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Jerry Pournelle
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August 07, 1933
in Shreveport, The United States
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MOVING DAY
Well, moving weekend. My old ISP, which was operated by Greg Lincoln and
Brian Bilbrey, is closing down. We're moving to a different location, and
this is the weekend for most of the moves.
As a consequence we will be changing formats here. View and Mail will
remain, but just how they look and how they work will change. It will be a
WordPress operation, and a lot of the peculiarities...
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Prince of Mercenaries (Falkenberg's Legion, Book 1)
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1989
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Falkenberg's Legion (Falkenberg's Legion, #2)
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1990
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Janissaries
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1979
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Prince of Sparta (Falkenberg's Legion, Book 4)
by Jerry Pournelle, S.M. Stirling  4.03 avg rating — 237 ratings
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1993
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Go Tell the Spartans (Falkenberg's Legion, Book 3)
by Jerry Pournelle, S.M. Stirling 3.95 avg rating — 241 ratings
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1991
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King Davids Spaceship
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1973
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Starswarm
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1999
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The Prince
by Jerry Pournelle, S.M. Stirling 3.99 avg rating — 148 ratings
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2002
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The Mercenary
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1977
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West Of Honor
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1976
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There Will Be War
(9 books)
by Jerry Pournelle , John F. Carr , Stefan T. Possony, Francis X. Kane, Eric Vinicoff, Don Hawthorne, Peter Dillingham, Reginald Bretnor , more...
3.62 avg rating — 408 ratings
by Jerry Pournelle , John F. Carr , Stefan T. Possony, Francis X. Kane, Eric Vinicoff, Don Hawthorne, Peter Dillingham, Reginald Bretnor , more...
3.62 avg rating — 408 ratings
War World
(9 books)
by Jerry Pournelle , Judith Tarr (Goodreads Author), Susan Shwartz, Harry Turtledove, S.M. Stirling
3.62 avg rating — 297 ratings
by Jerry Pournelle , Judith Tarr (Goodreads Author), Susan Shwartz, Harry Turtledove, S.M. Stirling
3.62 avg rating — 297 ratings
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“We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.”
― Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye
― Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye
“In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]”
― Jerry Pournelle
― Jerry Pournelle
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