War Jihad! is the third volume in a grand reissue of the War World anthologies presenting Haven’s history in a chronological fashion. Jihad! is a trade hardcover and includes seven new stories, a short novel and one previously published yarn. The CoDominium is fraying apart at the seams, and to save itself the Soviet/American coalition is exporting Earth’s problems to the outer worlds, including exiling millions of Earth’s fanatic Muslims on Haven. Nor is this volatile situation helped when off-worlders from Levant arrive to support the rebels with military advisors and advanced weaponry. When Dire Lake dries up, famine and pestilence arrive with a vengeance. The Faithful believe that this is a sign from the time has arrived to overthrow the corrupt CoDominium lackeys and their Company sponsors in the Northern Steppes. So the Mahdi declares a Jihad and warfare breaks out with only a thin blue line between the jihadists and what remains of civilization on Haven. In a last-ditch attempt to save the Haven colony, Admiral Lermontov sends in the 42nd Marines. Will the Marines arrive in time? And if they do, can they stop the jihadists and save the overwhelmed CoDominium Marine garrison at Fort Camerone? Or will they be undone by the Brotherhood and other off-world powers seeking the dissolution of the CoDominium?
I am generally happy with the updated and reissued series Old good memories and new good ones as well . The problem Is John F. Carr Or Fn as my mind refers to him . His ego is huge but his writing talent is small . His stories are full of errors . He swaps sexes and names and histories of characters . His plot lines don't stay aligned from page to page, irrelevant details take way too much space . SKIP the Carr stories and read the others .
Get it. One of the best series of SF I have ever read. Rereading it on Kindle with all but two of the books in my library from when it was published in paperback this series is just plain GOOD!
War World Jihad is an anthology continuation of the future history series developed by Jerry Pournelle and John F Carr. This volume contains several new stories including a new John Christian Falkenberg tale. Every fan of the Codominium future history should own this book.