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There Will Be War

In the beginning spears were "high-tech", and the most that one weapon could accomplish at one time was one death. But millennia passed and techniques improved. By the time of the Romans a lucky bolt might impale a file of infantry. By the dreadful 20th century the very existence of the race — we still were earth-bound, then — was at risk. But somehow, even though the weapons grew ever more terrible, that risk was averted and humanity gained first the planets and then the stars. And still the weapons grew, until the very universe has cause to fear the wrath of Man...

Contents:

Reflex by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Spanish Man's Grave by James Warner Bellah

Marius by Poul Anderson

The Threat by Advisory Commission

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

A Death in Realtime by R.S. McEnroe

Overdose by Spider Robinson

Saul's Death by Joe Haldeman

High Frontier by Robert A. Heinlein and Lt. General Daniel Graham

Two Poems by Jon Post

Diasporah by W.R. Yates

His Truth Goes Marching On by Jerry Pournelle

THOR by Weapons Committee of the Citizens' Advisory Coucil on National Space Policy

The Defenders by Philip K. Dick

Unlimited Warfare by Hayford Pierce

The Battle by Robert Sheckley

Military Virtue by Jerry Pournelle

Ranks of Bronze by David Drake

I Am Nothing by Eric Frank Russell

Call Him Lord by Gordon R. Dickson

Quiet Village by David McDaniel

Strategy of Technology by Jerry Pournelle

Widow's Party by Rudyard Kipling

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 352
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780523485553
  • Genres
  • fiction, anthologies
  • Release date
  • 1983