Janissaries series

Janissaries series

A series of military and political-based science fiction novels set in an interstellar confederation of races, in which humans are a slave race entrusted with military affairs and law enforcement, originated by Jerry Pournelle.

Continuation of the series

The ending of this third book in the Janissaries series clearly intends that there will be at least a fourth book. Unfortunately, from 1987 to the present (2006) no such sequel has materialized, and there are numerous complaints about this in the book reviews on Amazon and Pournelle's own web site. Pournelle has chosen to leave his faithful readers and publisher in limbo, although from time to time he has made encouraging remarks in his blog or in answer to mail about progress on the book (the working title is ). His Works in Progress web page, dated September 17, 2004, states that "Mamelukes" is 65,000 words into an ultimate length of 80,000, and that it is "about next on my schedule, after "Burning Tower"." [http://www.jerrypournelle.com/progress.html] Burning Tower came out in 2005 and "Mamelukes" is still not out, although he claims in his blog to be continuing to work on it [http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/view422.html#Saturday] .

From his Works in Progress page, and a statement in mail archives, he is not collaborating with anyone on the fourth book. [http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives/archivesmail/mail24.html#Starswarm]

In response to fan email, Pournelle has posted the first three chapters of Mamelukes on his [http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosreports/mamelukesONE.html website] .


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