Series:War World Central

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War World Central is the new War World series that will present War World’s history in a chronological fashion. It will contain both previously published stories as well as brand new stories. The series takes it's name from the War World Central website run by John F. Carr, editor of the new anthologies.

1. War World: Discovery (2010) is the opening volume, and includes five prior War World stories and nine new stories.
2. War World: Takeover is due in Fall 2011, and will include nine new stories as well as two previously published yarns.
   • A special story is included in this book, called "To Win the Peace". As John F. Carr relates in December, 2010:
     "The big War World news is that while going through some old boxes in the basement several months ago I discovered an unfinished story by Frank Gasperik, an old friend and co-author of Janesfort, who passed away on May 3, 2007. Frank Gasperik worked as one of Jerry’s and my editorial assistants at Chaos Manor in the late 1980's and we got to be good friends. While Frank was best known as a songwriter and folksinger, he also appeared as a character in several science fiction novels including Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s Lucifer's Hammer, as Mark Czescu, and in Footfall, as Harry Reddington.
     
     Frank’s unfinished War World story, To Win the Peace, was originally started in the early 1990's and was intended to be the sequel to Janesfort. Unfortunately, Frank’s health problems got in the way of finishing it and the story remained forgotten for two decades until I ran across the incomplete first draft. I immediately contacted his long-time friend and collaborator, Leslie Fish, and she remembered the story well. I asked her if she would finish it as a tribute to Frank and she quickly agreed.
     
     I just got the final version this week and it is a wonderful story. Leslie not only finished the story, but did it so well I was unable to tell where his writing began and hers left off. For all of us who enjoyed Janesfort, this is a real treasure. It will make its first appearance in War World: CoDominium Take-Over."
3. War World: Jihad! is scheduled for Fall 2012.