wrote a novel whereas Bear & Stirling did not. Your friendly neighborhood blogger will read Bear's and Stirling's contribution while meanwhile not losing sight of Anderson's time travel in general and Time Patrol in particular.