jerry pournelle

Greetings. As promised, here is my flowchart for Pournelle's CoDominium series. I hope everyone finds it to be accurate and complete. Later, Mike

Science Fiction Author, Editor and Political Scientist Jerry Pournelle has died on the 8th of this month. In Memoriam: Jerry Pournelle - SFWA

Inferno Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Orb (Tor), Sep 2008, $12.95 ISBN: 0765316765 Renowned popular science-fiction writer Allen Carpentier makes a bet with his fans at a Los Angeles convention. Right out of War and Peace, he sits on the windowsill of a room on the hotel’s eighth floor...

Escape from Hell Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Tor, Feb 2009, $24.95 ISBN: 0765316323 Science fiction writer Allan Carpenter knows he was fortunate to escape from the nine circles of Hell thanks to his guide, Mussolini (see INFERNO). However, returning from the dead does not mean he is...

Fires of Freedom Jerry Pournelle Baen, May 2009, $14.00 ISBN: 9781416591610 “Birth of Fire”. Earth teenager Garrett Pittson was convicted of a homicide he did not commit but his violent past did not help the delinquent. He is given a choice of a life sentence on earth without parole or...

Beowulf’s Children Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes Tor, Aug 2009, $14.99 ISBN: 9780765320889 Upon their arrival on Avalon the Earth Born never fully recovered from the extended hibernation whereas their Star Born children have thrived. The Earth Born have not forgotten their...

I found this great book secondhand recently, and I see that it was nominated for Hugo & Nebula awards in 1976. Anybody here read it? I'm enjoying it very much.

Jerry Pournelle is best known these days as the long-time collaborator of Larry Niven. Together Niven and Pournelle in the 70's and 80's wrote some of the biggest, block-buster SF novels of all time, many of which can be found in this list that I am creating. Pournelle was also well known as...

I can clearly remember that at one particular point in my life when I decided that I loved SF and that I would do my damndest to read as much of it as possible. It was the day that I finished, for the first of many times, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s colonization and biological SF...

Jerry Pournelle, creator of Falkenberg's Legion, the CoDominium universe, and co-author (with Larry Niven) of The Mote in God's Eye, Inferno, Lucifer's Hammer, and Footfall, is undergoing radiation therapy as treatment for a brain tumor. Though I have never agreed with most of Jerry's politics...

Originally by Elaine Frei: Starswarm is the story of Kip Brewster, a boy with a secret. He has a voice in his head. His discovery that this voice, which he calls Gwen, has a perfectly logical explanation, only opens up his life to further, more serious, secrets. From this starting point...

So, if you’re like me, sitting there feeling bitter and nostalgic about the fact that humans aren’t yet living on the moon or Mars or mining the asteroids, what do you do if you’re not a rocket scientist or wealthy enough to pay your way into space? One thing I do is read (and reread) Fallen...

Pournelle, Nivern and Barnes:- Legacy of Heorot Ok, I know its three different authors but they have to fit in somewhere. The book? Its a fantastic story. 200 humans and a ship full of frozen animal embryo's arrive at a planet called Tau Ceti four and set up a base on a small island next to a...

Jerry Pournelle was employed in the space program for 15 years. He is Chairman of the US Citizen's Advisory Council on National Space Policy. He is probably better known for his collaborations with Larry Niven and Steven Barnes which include: 'The Mote in God's Eye', 'Lucifer's Hammer'...