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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1981
  • Latest Book:
    November 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Kalvan

Kalvan Kingmaker (Feb-2010)
Siege of Tarr-Hostigos (Jul-2012)

There Will Be War

4 - Day of the Tyrant (1993)

War World

1 - The Burning Eye (Jul-1988)
2 - Discovery (Aug-2010)
3 - Jihad! (Oct-2013)
4 - The Patriotic Wars (Feb-2017)

Book List in Order: 19 titles







  • Kalvan Kingmaker is the 3rd book in the Kalvan Saga, after H. Beam Piper's groundbreaking parallel world's SF novel, Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, and the sequel, Great Kings' War by John F. Carr and Roland Green. The Paratime Police patrol an infinity o...



  • War World: Discovery, edited by John F. Carr, is the 9th book in the on-going War World Saga, which includes 3 novels, the most recent being War World: The Battle of Sauron by John F. Carr & Donald Hawthorne published in 2008. The War World series is...



  • THE LAST SPACE VIKING by John F. Carr & Mike Robertson is a sequel to H. Beam Piper's Space Viking. It takes place about a century after the legendary Lucas Trask first created the League of Civilized Worlds. Lucas Trask’s dreams for a new gala...



  • This new 2nd edition of SIEGE OF TARR-HOSTIGOS has been revised throughout. Siege of Tarr-Hostigos is the fourth book in the Kalvan Saga and begins right after Kalvan Kingmaker upon Kalvan's return from the Trygath and his resounding military success...



  • RAINBOW RUN is a novel of the far future, detailing a world where the normal rules have been turned over, and upside down. When one of its denizens awakens from a stupor, he discovers he's in the Rainbow Room, a triangular room filled with pitfalls w...



  • SPACE VIKING’S THRONE by John F. Carr & Mike Robertson is the concluding sequel to The Last Space Viking, which is set at the end of the First Interregnum of H. Beam Piper’s galaxy spanning Terro-Human Future History. A century after H. Beam ...






  • War World: 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. ...



  • Down Styphon! is the eighth and concluding book in the Kalvan Saga begun by the late H. Beam Piper in 1964.

    After years of war against Great King Kalvan, Styphon’s House’s control over the Five Great Kingdoms is in jeopardy. In Hos-Blet...



  • War World: The Patriotic Wars is a new War World collection of stories featuring the tearing apart of the end of the CoDominium, the Soviet/United States world government that has kept the peace on Earth and throughout human-occupied space for the...



  • The Rise of the Terran Federation is new collection of new and old stories chronicling the rise of H. Beam Piper’s Terran Federation. With story introductions and essays on the establishment of the Federation, this book is the ultimate overview ...



  • Paratime Trouble is a new Paratime Police novel by John F. Carr featuring Verkan Vall and Dalla Hadron. Dalla leads Verkan on a merry chase through Paratime as Verkan -- once again -- attempts to save her bacon! This time she’s searching for the...



  • War World: Falkenberg’s Regiment is a new War World novel, which continues the John Christian Falkenberg story, detailing his adventures and those of the 42nd CoDominium Marines on Haven (War World) and on Churchill, as Falkenberg and Admiral Le...



  • H. Beam Piper's Paratime stories concern the Home Time-Line on First Level, an advanced civilization based on the outcome of Martian colonization of the Earth some 75,000 years ago. The five Paratime levels met with vastly different outcomes, rang...



  • Paratime Parasites contains a new introduction to Paratime, four never before published Paratime stories by John F. Carr and all of H. Beam Piper’s Paratime stories except “Time Crime” and the Lord Kalvan yarns. Newer stories include:“Para...



  • SHORT STORIES BY A MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION! Includes over a dozen stories by SF legend Jerry Pournelle, and remebrances by Pournelle collaborators and admirers.For the better part of five decades, Jerry Pournelle's name has been synonymous with har...



  • Paratime was one of H. Beam Piper's most inspired creations and this collection contains all three of John F. Carr's Paratime Police novelettes featuring Lord Kalvan: Kalvan Kingmaker, Siege at Tarr-Hostigos and the never before published Sea of ...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John F. Carr has published 19 books.

John F. Carr does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Paratime Wars, was published in November 2020.

The first book by John F. Carr, Survival of Freedom, was published in August 1981.

Yes. John F. Carr has 3 series.