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To save ChaosManor and provide ongoing care for Jerry Pournelle's widow, the Estate of Dr. Jerry Pournelle has launched a new website at http://www.jerrypournelle.com/sciencefiction/.
The new site is titled Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor for Science Fiction & Fact and will offer critical review of the author's politics, science, space exploration, philosophy and activism.
The new site includes rare family images, never-before-told stories, updated fan content, an evolving digital museum plus over 50 years of Science Fiction Conventions, exclusive content and essays. The new site is titled Jerry Pournelle's ChaosManor for Science Fiction & Fact. Please comment and provide your critical review of the author's politics, science, space exploration, philosophy and activism. This helps us craft an ongoing community.
In support of this new venue, there is also a new Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/JerryPournelleChaosManor.
In support of this new venue, there is also a new Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/JerryPournelleChaosManor. The new FaceBook groups is designed to stimulate discussion and make Dr. Pournelle's writings relevant for 2020. It will include surveys, controversial quotes, and guided conversations. In fact, the complete title of Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor Forum on Facebook would include "The Friends and Foes Forum".
For instance, two scenarios are offered recently on the Facebook Group for comment by friends and foes, liberals or conservatives:
"You find out a human journalist is about to expose humankind's last resistance to alien submission. What do you do?"
"It was just announced that a comet is about to hit the earth. What do you do right now? What tribe will you join? Will you be cannibal, biker, politician or good neighbor?"
Plus, there is a new Twitter Feed at https://twitter.com/PournelleJerry
Follow the new Facebook Group and Twitter feeds for Jerry Pournelle and participate in daily discussions.
Dr. Jerry Pournelle passed away on 8 Sep 2017. Please visit his blog site for his last post and a place for your rememberances.
You can find the eulogy given by his daughter Jennifer here.
New View/Mail location is www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/ (starting 25 June 2011). Please update your bookmarks (there's a nice link to do that on the right side of the new pages). These are the pages that are most frequently updated; alas, since the stroke, other content is not often updated.
Here are links to Mail and View prior to that date (links open in new window). I encourage all to help support this place.
Other useful links for you to bookmark; all open in a new tab:
Note: there may be broken links on some pages - sites have gone away over the years, things have moved, whatever. You might find the information via the googles/bings/ducks. Or the page might be forever lost.
The View and Mail pages are my personal journal and day book. Subjects include civilization and technology, strategy, climate, energy policy, space access, and other issues that interest me. In general this site assumes interest in rational discussion of technology and civilization.
Most of the action is in View and Mail. You should scroll way down to see what else is here.
The best way is to use your favorite search engine. Add this to the end of your search: 'site:jerrypournelle.com' (without the quotes). The new Chaos Manor blog area has it's own search function on the right side that will search only the blog posts. For a comprehensive search, use your favorite search engine.
(This list is in dire need of updating.)
Recent Topics in Chronological Order are above. This is Topics of Continuing Importance and more about this place.
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy
MORE Old Headlines On OLD HEADLINES Page)
Some topics of continuing importance
<How to get my job: the secret of becoming a
professional writer.
Want to teach anyone to read English?
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy
How To Publish Your Book as an Ebook
Pournelle's Iron Law and a Defense of the Teacher's Unions
Work In Progress at Chaos Manor
Want to teach your kids to read?
What this place is about: Jerry Pournelle's Web Site, including Chaos Manor Mail. Accept no Substitutes. This page is generally updated daily. Most of the action here is in The View from Chaos Manor, and Chaos Manor Mail. Many of my observations are given as comments on Mail. View is mostly my comments and mini-essays on many topics. One popular permanent item is HOW TO GET MY JOB.
[Original Blog] I can make some claim to this being The Original Blog and Daybook. I certainly started keeping a day book well before most, and long before the term "blog" or Web Log was invented. BIX, the Byte information exchange, preceded the Web by a lot, and I also had a daily journal on GE Genie. Both of those would have been considered blogs if there had been any such term. All that was long before the World Wide Web.
I note that a Google Search on Blog doesn't show me, at least not in the first 10 or so pages, but then I long insisted I don't "blog" because I find the word ugly. But I have a fair amount of traffic and a quality readership, so I can hardly complain. This site is supported by subscribers on the "Public Radio" model: if you think it is worthwhile, please subscribe.
This Web Site supplements my column that ran in the print version of BYTE for twenty years and continues at Chaos Manor Reviews. This web page adds more, including mail to both me and the column. You'll find: Computers, Blogs, Blogging, Operating systems, Linux, Features, Journals, Day Books, Mail, Discussions, Current Topics, Science Fact and Fiction, Space Policy, Defense Policy, Population Density, Global Warming, History, Republic or Empire?, and Other Stuff I think is interesting. It is mostly text. The main action here is in VIEW and MAIL which are updated more or less daily. There is also my work in progress. If you have not the foggiest notion of what you've found, click here.
NOTE: Mail sent to me not intended for publication should be clearly marked as such.
Order Windows Version Reading TLC Now
Report Electronic Piracy Sites to epiracy@sfwa.org
REPUBLIC AND EMPIRE: A continuing discussion
A Serving Officer in Iraq: Letters
How the Ashkenazi Got Their Smarts
See Chaos Manor Reviews for regular columns and show reports.
Saving the space program: things change slowly. The latest is Getting to Space: Prizes. The older relevant papers are still relevant. Start with Getting To Space. You might also look at The Megamissions Paper about military policy. For my testimony to Congress about what to do with NASA and what we learned from DC/X, see Why Have Nasa? Most 0f the space papers are summarized in this Space Reports index page.
You will find my essay on The Voodoo Sciences (what's wrong with social science) here.
Much of what we do here ends up in Reports. The summary page is here. There are many subjects.
There are a lot of reports. Each reports folder has a summary page. Contents vary among from Republic vs. Empire (and incompetent empire) to the Yorktown Incident through Christening of a godchild to the opening of a corpse plant to picture reports of rolling my Bronco in Death Valley to a stroll along a canal in Japan. How a report ends up in one folder rather than another seems largely to be whim, but they all have quite a bit of good stuff accumulated over the years.
There also photoessays about trips to Paris and Rome.
How to get my job: the secret of becoming a professional writer.
SURVIVAL in DEATH VALLEY: With PIX
Summary Pages:
| Are you a professional? | ||
| Teach Anyone to Read English |
If you got here looking for the MegaMissions paper, click here. I find that my space papers are not well organized or indexed and are very hard to find. I'll try to do something about that. The other paper referenced in my recent talk is Getting to Space.
Some not very Current Topics which continue to generate interest:
How to get my job: the secret of becoming a professional writer.
SURVIVAL in DEATH VALLEY: With PIX
Special Reports on many subjects:
The Chaos Manor Reports Page Index: various reports of interest.
This is a content oriented site. You are not likely to find pretty new graphics here. This is not a course on web design. I do try to make things readable, and keep the download times small. Topics include: New machines, chip reports, book and game reviews, musings on many matters. The View From Chaos Manor is updated almost every day. There is a great deal of mail, on many topics. If you don't know why you're here, try VIEW, then "What Is This Place?" It can be confusing here, but many like it that way. Reminds them of The Adventure Game.
WARNING: this place is updated frequently. RELOAD/REFRESH early and often. Good Luck.
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