Janissaries III: Storms of Victory

Janissaries III: Storms of Victory is a novel by science fiction authors Jerry Pournelle and Roland J. Green, the third book of Pournelle's Janissaries series. It was originally published in hardcover in 1987, and in paperback in 1988. In 1996 Janissaries: Storms of Victory appeared in a double novel with the second book in the Janissaries series, Janissaries II: Clan and Crown as Tran.

The book continues the adventures of Captain Rick Galloway's Earth-born mercenaries on the plant Tran as they continue to carve out an area of conquest and necessary alliances with Tran's native human population, in order to serve the alien Shalnuksis.

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 (2009) 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 Janissaries IV: Mamelukes). 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."[1] 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 [2].

From his Works in Progress page, and a statement in mail archives, he is not collaborating with anyone on the fourth book. [3]

In response to fan email, Pournelle has posted the first three chapters of Mamelukes on his website.

External links

• Janissaries: Storms of Victory publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database