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 Gleasons idea. He persuaded Pournelle; Pournelle persuaded Niven. (And Niven said, "I hope you broke it to him gently that its 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 AmericaFirst Hardcover Edition: May 1985
First Mass-Market Edition: May 1986
Cover Art by Michael Whelan