The best of Jerry Pournelle

Pournelle, Jerry, 1933-2017, author.

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"For the better part of five decades, Jerry Pournelle's name has been synonymous with hard-hitting science fiction. His Falkenberg's Legion stories and Janissaries series helped define the military SF genre, as did his work as editor on the There Will Be War series of anthologies. With frequent collaborator Larry Niven, he co-wrote the genre-defining first contact novel The Mote in God's Eye, which was praised by Robert A. Heinlein as "possibly t...

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Science fiction, American

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ISBN:

9781982125004
1982125004

Description:

759 pages ; 18 cm

Contents:

Introduction: what was Jerry Pournelle really like? / John F. Carr
Ecology now!
Survival with style
Peace with honor
Jerry Pournelle's future history / Larry King
The mercenary
The hospital visit / David Gerrold
Manual of operations
There will be war, volume I: preface
Consort
First patrol
Retrospective / Larry Niven
Spirals /$rwith Larry Niven
Discovery
The science and technology of Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium/Empire of Man universe / Doug McElwain
Reflex / with Larry Niven
Kenyons to the keep
He fell into a dark hole
The secret of Black Ship Island / with Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
Remembering a master of excellence / Steven Barnes
The last shot
Story night at the stronghold / with Larry Niven
The man who owned the future / Robert Gleason

Control Number:

3014006

Other Authors:

Carr, John F., editor

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