To Robert Gleason


Acknowledgments

The song "The Battle of Garfield," given as "by David Pfeiffer and Tim Lewis" is copyrighted by Frank Gasperik, and is used with his permission.

Bonnie Dizell helped us design the aliens, and contributed pencil sketches inclluding harness and gun.

The fithp language, and the thuktunthp, emerged during conversations with Bill Weldon and Laurie Reinecke (now Weldon).

Invading the Earth was Bob Gleason’s idea. He persuaded Pournelle; Pournelle persuaded Niven. (And Niven said, "I hope you broke it to him gently that it’s been done!")

A Del Rey Book

Published by Ballantine Books

Copyright © 1985 by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States of America by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New york, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 84-24205

ISBN 0-345-32344-0

Manufactured in the United States of America

First Hardcover Edition: May 1985

First Mass-Market Edition: May 1986

Cover Art by Michael Whelan