The Houses of the Kzinti

Jerry Pournelle
S.M. Stirling
Dean Ing

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

Cathouse copyright © 1990 by Dean Ing; The Children's Hour copyright © 1991 by Jerry Pournelle & S.M. Stirling.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pournelle, Jerry, 1933-

The houses of the Kzinti / by Jerry Pournelle, S.M. Stirling & Dean Ing.
p. cm.
"A Baen Books original omnibus"—T.p. verso.
Contents: Cathouse / by Dean Ing — The children's hour / by Jerry Pournelle
& S.M. Stirling.
ISBN 0-7434-3577-X
1. Human-alien encounters—Fiction. 2. Life on other planets—Fiction. 3. Science
fiction, American. I. Ing, Dean. II. Stirling, S.M. III. Ing, Dean. Cathouse. IV.
Pournelle, Jerry, 1933– Children's hour. V. Title.

PS3566.O815 H67 2002
813'.54—dc21
2002028324

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