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INCONSTANT STAR

BY

POUL ANDERSON
 The Man-Kzin Wars is created by Larry Niven.

INCONSTANT STAR

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this
book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is
purely coincidental.

Copyright C 1991 by Poul Anderson

The parts of this novel have appeared in The ManKzin Wars


A Baen Books Original

Baen Publishing Enterprises
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ISBN: 0-671-72031-7

Cover art by Larry Elmore

First printing, January 1991

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The kzin screamed and leaped.
In any true gravity field, Robert Saxtorph would have been dead half a
minute later. The body has its wisdom, and his had been schooled through
hard years. Before he really knew that a thunderbolt was coming at him, he
had sprung aside--against the asteroid spin. As his weight dropped, he
thrust a foot once more to drive himself off the deck, strike a wallfront,
recover control over his mass, and bounce to a crouch.
The kzin was clearly not trained for such tricks. He had pounced straight
out of a crosslane, parallel to Tiamat's rotation axis. Coriolis force was
too slight to matter. But instead of his prey, he hit the opposite side of
Ranzau Passage. Pastel plastic cracked under the impact; the metal behind
it boomed. He recovered with the swiftness of his kind, whirled about, and