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• After Armageddon: New Beginnings • [New Beginnings] • (1978) • essay by Jerry Pournelle (variant of New Beginnings: If Only We Could Start Over ...) [as by J. E. Pournelle]
• Preface to the 2016 edition (There Will Be War Volume IX) • essay by Jerry Pournelle
• Kenyons to the Keep! • (1990) • novelette by Jerry Pournelle
• Holo-Caustic • (1989) • poem by Peter Dillingham
• Collector's Piece • [Barley Cross] • (1990) • novelette by Edward P. Hughes
• Half the Battle • (1990) • short fiction by Harry Turtledove
• Only the Strong Survive • (1990) • short story by F. G. Wyllis
• The Last Cruise of the Zeppelin Tempest • (1990) • novelette by J. P. Boyd
• The Future of the Great Powers • (1990) • essay by Alan Brown
• The Voice of the Cockroach • (1990) • novella by Leslie Fish
• Song of the Red War-Boat • (1910) • poem by Rudyard Kipling
• Primum Non Nocere • (1990) • short story by Paul Edwards
• Horatius at the Bridge • poem by Thomas Babington Macaulay [as by Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay]
• Fear and Survival • (1986) • essay by Reginald Bretnor
• The Berendt Conversion • (1975) • short story by John Brunner
• The Contract • (1990) • novelette by Don Hawthorne
• The Bodyguard • (1951) • novelette by Vernon Glasser [as by Vernon W. Glasser]
• The Palace at Midnight • (1981) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• Wintergate II: The War of the Worlds • (1990) • essay by Russell Seitz
• Torch • (1957) • short story by Christopher Anvil
• Bringing Home the Bacon • (1990) • short story by Eric Oppen
• Journals of the Plague Years • (1988) • novella by Norman Spinrad
• Afterward (After Armageddon) • (1990) • essay by Jerry Pournelle [as by J. E. Pournelle]