This page is for site visitors to post remembrances and thoughts at the time of Dr. Pournelle’s passing (8 Sep 2017). Your thoughts can be added using the form at the bottom of this page. Comments that are not related to words of encouragement or condolences will be removed.
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Jerry’s last post is here. The text of the eulogy given at the memorial is here. Site news is here. – Editor
Jannisaries was the 1st Science Fiction novel I read and understood, way back in 1979. It was fantastic…..and of course naturally led to Starship Troopers. And the Falkenberg’s Legion and whole Pournelle Future History,,,,, it was part of the reason I joined the US Army and stayed 20 years. A Scholar, Intellectual, Veteran and Patriot, at a time when we greatly needed them.
My condolences to the Pournelle family.
I never had the pleasure to meet Jerry in person, but I corresponded with him a few times, times I treasured given that I have read everything of his I could get my hands for the past 40 years or more.
I learned a lot from Jerry, I was deeply inflluenced by him, and ultimately given a lot of hope for our future reading his works.
The world is a much lesser place now…
Thank you for everything! You made the world a better place.
Thank you, Mr. Pournelle, for the many wonderful hours I spent reading your stories. Though I am sad that you will no longer be posting your current thoughts on Chaos Manner, I wanted to let you know that I have been sharing you with my children for several years, and I am sure I will with their’s in the future. Consequently I know you will continue to speak and enrich in the years to come as you have in those past. The world is a better place for you having added to it, and I will be forever grateful to you for the large role you played in my life. Fare well on your travels until we meet again.
Thank you for everything! You will be missed.
You were a guiding light in my formative years. I have a stack of your books almost as tall as I am (I’m 6’3″). I stand in awe of your life. -Such- a life. Godspeed to whatever awaits you behind the veil.
Jerry was our neighbor in Studio City and I’ll always remember the day he walked over to give my son a package of educational materials from his wife. We were all on the front porch and he bent down to look the boy right in the eye and said “boy, I wish more than anything that I had learned my times tables up to 20 when I was your age, it would have made my life so much easier.” I told one of my son’s teachers that story just last night. I quiz my son now and then and always remind him of the gift he was given on that day.
A Grand Master and a regular guy walking his dog down the tree lined family street.
So very sorry for your loss.
My condolences to his family! I am shocked at this sad news! I had hoped he would live forever, but alas none of us have that privilege. He has surely been welcomed with joy on the other side, and that he will be among those who are greeted with “Well done thou faithful servant!” Requiescat in Pace.
I can’t remember a time that Jerry Pournelle wasn’t somehow a part of my life. I have so many of his books, and he was a big influence on me. I am diminished for his passing, but so much richer that he lived.
To his family, you have my thoughts and prayers. He was truly a great man, and we will all miss him.
I am filled with deep sadness at Dr. Pournelle’s passing, yet stand amazed at the full life he led. My sincere condolences to his friends and family.
My wife, Dr. Laura Freas Beraha, and I are extremely shocked and saddend at the news of Dr. Pournelle’s passing. He was a great author, scientist, humanitarian, politicist, and a good friend. Our condolences to Roberta, Alex, and the rest of the family and to all who cherished him. He shall be missed by many.
I’ve been reading Mr. Pournelle’s books, his Byte articles and the Chaos Manor website for as long as I can remember. I enjoyed them all and learned a great many things from his writings and those of the others on this website. My condolences to his friends and family. Thank you and Fare well.
I have been reading Jerry Pournelle for 45 years. Every new book was an event for me. I can’t say enough how much he meant to me.
Thanks Jerry for writing stories that I’ve reread many times over and my condolences to your family and friends.
I’ve been reading Jerry Pournelle since I was nine years old. I loved his storytelling. I has occasion to meet him at one of the Chicago Worldcons, and found him to be a delightful person. The world is poorer for his loss.
Eternal Rest Grant unto him, Oh Lord, and let Perpetual Light shine upon him.
May his memory be for a blessing.
A great sadness & a hole in the world. He will be missed.
My condolences to his family.
My condolences to Jerry’s family and friends and co-authors. Jerry was a positive influence on me, through our occasional correspondence, his books, his Chaos Manor magazine column, this blog, and sundry video appearances here and there. His erudition and keen insight will be missed. I’m sad he’s gone, he wrote sentences worth reading to the end. I’ll miss him.
I’m sad to learn of Dr. Pournelle’s passing. I’ve followed his work since I first learned on him while coming of age as a sci-fi buff during the 80’s. I disagreed with many of his positions but learned a phenomenal amount from his ruminations. His cool stoicism when suffering from brain cancer was a model of rational toughness. The Jerry closet to us is no more, but in this infinite universe, he lives on endless times far beyond the known stars. Vale et ad Astra, Jerry Lee
A wonderful author of fact and fiction. May his memory be a blessing.