A vast alien landscape and a human culture based on our own, yet evolved in strange and wondrous ways by the forces of an inimical nature provide a panoramic backdrop for the romantic adventures of a large cast of memorable and attractive characters.Won Compton Crook Award for best first novel in 1983.Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1983.The UK edition was entitled Geta.

Three short novels by Donald Kingsbury, Mark O. Martin, and Gregory Benford chronicle the continuing battle for supremacy between the humans of Earth and the lethal felines of Kzin. Original.