An authoritative reference introduces and defines the essential vocabulary of computers and the Internet, with more than one thousand entries, complete with a sample sentence and supplementary notes, that cover everything from operating systems and software applications to networking, the Web, and other aspects of the new digital world. (view table of contents)

Essays discuss programming, specific models of microcomputers, software, peripheral equipment, text editors, and artificial intelligence

Stories depict the struggle for survival on Earth after it is devastated by war, as mutants prowl the ruins and new powers arise to challenge the survivors

Product Description: From the bestselling author of Footfall, The Legacy of Heorot, and Lucifer's Hammer comes Pournelle's most apocalyptic work ever, a sweeping science fiction saga depicting the last days of humankind--in all its excitement and terror.

Product Description: Birth Of Fire is the story of Garrett Pittston, wrongly convicted of murder. Pittston faces a choice: life in prison, or near-slavery on Mars. Under the appalling conditions imposed by those who run the mines from Earth, Pittston and his fellow workers start a revolution to wrest their freedom from the penal colony...read more

Stories and essays deal with the ideal of the individual soldier, from the fearless fighting men of inter-galactic space to the Spartan few who held the pass at Thermopylae against hordes of invading Persians

Product Description: Each an acclaimed author in his own right, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle have collaborated on some of the biggest bestsellers in science fiction history, including the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Footfall, as well as Lucifer's Hammer, Inferno, Oath of Fealty, and The Mote in God's Eye...read more

SF masters relate the story of Haven, a world forever at war, and its inhabitants: the Saurons, militaristic supermen, the Apaches, victims, and the last regiment of Imperial Marines

Burning Tower, the daughter of Wandhall Feathersnake, and her young lover, Younglord Sandry, embark on a perilous quest to uncover the source of the giant, ferocious birds terrorizing Tep's Town, following the trail to a mysterious land ruled by magic and inhabited by the Huitizalatecs, a people who are controlling the birds for their own dark purpose. Reprint.

Stories and essays about the future of war and conflict discuss tank warfare, alternative future histories, weapon systems, and the Soviet Union

A collection of short stories and articles by Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Silverberg, Jerry Pournelle, and others addresses the issue of interstellar colonization

[Read by Keith Szarabajka]The adventure begun in Janissaries continues in Clan and Crown.For the first few years, Rick Galloway and his band of mercenaries were doing well just to survive. They'd been swept off a hilltop in Africa by a flying saucer and deposited on an alien world where the other inhabitants were human - - but from various and unfriendly periods of history, all collected by flying saucer raids. Rick has faced facts: this place is going to be home, permanently. To create a safe society for themselves and the families they are gradually building, they need to do more than just survive; they must convince the others that a unified, peaceful society is better than a collection of warring tribes. Force would not be Rick's chosen method of persuasion, but on a planet where the other dominant culture is one brought straight from ancient Rome, force may be the only way.

Tempered by the forces of evolution to become the greatest survivors of all species, the residents of the Haven battle humans in the years before the coming of the Saurons. Original.

SF masters continue the saga of Haven and the Saurons, the Saurons now faced with rebellion from within

Berkley June 1985