Madness Has Its Place

Author:

Niven, Larry

Publication date:

1990-08

Publication type:

Short Story

Published:

Man-Kzin Wars III

Opus No.:

177

Setting:

Known Space: Man-Kzin Wars

I.U.C.:

K.S. 19 (2375-83)

Characters:

Jack Strather; Anton Brillov; Phoebe Garrison

Summary:

A Known Space story, first published in Man-Kzin Wars, Vol. III. At the end of "the long peace," the coming of the Kzinti make it clear that perhaps there's a place for Earth's paranoid schizophrenics after all.

Notes:

First Known Space story since The Ringworld Engineers in 1979. Describes Sol's first response to the Kzin invasion

Reprints:

Isaac Asimov's War, ed. Gardner Dozois, Ace 1993;
Man-Kzin Wars: The Best of All Possible Wars, ed. Larry Niven, Baen 1998 Three Books of Known Space;
N-Space