Jerry Pournelle





Jerry Pournelle

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

From the beginning, Pournelle's work has centred around strong military themes. Several books describe the fictional mercenary infantry force known as Falkenberg's Legion. There are strong parallels between these stories and the Childe Cycle mercenary stories by Gordon R. Dickson, as well as Heinlein's Starship Troopers, although Pournelle's work takes far fewer technological leaps than either of these.

Pournelle served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1973.

As of early 2008, Pournelle...more


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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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Average rating: 3.88 · 75,441 ratings · 2,369 reviews · 142 distinct works · Similar authors
Falkenberg's Legion  (Falke...
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 677 ratings — published 1990
Janissaries (Janissaries, #1)
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 558 ratings — published 1979 — 13 editions
Prince of Mercenaries (Falk...
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 458 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions
King Davids Spaceship
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 550 ratings — published 1973 — 8 editions
Prince of Sparta (Falkenber...
by
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 374 ratings — published 1993
Go Tell the Spartans (Falke...
by
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 380 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions
The Mercenary
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 361 ratings — published 1977 — 10 editions
West Of Honor
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 322 ratings — published 1976 — 7 editions
The Prince
by
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
Starswarm
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 267 ratings — published 1998 — 12 editions
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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

“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

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OCTOBER SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which two books move on to the run-off poll for October 2011 SF Book of the Month.

 
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