Fly-By-Night
Author:
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