Fly-By-Night

Publication date: 
2000-10
Publication type: 
Novella
Published: 
Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 200
Setting: 
Known Space: Man-Kzin Wars
I.U.C.: 
K.S. 32 (2660)
Characters: 
Beowulf Shaeffer; Fly-By-Night
Summary: 

Following the events of "Procrustes," Beowulf Shaeffer finds himself onboard a passenger ship, the Odysseus, just as it is being overtaken by Kzinti pirates. Shaeffer is taken prisoner and develops an unusual alliance with a non-practicing Kzinti Telepath called Fly-by-Night and his octopus-like Jotoki slave, Paradoxical.

Notes: 

Beowulf is hijacked in flight

Reprints: 

Man-Kzin Wars IX;
Stars and Gods