Janissaries III: Storms of Victory is a novel by science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 authors Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Eugene Pournelle is an American science fiction writer, essayist and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte and has since 1998 been maintaining his own website/blog....

 and Roland J. Green

Roland J. Green

Roland James Green is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and editor. He has written as Roland Green and Roland J. Green; and had 28 books in the Richard Blade series published as Jeffrey Lord .- Early life and personal matters :Green was born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, in 1944...

, the third book of Pournelle's Janissaries series

Janissaries series

The Janissaries series of military and political-based science fiction novels are set in an interstellar confederation of races, in which humans are a slave race entrusted with military affairs and law enforcement, written by Jerry Pournelle....

. 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

Janissaries II: Clan and Crown

Janissaries II: Clan and Crown is a novel by science fiction authors Jerry Pournelle and Roland J. Green, the second book of Pournelle's Janissaries series . It was originally published in 1982, and like the first book in the series, was richly illustrated by comics artist Bermejo...

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."http://www.jerrypournelle.com/progress.html Burning Tower

Burning Tower

Burning Tower is a fantasy novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It is a sequel to The Burning City, set some years after that novel concluded. It was published in 2005.-Plot summary:...

came out in 2005 and Mamelukes is still not out, although he claims in his blog to be continuing to work on it http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/view422.html#Saturday.

From his Works in Progress page, and a statement in mail archives, he is not collaborating with anyone on the fourth book. http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives/archivesmail/mail24.html#Starswarm

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