The Houses of the Kzinti by Jerry Pournelle; Dean Ing; S. M. Stirling

Author:Jerry Pournelle; Dean Ing; S. M. Stirling
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction - Adventure, Science Fiction - Space Opera, Fiction - Science Fiction, High Tech, Science Fiction - Military, Space Opera, American, General, Science Fiction, Science Fiction - General, Human-Alien Encounters, Adventure, Life on Other Planets, Fiction
ISBN: 9780743435772
Publisher: Baen
Published: 2002-11-30T15:00:00+00:00

—discontinuity—

"Ready for separation, sir," the computer said.

Buford Early grunted. He was alone in the corvette's control room; none of the others had wanted to come out of deepsleep just to sit helplessly and watch their fate decided by chance.

"The kzinti aren't the ones who should be called pussies," he said. Early chuckled softly, enjoying a pun not one human in ten million would have appreciated. Patterns of sunlight crawled across his face from the screens; the Inner Ring was built inside the hull of a captured kzinti corvette, but the UNSN—and the ARM—had stuffed her full of surprises. "I don't know what the youth of today is coming to."

At that he laughed outright; he had been born into a family of the . . . even mentally, he decided not to specify . . . secret path. Born a long, long time ago, longer even than the creaking quasi-androids of the Struldbrug Club would have believed; there were geriatric technologies that the ARM and its masters guarded as closely as the weapons and destabilizing inventions people knew about.

Damn, but I'm glad the Long Peace is over, he mused. It had been far too long, whatever the uppermost leadership thought, although of course he had backed the policy. Besides, there was no real fun in being master in the Country of the Cows; Earthers had gotten just plain boring, however docile.

"Boring this isn't, no jive," he said, watching the disk of Alpha Centauri grow. "About—"

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