Bibliography

This bibliography gives a complete list of all published stories set in Jerry Pournelle's "Future History".

Here I have explained all the book abbreviations used in the Timeline (although these are pretty obvious anyway). I also give information on page numbers, in case you have a different edition and are curious about page numbers cited on this site.

CoDominium Stories

"He Fell Into a Dark Hole".
Jerry Pournelle. Does not appear in any Future History volumes.
Originally appeared in Analog, March 1973.
Reprinted in Black Holes (1978, ed. Pournelle).
Reprinted in There Will Be War vol. V (1986, ed. Pournelle).

West of Honor.
1976, 1978. Later absorbed into Falkenberg's Legion (details below).

The Mercenary.
1977. Later absorbed into Falkenberg's Legion (details below).

Falkenberg's Legion.
1990. Abbreviated as "FL".
Jerry Pournelle. Only one version under this title (Baen Books): 432 pages.

• Prologue (pp. 1-12).
  Originally appeared as The Mercenary, prologue.
• Part One, Ch. 1-2 (pp. 15-27): new.
• Part One, Ch. 3 (pp. 28-37).
  Originally appeared as West of Honor prologue.
• Part One, Ch. 4-19 (pp. 38-202).
  Originally appeared as West of Honor Ch. 1-16.
  (This may have appeared in magazine form in 1976?)
• Part Two, Prologue (pp. 205-209): new.
• Part Two, Ch. 1-4 (pp. 210-243).
  Originally appeared as "Peace With Honor", Analog 1971.
  Next appeared as The Mercenary, Ch. 1-4.
• Part Two, Ch. 5-11 (pp. 244-334).
  Originally appeared as "The Mercenary", Analog 1972.
  Next appeared as The Mercenary, Ch. 5-11.
• Part Two, Ch. 12-22 (pp. 335-432).
  Originally appeared as "Sword and Sceptre", Analog 1973.
  Next appeared as The Mercenary, Ch. 12-22.

Prince of Mercenaries.
1989. Abbreviated as "PM".
Jerry Pournelle. Only one version (Baen Books): 338 pages.

• Ch. 3-7, 9-10 (pp. 23-84, 104-129)
  Originally appeared as "Silent Leges" (7 chapters), in Combat SF (ed. Dickson), 1975 (this may be a misprint?); in New Voices in Science Fiction, 1977; and There Will Be War vol. III (ed. Pournelle), 1984.
• Ch. 12-14a (pp. 134-171)
  Originally appeared as "His Truth Goes Marching On", in Combat SF (ed. Dickson), 1975; and There Will Be War vol. I (ed. Pournelle), 1983.
• Ch. 1-2, 8, 11, 14b-27 (pp. 1-22, 85-103, 130-133, 171-338): new.

Go Tell the Spartans.
1991. Abbreviated as "GTS".
Jerry Pournelle and S. M. Stirling. Only one version (Baen Books): 345 pages.

Prince of Sparta.
1993. Abbreviated as "PS".
Jerry Pournelle and S. M. Stirling. Only one version (Baen Books): 383 pages.

The Prince.
2002.
Jerry Pournelle and S. M. Stirling. Only one version (Baen Books / Simon & Schuster): 1151 pages.

The Prince is a combination of all the existing CoDominium stories (except for "He Fell Into a Dark Hole"), plus a few pages of new material. The book is arranged as follows:

  **    This is the final section of Falkenberg's Legion. In The Prince, the section title on page 531 is the original magazine title "Sword and Sceptre", but the title printed at the top of each page is "Prince of Mercenaries".

Second Empire Stories

A Spaceship for the King.
1973. Later absorbed into King David's Spaceship (details below).

King David's Spaceship.
1980. Abbreviated as "KDS".
Jerry Pournelle. There is at least one hardcover edition, and two paperback editions. The Timescape paperback (1981) has maps of Prince Samual's World and Makassar, and is 260 pages. The Baen Books paperback (1987-present) is mapless and is 366 pages; very recent printings may have added the maps.
I have used the Baen edition. To convert my page numbers to the Timescape numbers, multiply by 0.71.

• The first two parts (ch. 1-22) are a revision of A Spaceship for the King. This originally appeared in Analog, late 1971 and early 1972, and was later printed in book form (1973).

The Mote in God's Eye.
1974. Abbreviated as "Mote".
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. There is at least one hardcover edition, and several paperback editions. The Simon and Schuster hardcover (1974) and the Simon and Schuster trade paperback are 537 pages. The Pocket Books paperback has had at least three different covers, but seems to have always been 560 pages.
I have used the Pocket Books edition. To convert my page numbers to the hardcover or trade paperback pages, multiply by 0.925 and add 16; this this shouldn't be more than 3 pages off.

There are a total of three "prequels" to The Mote in God's Eye. These were chopped off of the beginning of the book (on Robert A. Heinlein's recommendation!) They aren't at all bad – Heinlein just thought the book was too long.

• "Motelight". This has since appeared as part of the essay "Building the Mote In God's Eye". Printed in:
  • Galaxy, January 1976;
  • A Step Farther Out (1979, Pournelle);
  • N-Space (1990, Niven).
• "Reflex". Printed in:
  • There Will Be War vol. I (1983, ed. Pournelle).
• Prison camp scene. This was the third piece cut. I don't think it ended up in print (I've looked around for it quite a bit!), but I'm not certain.

Larry Niven later wrote a poem based on "Motelight". This is called "In Memoriam: Howard Grote Littlemead". It appears in Niven's Laws (1984, Niven). This book is hard to find. My copy was published by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, but I don't know if there are other editions as well. (It's worth getting for Niven's essays!)

The Gripping Hand.
1993. Abbreviated as "Hand".
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. There is one hardcover edition, and one paperback edition. The hardcover (1993) is 402 pages long. The Pocket Books paperback is 413 pages long.
I have used the Pocket Books edition. To convert my page numbers to the hardcover pages, multiply by 0.973; this should be at most 1 page off.

• Originally entitled The Mote Around Murcheson's Eye; an excerpt under that title appeared in Niven's Playgrounds of the Mind (Hand part 2 chapter 2) and under the final title at the end of the Pocket Books Mote (Hand part 1 chapter 1).

War World Stories

Virtually all the stories listed have brief prologues. These are not credited, but they seem to have usually been written by the author of the following story. However, this is less certain for the prologues which aren't connected with the stories following them. Furthermore, the first or last tale in several of the volumes is sometimes not credited.

Although each volume prints the stories in chronological order (except for the prologues, and in some cases the first and last stories in the book) the full chronological ordering of these stories is quite complex. For an ordering which mostly avoids breaking individual stories up, see the War World Reading Order document. For full details on the chronology – which requires breaking several stories into pieces – see the complete Timeline.

War World, Volume I: The Burning Eye.
1988. Abbreviated as "WWI".
Created by Jerry Pournelle. Editorial Assistance by John F. Carr and Roland Green. Only one version (Baen Books): 366 pages.

• "Prolog: Discovery". (Unattributed, probably Pournelle, Hawthorne, Stirling, or Carr/Green?)
• "Haven". (Unattributed, possibly Turtledove, Hawthorne, Pournelle, or Carr/Green?)
• "Dream Valley". Edward P. Hughes.
• "The Toymaker and the General". Mike Resnick.
• "The Deserter". Poul Anderson.
• "Rate of Exchange". Roland Green and John F. Carr.
• "The Coming of the Eye". Don Hawthorne.
• "The Great Beer Shortage". Janet Morris and David Drake.
• "Necessity". S. M. Stirling.
• "Tribute Maidens". Harry Turtledove.
• "A Lion to the Sea". John Dalmas.
  [Originally in "Far Frontiers" # 5, Spring 1986.]
• "Discovery". (Unattributed; probably Pournelle or Stirling?)
• "Excerpt from Bar Lev's A Traveler's Tale of Twenty Worlds". (Unattributed; possibly Stirling, Hawthorne, Carr or Green?)

War World, Volume II: Death's Head Rebellion.
1990. Abbreviated as "WWII".
Created by Jerry Pournelle. Editorial Assistance by John F. Carr and Roland Green. Only one version (Baen Books): 403 pages.

• Introduction. (Unattributed; probably Hawthorne or Carr/Green?)
• "The Face of the Enemy". Don Hawthorne.
• "Death's Head Patrol". Roland Greene and John F. Carr.
• "Strong Blood". G. C. Edmondson.
• "Brenda". Larry Niven.
  [Originally in "New Destinies", Spring 1988. Reprinted in "N-Space", Larry Niven, 1990.]
• "Some Things Survive". John LaValley.
• "No Such Thing as a Non-Lethal Weapon". James Landau.
• "Loved Not I Honor More". Martin Tays.
• "The Field of Double Sowing". Harry Turtledove.
  [Later incorporated into "Blood Feuds".]
• "Far Above Rubies". Susan Shwartz.
  [Later incorporated into "Blood Feuds".]
• "Tayok's Base". (Unattributed; probably Turtledove or Shwartz?)

War World, Volume III: Sauron Dominion.
1991. Abbreviated as "WWIII".
Created by Jerry Pournelle. Editorial Assistance by John F. Carr. Only one version (Baen Books): 356 pages.

• "Prologue". (Unattributed; probably Stirling or Carr?)
• "War World Economics". (Unattributed; probably Hawthorne, Shwartz, or Carr?)
• "The Gates of Paradise". Don Hawthorne.
• "Maitreya and the Cyborg". John Dalmas.
• "Building a Pillar". John LaValley.
• "Aegir's Children". Phillip Pournelle.
• "Ceremonies at the Last Bar in the Village". John Hartnett.
• "Juchi the Accursed". Harry Turtledove.
  [Later incorporated into "Blood Feuds".]
• "Seven Against Nûrnen". Susan Shwartz.
  [Later incorporated into "Blood Feuds".]
• "Shame and Honor". S. M. Stirling.

War World, Volume IV: Invasion.
1994. Abbreviated as "WWIV".
Created by Jerry Pournelle. Editorial Assistance by John F. Carr. Only one version (Baen Books): 333 pages.

• "Introduction". Charles E. Gannon.
• "The Railroad". John Dalmas.
• "A Better Kind of War". Don Hawthorne.
• "The Boatswain". Alan Brown.
• "The Gift of the Magi". Charles E. Gannon.
• "A Little Beastliness". Edward P. Hughes.
• "Those Who Lose". Harry Turtledove.
• "Kings Who Die". S. M. Stirling.

CoDominium: Revolt on War World.
1992. Abbreviated as "WWCD".
Created by Jerry Pournelle. Editorial Assistance by John F. Carr. Concept by John F. Carr and E.R. Stewart. Harmony religion designed by E.R. Stewart. Only one version (Baen Books): 396 pages.

• "The Lost and the Founder". (Unattributed – actually by E. R. Stewart.)
• "The Garden Spot". Don Hawthorne.
• "In Concert". E. R. Stewart.
• "Janesfort War". Leslie Fish and Frank Gasperik.
• "The Coming of the Dinneh". John Dalmas.
• "Politics of Melos". Susan Shwartz.
• "Hang Together". Harry Turtledove.
• "Sons of Hawaii". William F. Wu.
• "Fire and Ice". Eric Vinicoff.
• "Farewell to Haven". (Unattributed – probably by Don Hawthorne.)

Blood Feuds: A Novel of War World.
1993. Abbreviated as "WWBF".
S.M. Stirling, Judith Tarr, Susan Shwartz, Harry Turtledove. Created by Jerry Pournelle. Only one version (Baen Books): 551 pages.

• Chapters 1-5 are a combination of "The Field of Double Sowing" and "Far Above Rubies".
• Chapter 6 (after p. 120) is a revision of "Juchi the Accursed".
• Chapters 7-11 contain a greatly revised and expanded version of "Seven Against Nûrnen".
• Much of chapters 6-11, and all of chapters 12-23, are new material.

Blood Vengeance: A Novel of War World.
1994. Abbreviated as "WWBV".
S.M. Stirling, Judith Tarr, Susan Shwartz, Harry Turtledove. Created by Jerry Pournelle. Only one version (Baen Books): 375 pages.

The Battle of Sauron: A Novel of War World.
2007. Abbreviated as "WWBS".
John F. Carr and Don Hawthorne. Only one version (Pequod Press): 444 pages.

• Prologue is new material.
• Chapters 1-9 is a reprinting (slightly revised) of "The Face of the Enemy".
• Chapters 10-31 are entirely new.
• Chapter 32 is entirely new.
• Chapters 33-48 is a combination of "The Coming of the Eye" and new material. (The new material appears on pp. 303-6, 310-15, 325-27, 331-41, 350-55, 357-60, 369-73, 377-82, 385-89, 392-94, 397-401, 404-8, 412-15, 429-33.)
• Epilogue sections i, ii, iii (pp. 435-40) is new.
• Epilogue section iv (pp. 440-42) is a reprinting of "Death's Head Patrol" prologue.
• Epilogue section v (pp. 443-44) is a reprinting of the first two pages of "A Better Kind of War".

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