After Armageddon (There Will Be War, Vol. 9) [Paperback]

Jerry Pournelle (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1990

The world destroyed - or reborn?

It's a perilous new world out there, following the Final Trump. Mutants and mendicants prowl the ruins. Strange new powers arise to challenge the huddled survivors for dominion over the broken land. Underground amidst their hoarded goods, survivalists scheme to bring back the dead past, while above, in the bleeding aftermath, only one thing is certain:

There will be more war - as the evil conspire, the brave make their stand, and the strong survive.

The newest chapter in Jerry Pournelle's vision of humanity's splendid and terrible future - an unforgettable tour of a world reborn to fight another day.

Contents:

Kenyons to the Keep! by Jerry Pournelle ... Holo-Caustic by Peter Dillingham ... Collector's Piece by Edward P. Hughes ... Half the Battle by Harry Turtledove ... Only the Strong Survive by F.G. Wyllis ... The Last Cruise of the Zeppelin Tempest by J.P. Boyd ... The Future of the Great Powers by Alan Brown ... The Voice of the Cockroach by Leslie Fish ... Song of the Red War-Boat by Rudyard Kipling ... Primum Non Nocere by Paul Edwards ... Horatius at the Bridge by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay ... Fear and Survival by Reginald Bretnor ... The Berendt Conversion by John Brunner ... The Contract by Don Hawthorne ... The Bodyguard by Vernon W. Glasser ... The Palace at Midnight by Robert Silverberg ... Wintergate II: The War of the Worlds by Russell Seitz ... Torch by Christopher Anvil ... Bringing Home the Bacon by Eric Oppen... Journals of the Plague Years by Norman Spinrad ... This is Volume IX in There Will Be War Series.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Tor Books; First Edition edition (March 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812549678
• ISBN-13: 978-0812549676
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,391,436 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

A.L. Brown is a New England based part-time author of science fiction stories. His stories are inspired by the adventures of a lifetime; his military background, his academic pursuits, and his love of music, especially the variety found in Irish pubs around the world.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Humanity survives after disaster with no change in behavior, March 8, 2003

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: After Armageddon (There Will Be War, Vol. 9) (Paperback)

I started reading the "There Will Be War" series edited by Jerry Pournelle when it first was published in paperback back in the early 1980's and enjoyed them very much. However, even then the political, social and economic commentaries tended to rub me the wrong way. I always believed that the science fiction stories were so good that including anything else was a detriment to the collection. Science fiction is such a broad subject that it is possible to include any social or political commentary that you want. Now that the "mighty" Soviet Union has collapsed of its' own weight and proven to be nowhere near the dangerous powerhouse claimed by intense conservatives, stories about the Soviet threat are interesting only from a historical perspective.
The science fiction stories in this book are excellent, although somewhat depressing. All start from the major premise that a planet-altering catastrophe has occurred and the survivors are trying to rebuild society. Of course, human nature gets in the way and groups are fighting over the remaining resources, with greed, jealousy and all other emotions sometimes winning out over group survival. Nevertheless, there is an undercurrent of optimism, as there will always be some who are idealistic enough to band together and construct a new civilization from the trash of the previous one.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Although I'm prejudiced, I like this series for good reasons, August 3, 1999

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Eric Oppen (Iowa Falls, IA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: After Armageddon (There Will Be War, Vol. 9) (Paperback)

This series marked the first time that I attained the Nirvana known only by those who've had their fiction published professionally, thanks to John Carr's patience with me and his willingness to see potential in my work. Despite this, I think I'm objective enough to rate this book, and the series, fairly. Like all anthologies, it's uneven, and marked heavily by the editors' own beliefs. Still and all, for those in search of good military SF in short story form, as well as non-fiction articles on the subject, picking this whole series up is a good idea.