However, John Carr has not only carried on his SF authorship by continuing the adventures of H. Beam Piper’s Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen series, but is now doing the same thing with the War World franchise. After a 2009 release of a new novel—The Battle for Sauron (with co-written with Don Hawthorne)—John is now crafting a new series of War World books that chronologically trace the evolution of the story arc of Haven from its first settlement through to events beyond the last of the already-published stories.

My contribution to the first volume–War World: Discovery —is entitled “Down the Rabid Hole, or, The Report on Lost Colony 4a.” A new narrative piece in the growing mosaic of Haven’s history, it sets the stage for a new post-Invasion story arc set on the planet’s East Continent—where slow-brewing trouble is now bubbling fitfully.

In the 2011 anthology, War World: Take-over, I penned a story entitled “Pound Foolish”. It tells the tale of how the fuel station on the moonlet Ayesha came into exsitance. It happened the hard—and rather disastrous—way, of course, and hence the axiomatic origins of the title: “Penny wise, but pound foolish.”