War World Series by Jerry Pournelle, Don Hawthorne, John Dalmas, John LaValley, Phillip Pournelle, John Hartnett, Harry Turtledove, Susan Shwartz, S.M. Stirling, Judith Tarr

Prolog Haven 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 Discovery Bar-Lev, a traveler's tales of twenty worlds.

Losers in an interstellar war against the rest of humanity, the Saurons come to Haven expecting to find the inhabitants easy prey. But they had not anticipated a mutiny by a sub-group of their own--the-more-than-superhuman cyborgs.

SUMMARY:Cut off from the rest of the Empire, the planet Haven has been bombed back to a pre-tech medievalism by the Sauron--a hideous race of "supermen"--who are now poised to achieve final domination. Features works by Harry Turtledove. Larry Niven, and Pournelle.

When the governments of East and West united as the CoDominium and brought the world under one central control, they needed a dumping ground for criminals, troublemakers and dissidents. The planet Haven was that dumping ground. But now the genetically engineered Sauron supermen have retreated from their attacks on the Empire of Man and have fled to Haven.

The Saurons, genetic super-soldiers, met fierce opposition in Haven's inhabitants, who were shaped by the toughest survivable environment in human space. This is the grim history of Haven, where war has always been a way of life....

The first novel of War World. Three hundred years before, the last of the gene-engineered Soldiers and Cyborgs from the deathworld Sauron came to Haven. To the Saurons, humans were merely cattle--to be raided for tribute and breeding females. Now a new myth comes to Haven. A call to a Holy War that will unite the tribes before the Sauron Citadel--to begin the final bloody struggle to reclaim their world.

Three hundred years ago, the last survivors of the genetically engineered Sauron super warriors arrived on the planet Haven. Since then, the history of Haven has been a horror story, but now old enemies have been united by their hatred of the Sauron overlords, and it just may be possible for the humans to take back their world.This book is a collection of short stores by various authors on this theme.

War World is a future warfare series created by John F. Carr and Jerry Pournelle inspired by the works of H. Beam Piper. The War World volumes include five original short story collections, two novels and are part of Pournelles CoDominium and Empire of Man Future History, spanning several thousand years. War World takes place on a barely-habitable moon named Haven, or War World as it becomes known... moreWar World is a future warfare series created by John F. Carr and Jerry Pournelle inspired by the works of H. Beam Piper. The War World volumes include five original short story collections, two novels and are part of Pournelles CoDominium and Empire of Man Future History, spanning several thousand years. War World takes place on a barely-habitable moon named Haven, or War World as it becomes known. Haven is a hard scrabble world of extreme temperatures, hard radiation, deadly flora and fauna, wastelands and breeds the toughest denizens in human occupied space. "For those of you unfamiliar with the War World series, this volume would be an ideal introduction, since it chronicles the arrival of the Sauron invaders on Haven, a barely habitable moon of a Jovian planet Cat's Eye. It's a space adventure in the mold of H. Beam Piper's work and based on an idea developed by myself and Jerry Pournelle." - John F. CarrThe new novel, "War World: The Battle of Sauron" takes place in the waning days of the First Empire of Man, a future history inspired by Piper's own Terro-Human Future History. Portions of this novel first appeared in War World Vol. I : The Burning Eye and War World Vol. II : Death's Head Rebellion, edited by Jerry E. Pournelle and John F. Carr, published by Baen Books in 1988 and 1989 less

War World: Discovery, edited by John F. Carr, is the 9th book in the on-going War World Saga, which includes 3 novels, the most recent being War World: The Battle of Sauron by John F. Carr & Donald Hawthorne published in 2008. The War World series is a shared-world universe created by Jerry E. Pournelle & John F. Carr and is set in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium/Empire of Man future history... moreWar World: Discovery, edited by John F. Carr, is the 9th book in the on-going War World Saga, which includes 3 novels, the most recent being War World: The Battle of Sauron by John F. Carr & Donald Hawthorne published in 2008. The War World series is a shared-world universe created by Jerry E. Pournelle & John F. Carr and is set in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium/Empire of Man future history. The moon Haven contains the harshest environments for life among the seventy habitable planets within the CoDominium sphere. After Haven's discovery, this distant moon quickly becomes the center of a major lawsuit over its ownership. When the New Church of Universal Harmony buys the Charter, the big mining companies send their agents to find a way to muscle their way in. The Harmonies quickly find themselves on the defensive. Behind the lines, some of the biggest industrial magnates, the Bronson and DeSilva families, are pulling strings to secure rights to strip-mine Haven of its resources and mineral wealth. This battle only intensifies when shimmer stones, the most valuable gems in the known universe, are discovered on Haven. The Bureau of Relocation sees Haven, more than a year's spaceship journey from Earth, as the perfect dumping ground for political dissidents and criminals. Within the CoDominium, there's a fracture between U.S. and Soviet interests; both powers want to use Haven for their own means. Meanwhile, the New Church of Universal Harmony is finding its lands overwhelmed with undesirables from Earth who neither want to work or live a meditative life. This conflict quickly turns violent as the newcomers scheme to steal food and goods from the non-violent Harmonies, who see their culture undergo a major shift to confront the new realities brought by the displaced transportees from Earth. When Kennicott and Dover Mineral Development send their agents to fight over the newly discovered hafnium and shimmer stone deposits, the violence and bloodshed is ratcheted up. Finally, the CoDominium Marines are sent in to save the day-but for whom: the Harmonies, the miners, the convicts, or their puppet masters back on Earth? less