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Information on John F. Carr's Writing Career

Education:

    San Diego State University, Bachelor of Arts in History and Psychology with minors in English and Sociology and a Secondary Teaching Credential.  1965 - 1972

Published Books written by Carr or including his writing in edited volumes:

bulletOphidian Conspiracy 1975
bulletPain Gain 1976
bulletCarnifex Mardi Gras 1982
bulletGreat Kings' War (with Roland Green) 1985
bulletKalvan Kingmaker 2001
bulletSiege of Tarr-Hostigos 2004
bulletGreat Kings' War (revised edition) 2006
bullet War World: The Battle of Sauron (with Don Hawthorne) 2007
bullet H. Beam Piper: A Biography 2008
bulletThe Fireseed Wars 2009
bulletWar World: Discovery 2010
bulletWar World: Takeover 2011
bullet The Last Space Viking (with Mike Robertson) 2011
bulletSpace Viking's Throne 2012
bulletGunpowder God 2012
bullet Rainbow Run (with Camden Benares) 2012
bullet War World: The Lidless Eye (with Don Hawthorne) 2013
War World: Cyborg Revolt (with Don Hawthorne) 2013
War World Jihad (with Don Hawthorne, et al.) 2013
The Merlin Gambit (with Dietmar Wehr) 2014
The Ophidian Conspiracy 2015
The Hos-Blethan Affair (with Wolfgang Diehr) 2015
War World: The Burning Eye (with Jerry E. Pournelle) 2016
The Fuzzy Conundrum (with Wolfgang Diehr) 2016
War World: The Patriotic Wars 2017
Paratime Trouble 2017
Rise of the Terran Federation (with H. Beam Piper) 2017
Down Styphon! 2018
War World: Falkenburg's Regiment 2018
Paratime Parasites (with H. Beam Piper) 2019
Paratime Wars 2020
War World: The Fall of the CoDominium 2020
The Way of the Sword-Worlds (with Mike Robertson) 2021
War World: Road Warriors 2022
War World Concordance (with Doug McElwain) 2022
War World: The Falkenbery Protectorate (with Mark Moeser) 2023
 
 
 
 

Unpublished Works:

    The John F. Carr Collection holds a number of unpublished stories and novels by John F. Carr.  Several of these works were written in collaboration with other authors.  Camden Benares, who co-wrote several stories with Carr, has several items related to him included in this collection.

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   "The Belly River Riddle" by John F. Carr

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   "Crying Clown Celebration" by John F. Carr and Camden Benares

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   "Dance of the Dwarves: Part Three - The Year of the Clown" by John F. Carr

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   "Eastern Passage" by John F. Carr and Camden Benares

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   "Labyrinth of Damour" by John F. Carr

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   "Our Lady Marilyn" by John F. Carr and Camden Benares

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   "The Pie-Eyed Piper of Hamline House" by John F. Carr

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   "Science Fiction as Viewed from Down Under" by John F. Carr

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   "Surface Disturbance" by John F. Carr and Camden Benares

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   "The Transtemporal Man" by John F. Carr

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   Untitled Novel (Circa 1969) by John F. Carr and Fred Longworth

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   "Yellow Matter Custard" by John F. Carr

Anthologies:

    From February 1977 to April 1996 John F. Carr worked for Jerry Pournelle & Associates as Senior Editor.  Working with co-editor Jerry Pournelle, he edited over 25 theme anthologies and short story collections, including the 2001 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award winner, The Survival of Freedom

Anthologies Include

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There Will be War  (9 Volumes)

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War World  (4 numbered Volumes + 2 Novels+ 1 other anthology)

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Imperial Stars (3 Volumes)

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Endless Frontier (4 Volumes)

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Nebula Award Winners Sixteen

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The Science Fiction Yearbook

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Black Holes

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Survival of Freedom

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Far Frontiers

Planned anthologies that were never realized.

Other Material collected for Anthologies

Many of the early volumes of the War World series will reprinted by Final Sword Productions.  The first of these reprints is War Worlds: Beginnings, which John F. Carr is currently working on.

 

    John F. Carr is a recognized authority on the life and works of H. Beam Piper, whose picture is shown to the left.  H. Beam Piper was a well known science fiction writer in the 1950s and 1960s.  John has edited and written the introductions to five H. Beam Piper story collections:

 Federation, Empire, Paratime, The Worlds of H. Beam Piper and The Complete Paratime

 His latest contribution is the long-awaited Piper biography, The Last Cavalier: H. Beam Piper.  The first except of this biography appeared in the January 1988 issue of Analog.  John F. Carr also has written three sequels to H. Beam Piper's Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen.

 

 

 

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