The man-kzin Wars is both the name of a series of military science fiction anthologies as well as the name of the first book in the series. The short stories detail the eponymous conflicts between Mankind and the Kzinti The first story is set in man-kzin wars, a shared universe. The kzinti, fast technical superiority including gravity drives, telepath, and a large military Empire detect human colonizationship in deep space after the telepath learns that humans were unarmed and didn't even understand the concept of weapons, they attempted to kill the human crew in a slow painful manner using an inductive heat and weapon hoping to capture the shift intact for intelligence purposes. However one of the humans use the ship's powerful drive system which doubled as an Interstellar Communications laser as a weapon and destroyed their ship beginning the first war. The crew then warned Earth of the warlike aliens although the Transmissions were initially dismissed as an outbreak of psychosis. Then a smaller encounter between another human ship and the vessel led to the destruction of more primitive human humans. However one of the human prisoners with the aid of a rogue telepath was able to escape and worn them of the danger of the increase in penetration in space. This is just a small collection of the whole series. The series started in 1966 and the latest volume was released in 2019

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