Conference noted::sf

    You must be in the UK, unless there was an SF Book Club edition
    by that name.
    
    FUTURE HISTORY was a British omnibus volume containing two of
    Jerry Pournelle's novels, THE MERCENARY and WEST OF HONOR. The
    former is actually cobbled together from some novelettes.
    
    While there aren't any sequels per se, two other novels that
    are set in the same universe, though centuries after the end
    of the Co-Dominium, are KING DAVID'S SPACESHIP (a revision of
    his earlier book A SPACESHIP FOR THE KING) and THE MOTE IN
    GOD'S EYE (co-written by Larry Niven).
    
    There are also some other novelettes set in the Co-Dominium.
    I'll dig up some publication info on those.
    
    By the way, I've changed the title of the topic to reflect the
    subject.
    
    --- jerry

    
    	Thanks for the info.
    	The character that plays the mercenary does he carry on to
    	the other books or do we have to get to know new characters?
    
    	Thanks
    
    	Chris

    re:.2
    
    John Christian Falkenberg appears in a couple of the uncollected
    novelettes, if I can remember correctly, but the other two novels
    I mentioned take place about 7-800 years after the Falkenberg
    stories. At the time of those novels, not only has the Co-Dominium
    fallen apart, but the First Empire of Man has risen and fallen.
    KING DAVID'S SPACESHIP and THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE occur during the
    Second Empire of Man.
    
    --- jerry

    re: .-1
    
    > KING DAVID'S SPACESHIP and THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE occur during the
    > Second Empire of Man.
    
    As a matter of fact, these two novels are almost contemporary: 
    at the end of "Spaceship" the Navy is leaving because "aliens have
    been discovered in Trans-Coalsack sector" (which is what "Mote"
    is about).
    				- HBM

    "Silent Leges"
    	NEW VOICES IN SCIENCE FICTION [VOLUME 1], edited by George
    		R. R. Martin, 1977
    
    	(Falkenberg appears toward the end of the story, but he's
    	 not the main character.)
    
    "His Truth Goes Marching On"
    	COMBAT SF, edited by Gordon R. Dickson, 1975 (Hardcover edition
    		only, doesn't appear in the paperback edition.)
    	THERE WILL BE WAR, edited by Jerry Pournelle, 1983
    
    	(Falkenberg is mentioned, but does not appear.)
    
    "He Fell Into a Dark Hole"
    	ANALOG (March 1973)
    	BLACK HOLES, edited by Jerry Pournelle, 1978
    	WARRIOR [THERE WILL BE WAR, VOL. 5], edited by Pournelle, 1986
    
    
    There is one other item of interest:
    
    "Motelight"
    
    	This is a prologue to THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE which was edited
    	out before publication. It was included within the body of an
    	article entitled "Building the Mote in God's Eye" by Niven and
    	Pournelle, which appeared in the January 1976 issue of GALAXY,
    	as an installment of Pournelle's regular column, "A Step Farther
    	Out".
    
    --- jerry

    re .5 >motelight
    
    I believe this article was included in Pournelles' collection
    also called "A Step Farther Out" - ? a collection of
    articles from the column ?

    I'm pretty sure it was, but my copy of said book is packed away
    somewhere, and I'm too lazy to dig it out.
    
    --- jerry