Created by the bestselling SF novelist Jerry Pournelle, THERE WILL BE
WAR is a landmark science fiction anthology series that combines
top-notch military science fiction with factual essays by various
generals and military experts on everything from High Frontier and the
Strategic Defense Initiative to the aftermath of the Vietnam War. It
features some of the greatest military science fiction ever published,
such Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game” in Volume I and Joel Rosenberg’s
“Cincinnatus” in Volume II. Many science fiction greats were featured in
the original nine-volume series, which ran from 1982 to 1990, including
Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Gordon Dickson, Poul
Anderson, Jack Vance, John Brunner, Gregory Benford, Robert Silverberg,
Harry Turtledove, and Ben Bova.
THERE WILL BE WAR Volume IIII is edited by Jerry Pournelle and John
F. Carr, and features 16 stories, articles, and poems. Of particular
note are “Hide and Seek” by Arthur C. Clarke, “The Spectre General” by
Theodore Cogswell, “The Myth of a Liberation” by Truong Nhu Tang, and
“Silent Leges” by Jerry Pournelle.
382 pages, no DRM. It is available at
Amazon and
Castalia House.
THERE WILL BE WAR Volume IV is edited by Jerry Pournelle and John F.
Carr, and features 21 stories, articles, and poems. Of particular note
are “The Cloak and the Staff” by Gordon R. Dickson, “Interim Justice” by
William F. Wu, “Psyops” by Stefan Possony, and “No Truce with Kings” by
Poul Anderson.
378 pages, no DRM. It is available at
Amazon and
Castalia House.
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Excellent.
Thank goodness you post often. Get that gay thing off the front page.
I was disappointed I did not get my email blast as I normally get from Castilia House. (I did check my spam folder)
yep... I didn't get the email either... dammit.
We had a mail server failure. It's still down. We're looking into it.
Damn autocorrect. The new There Will Be War looks good. When will Lt. Col. Kratman be releasing the 7th Carrera book?
"We had a mail server failure. It's still down. We're looking into it."
it must not have been a total failure. 0013 got his... he was rubbing it in on the ATF show.
it must not have been a total failure.
No, the first 130 went out. The remaining 778 did not.
When will Lt. Col. Kratman be releasing the 7th Carrera book?
You'd have to ask Baen Books. We don't publish those.
When will Lt. Col. Kratman be releasing the 7th Carrera book?
More Carrera, please!
But... how can I put this without being deservedly crucified... maybe a little less Hamilcar? He seems like a good kid, but I'm concerned his story arc is going a bit Wesley Crusher.
If Wesley Crusher ever had sex, which I doubt. Wil Wheaton fingered a girl once, but that doesn't count.
Anyway, that's not what's annoying about Hamilcar. It's that he's practically perfect in every way. Which is insufferable in a youngster.
I will forgive him if he nukes the Tauran Union.
#9 Steve
Tell Toni at Baen's Bar. Baen publishes the Carrear series. (FWIW, I agree with you about Hamlicar.)
VFM #0247 - Thanks. I didn't see Vox's comment above till after I posted.
I just got excited when Steve Moss mentioned Carrera.
There Will Be War is pretty damn great. I used to love sci fi anthologies when I was a boy. There Will Be War reminds me why.
Reading them now.
I'm surprised at how much I am recalling after having not read them in almost 30 years
I am reading TWBW IV
I find it interesting, in the light of history, how much Jerry and some others saw the USSR as the evil empire that would destroy poor democratic America if we didn't build this missile system or that defense system.
I also found the comment in one of Jerry's introductions about how much the Soviet Union fills its subjects' minds with propaganda. It seems that the same goes on here in the US.
Thirdly, two of the stories are very much in the vein that humans will be subjugated by aliens and were probably chosen by Jerry because they reminded the readers how the Evil USSR was just waiting to conquer the kind and gentle USA.
Now, I very much enjoyed reading Jerry's other stuff, and found Riding the Red Horse to be very good.
We had a mail server failure. It's still down. We're looking into it.
TOR doesn't like competition and non-SJW publishers, eh?
These are most excellent books. I still have my original paper copies circa 198x/9x, so I don't need to buy them again, but it is very good to know they are available to recommend to others or replace in case of loss.
Whoa, over 900 on the mailing list. Impressive
Picked these up over the weekend. Can't wait to collect them all.
These books are still excellent reads and not just the stories. They are rich with the hopes and fears of the men of that day. The political stuff is still worth reading even though the USSR is tits up.
#13, the other robot
I find it interesting, in the light of history, how much Jerry and some others saw the USSR as the evil empire that would destroy poor democratic America if we didn't build this missile system or that defense system.
And given what we learned of the Soviets after their fall, there was nothing to prove that was not the case.
Mr Pournelle had another influential work called "The Strategy of Technology" written a couple of years earlier. If you're not familiar with it, you should read it. The short of it is, him and his fellow co-authors suggested that the Soviets could be beaten by getting them into a technology race that they could not afford.
Gorbachev has said that one of the main reasons for the fall of the Soviet Empire was their inability to keep up with the pace of technology development. They just couldn't afford it. Yet they had to try to attempt it specifically because of the American missile defence programs that could potentially destroy the delicate balance of power maintained by the MAD doctrine.
Simply put, "The Strategy of Technology" dealt the Soviets a lethal blow they couldn't recover from.
I also found the comment in one of Jerry's introductions about how much the Soviet Union fills its subjects' minds with propaganda. It seems that the same goes on here in the US.
Yes.
Ask any ex Soviets who've emigrated to America, and they'll flat out tell you it's all the same.
It's funny, in a sick and twisted way; the communist countries are becoming more liberal and the democratic countries are becoming more authoritarian.
Interesting time.
It's funny, in a sick and twisted way; the communist countries are becoming more liberal and the democratic countries are becoming more authoritarian.
I think that each defines themselves with respect to the other. The Russians have to be the Anti-Americans and the USA has to be the Anti-Russians.
One of the messages I have gotten from the various There Will Be War books, and perhaps Kratman's books is that: You might not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
That is, if you don't prepare for war you are likely to be wiped out.
Consider the North American Indians. Surely more of them would be alive today if they had prepared for the coming of the Europeans and their diseases.
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