War World, Volume I: The Burning Eye published in 1988 contains the following short stories:
- "Prolog: Discovery" (unattributed)
- "Haven" (unattributed)
- "Dream Valley" - Edward P. Hughes
- "The Toymaker and the General" - Mike Resnick
- "The Deserter" - Poul Anderson
- "Rate of Exchange" - Roland Green and John F. Carr
- "The Coming of the Eye" - Don Hawthorne
- "The Great Beer Shortage" - Janet Morris and David Drake
- "Necessity" - S.M. Stirling
- "Tribute Maidens" - Harry Turtledove
- "A Lion to the Sea" - John Dalmas
- "Discovery" (unattributed)
- "Excerpt from Bar Lev's A Traveler's Tale of Twenty Worlds" (unattributed)