Ahhh NPR... That explains a lot! I guess its why this book didn't make the list:
hehehehe
3 “authors”! Ah, that’s real litter-a-chew-rrr!
Once upon a time, in the earliest days of interplanetary exploration, an unarmed human vessel was set upon by a warship from the planet Kzin. But the Kzinti learned the hard way that the reason humanity had given up war was that they were so very, very good at it.