Treasure Planet
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3.5 • 13 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A thrilling stand-alone novel addition to the long-running, popular Man-Kzin Wars series created by New York Times multiple best seller, Larry Niven.
“Ah, the wealth o’ the treasure planet be beyond the dreams of Man or the hopes o’ Kzin!”
On Wunderland, a generation after Liberation, memories of the bloody kzin conquest and Occupation have faded, and men and kzin live largely in peace. But the fabulous treasure of the kzin pirates, hidden on a distant world, remains a magnet for freebooters. Young Peter Cartwright and his kzinrett friend Marthar receive information and map from a most unlikely source and soon themselves fighting the most ruthless pirates in Known Space for an unimaginable prize.
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About the Man-Kzin War Series:
“[The Man-Kzin Wars series is] excellent . . .gripping . . .and expands well on Larry Niven’s universe. . . .” –Locus
Hal Colebatch is an Australian writer, journalist, editor and lawyer with a wide range of publications. He’s best known in science fiction as a long-time series author in the Man-Kzin War universe, with many appearances in the popular anthologies helmed by Larry Niven. He has created several original characters including Dimity Carmody, Nils Rykerman and Vaemar-Riit.
Jessica Q. Fox is an engineer with a major in stochastic control. She has had four other books published. What the Q stands for is a closely guarded secret.
Customer Reviews
Enjoyable, But ...
I've read all the Man/Kzin fiction - the short stories, the novelettes, and the rare novel. Every one has been blessed with a tight writing style that provided fascinating, believable characters, solid plots, and engaging dialogue. "Treasure Planet" doesn't reach that level, unfortunately. There's nothing wrong with basing the plot on the novel, "Treasure Island;" after all, some really great stories about the Wunderland defense recall the movie "Casablanca." But, the characters and dialogue in this book were almost a caricature of the Treasure Island film in which Robert Newton playing Long John Silver gave us, 'Aharr, matey ! Arrrrr!' Kzin, pirates or no, don't talk that way.
Bad rehash of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island"
Seriously? Did the authors think that anybody who was literate enough to delve into Science Fiction would be so ill-read as to have somehow missed reading a classic like Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island"??? And that tweaking the characters so that there are now Kzinti and tweaking the setting so that it was now in the far off depths of space would somehow make the story original??? To say I'm disgusted at this act of wholesale plagiarism is understating the matter entirely! To have Kzinti speaking English emulating Sylvester the lisping Looney Tunes cartoon cat ("Thufferin' Thuccotash!") using Buccaneers' English is beyond ludicrous: Ye'd have to be utter buffoons, me matey! A total waste of money and Larry Niven should be ashamed at having his name associated with this odiferous, steaming pile of Kzin scat!
Dooty's Dooty
I can grasp the concept of a Kzin space pirate. What I can't understand is why a Kzin would speak like he'd just stepped out of a stroke-survivor cast version of Pirates of the Caribbean. If you can get past the silly speech mannerisms, there's a decent story here. My standard is always whether the Kzin are allowed to be Kzin -- and here, they are treated with that respect. The characters were well-written and allowed to grow. The ending was wrapped up a lot more quickly than I would have liked.
I enjoyed the story and I'd say that if you're a longterm fan, this is one you can put on the shelf. Beginners to the Man-Kzin series are far better off reading "Destiny's Forge" by Paul Chafe, or the Man-Kzin Wars volumes themselves.