Madness Has Its Place

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