With other technology far in advance of other species, humanity quickly expanded to other stars conquering the native populations and forming an empire called the Terran Confederacy. While set in the same universe as "The Road Not Taken", it has not been reprinted.Īfter the failed Roxolan invasion, Earth gained knowledge of hyperdrive and contragrav. It was originally published in Analog, October, 1984, and reprinted in Imperial Stars I: The Stars at War, edited by Jerry Pournelle & John F. "Herbig-Haro" is a short story by Harry Turtledove, published under his pen name Eric Iverson. I had to look that one up, here are the research results:įrom the article on the Harry Turtledove Wikia. Radar, radio, computers, fission and fusion - no wonder we spent the next two hundred years conquering." With a chuckle, Chang said, "We must have seemed like angry gods when we finally got the hyperdrive and burst off Terra. And those have much broader applications - the others are only really good for moving things from here to there in a hurry." With attention focused on them, too, work on other things, like electricity and atomics, never gets started. "But trying to explain contragrav and the hyperdrive skews an unsophisticated, developing physics out of shape. What's that race that flew bronze ships because they couldn't smelt iron? And every species we know that reached what the old Terrans would have called a seventeenth-century technological level did what was needed - except us." "No idea - in hindsight they're obvious enough. It was a rude shock when they found that a couple of simple experiments could have given them the key to contragrav and the hyperdrive three, four, even five centuries earlier." (ed note: in the 1500's.) "Back then, on Terra, they knew FTL travel was impossible forever. Know any others? Message #scifi and let your friendly mods know! Imaginary Mindscapes - The Art of Imagination.The Orville (Star Trek Comparisons NOT allowed).The Orville (Star Trek Comparisons allowed).Ghost in the Shell and Ghost_in_the_Shell.Previously interviewed authors in the Ask an SF Author series: To write spoilers in comments, use the following method: (/s "Darth Vader is Yoda's father")Īward Winning SF author Nancy Kress answers questions from the Reddit Scifi Community If you see a title with a spoiler in it, downvote it as hard as you can and then message the moderators. PLEASE DO NOT POST SPOILERS IN YOUR SUBMISSION TITLE. New Rule: This rule was stupid and it's gone.Of particular note are "He Fell Into a Dark Hole" by Jerry Pournelle, "The Interrogation Team" by David Drake, "The Road Not Taken" by Harry Turtledove, and "House of Weapons" by Gordon Dickson.Science Fiction, or Speculative Fiction if you prefer. THERE WILL BE WAR Volume V is edited by Jerry Pournelle and features 21 stories, articles, and poems. Most of the stories, like war itself, remain entirely relevant today. THERE WILL BE WAR is a treasure trove of science fiction and history that will educate and amaze new readers while reminding old ones how much the world has changed over the last three decades. Pournelle to make this classic science fiction series available to the public again. Dick, Gordon Dickson, Poul Anderson, John Brunner, Gregory Benford, Robert Silverberg, Harry Turtledove, and Ben Bova.ģ3 years later, Castalia House has teamed up with Dr. Many science fiction greats were featured in the original nine-volume series, which ran from 1982 to 1990, including Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. It features some of the greatest military science fiction ever published, such Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" in Volume I and Joel Rosenberg's "Cincinnatus" in Volume II. Created by the bestselling SF novelist Jerry Pournelle, THERE WILL BE WAR is a landmark science fiction anthology series that combines top-notch military science fiction with factual essays by various generals and military experts on everything from High Frontier and the Strategic Defense Initiative to the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
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