Every Science Fiction Book by Jerry Pournelle
STARBORN & GODSONS
THE LONG-AWAITED CONCLUSION OF THE HEOROT SERIES
FROM GENRE LEGENDS LARRY NIVEN, JERRY POURNELLE, AND STEVEN BARNES
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This is the new art cover by Kurt Miller for STARBORN + GODSONS, the long awaited 3rd book in the Legacy of Heorot series by Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven and Stephen Barnes. (It’s the last book Jerry collaborated)
The soldier is wearing the new godson mesh armor and the depiction of this Grendel might keep you up — but no mind–this is a taut work you’ll read until dawn regardless!
THE BEST OF JERRY POURNELLE
15 great stories and essays edited by longtime collaborator John Carr.
Includes Storynight at the Stronghold, the long uncovered epilogue to LUCIFERS HAMMER.
Find out what happened to Gil the Surfer.
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MAMELUKES
…the last work by Jerry Pournelle
THE FINAL NOVEL BY LEGENDARY AUTHOR JERRY POURNELLE, WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR DAVID WEBER AND AUTHOR’S SON US NAVY COMMANDER PHILLIP POURNELLE (retired)
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The Janissaries series of military and political-based science fiction novels are set in an interstellar confederation of races, in which humans are a slave race entrusted with military affairs and law enforcement.
BOOK 1
Reluctantly volunteering for a dangerous mission, Captain Rick Galloway and his men are cut off in hostile territory when the CIA pulls out their support, an event that is further complicated when an alien spaceship arrives.
BOOK 2
For the first few years, Rick Galloway and his band of mercenaries were doing well just to survive. They’d been swept off a hilltop in Africa by a flying saucer and deposited on an alien world where the other inhabitants were human – – but from various and unfriendly periods of history, all collected by flying saucer raids. Rick has faced facts: this place is going to be home, permanently. To create a safe society for themselves and the families they are gradually building, they need to do more than just survive; they must convince the others that a unified, peaceful society is better than a collection of warring tribes. Force would not be Rick’s chosen method of persuasion, but on a planet where the other dominant culture is one brought straight from ancient Rome, force may be the only way.
BOOK 3
Kidnapped from Earth as they were about to die in battle, Rick Galloway and his band of mercenaries, like the other human slaves on the planet Tran, will not be missed. Subjects of the Shalnuksi slave masters, they are forced to harvest the priceless drug surinomaz. Now, even as slaves, Earth’s transplanted warriors are locked in battle against each other. But an epoch is ending. As the Demon Star sweeps toward its devastating apex, the slave masters flee the planet to await its annihilation in safety. Soon all life on the planet will cease, leaving it ripe for repopulation.
FOOTFALL #1 New York Times Bestseller
“IT’S NO JOKE, ALIEN ELEPHANTS ARE A SCI-FI HIT”
Just as the movie industry annually releases summer blockbuster films, the publishing industry has its own version of summertime madness.
And science-fiction fans this year are being offered a blockbuster called Footfall — a tale of an alien invasion authored by veteran science-fiction authors Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
What makes this alien invasion unique is that the monsters are portrayed as looking like baby elephants.
Why elephants, as opposed to the usual bug-eyed monster?
“Niven can make an alien as dangerous as you like, and without putting fangs on him,” said Pournelle. And Niven did just that, with the aliens — called the “Fithp” — nearly conquering the Earth.
This is the fifth time Niven and Pournelle, who live just 8 miles from each other in Los Angeles, have collaborated on a science-fiction novel. The other four books, including A Mote in God’s Eye and Lucifer’s Hammer, were all best sellers.
Lucifer’s Hammer (1977) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
REVIEW
Yep, still a five star read for me. It’s everything a post-apocalyptic book should be, including very realistic. I’ve been reading this book for 25 years and I’ve probably read it 20 times and I’ll read it 20 more. “We control the lightning!”
Oath of Fealty(1981) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
In the near future, Los Angeles is an all but uninhabitable war zone, racked by crime, violence, pollution and poverty. But above the blighted city, a Utopia has arisen: Todos Santos, a thousand-foot high single-structured city, designed to used state-of-the-art technology to create a completely human-friendly environment, offering its dwellers everything they could want in exchange for their oath of allegiance and their constant surveillance . But there are those who want to see the utopia destroyed, whose answer to tomorrow’s best and brightest hope is mindless violence. And they have just entered Todos Santos. . . .
Publication Order of Legacy of Heorot Books
STARBORN + GODSONS –” a 5 STAR READ” and “a PAGE TURNER”
with a special forward by Larry Niven and an insight by Steven Barnes “Working with Giants”
THE LONG-AWAITED CONCLUSION OF THE HEOROT SERIES FROM GENRE LEGENDS LARRY NIVEN, JERRY POURNELLE, AND STEVEN BARNES
Avalon was thriving. The cold sleep colonists from Earth had settled on a verdant, livable world. The fast and cunning predators humans named grendels were under control, and the mainland outposts well established. Avalon’s new mainland hydroelectric power station was nearly complete, and when on-line would compensate for the nuclear power systems lost in the Grendel Wars. Humans would have power, and with power came the ability to make all the necessities for life. They would survive. They would not survive as a spacefaring people. What they were losing faster than they knew was the ability to get to space. But unbeknownst to the planet-bound humans, something was moving out there in the stars, decelerating at a rate impossible for a natural object. And its destination was Avalon. The most probable origin was Earth’s Solar System. This is a novel of first contact—between the human Starborn and the self-named Godsons who followed on, between the first generation of Avalon born humans and their descendants, and between humans and the almost ineffably alien species native to their new world . . . .
The Legacy of Heorot | (1987) | Kindle |
The Dragons of Heorot aka Beowulf’s Children | Kindle | |
The Secret of Black Ship Island | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
STARBORN & GODSONS | (2020) | Kindle |
Publication Order of Janissaries Books
Some days it just didn’t pay to be a soldier. Captain Rick Galloway and his men had been talked into volunteering for a dangerous mission—only to be ruthlessly abandoned when faceless CIA higher-ups pulled the plug on the operation. They were cut off in hostile territory, with local troops and their Cuban “advisors” rapidly closing in. And then the alien spaceship landed…
The mercenaries are offered a deal, travel to the stars, to a primitive planet, and fight the enemies of the aliens. Intrigue, danger, and death await.
5 STAR REVIEW I am a bit royally ticked about this book. See I like it. I’ve liked other books by the writers they have turned out some great science fiction (and science fantasy). Much of it with plenty of action, a lot of it with thought provoking ideas. The book’s great. I sort of stumbled over it after seeing it reviewed and recommended here. Went to the library web-sight and there it was. Hoopla had it in audio all I had to do was download it. It’s not a totally new idea human soldiers from earth get transported to some other planet or world or universe or whatever and have to make a go of it there. That’s what we got here. the soldiers were about to be slaughtered when they were unexpectedly and against all chance snatched away by aliens to be used as “foreign troops” on a distant world. Like I said not really unique, but this one is done well. it drew me in and held my interest from the beginning.
So why am I ticked off you ask? BECAUSE IT ENDS IN A CLIFFHANGER AND THE LIBRARY DOESN’T HAVE THE NEXT BOOK IN ANY FORM!
Janissaries | (1979) | Kindle |
Clan and Crown | (1982) | Kindle |
Storms of Victory | (1987) | Kindle |
MAMELUKES (JANNISARRIES IV) | (2020) | HARDBACK |
Publication Order of Moties Books
THE MOTE IN GODS EYE
An alien probe is discovered, the Navy dispatches two ships to determine whether the aliens pose a threat… Called by Robert A. Heinlein: “Possibly the greatest science fiction novel ever written,” this magnificent exploration of first contact and a truly alien society is a “must read” for science fiction fans.The united ‘Second Empire of Man’ spans vast distances, due to the Alderson Drive which has enabled humans to travel easily between the stars. After an
“As science fiction, one of the most important novels ever published.”
– San Francisco Chronicle
“Possibly the greatest science fiction novel I have ever read.”
– Robert A. Heinlein
GRIPPING HAND
Robert Heinlein called it “possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read.” The San Francisco Chronicle declared that “as science fiction, The Mote in God’s Eye is one of the most important novels ever published.” Now Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, award winning authors of such bestsellers as Footfall and The Legacy of Heorot, return us to the Mote, and to the universe of Kevin Renner and Horace Bury, of Rod Blaine and Sally Fowler. There, 25 years have passed since humanity quarantined the mysterious aliens known as Moties within the confines of their own solar system. They have spent a quarter century analyzing and agonizing over the deadly threat posed by the only aliens mankind has ever encountered– a race divided into distinct biological forms, each serving a different function. Master, Mediator, Engineer. Warrior. Each supremely adapted to its task, yet doomed by millions of years of evolution to an inescapable fate. For the Moties must breed– or die. And now the fragile wall separating them and the galaxy beyond is beginning to crumble.
Publication Order of Falkenberg’s Legion Books
For a century, the Americans and Soviets had maintained an uneasy alliance based on the CoDominium, a world order in which no other power or combination of powers could threaten their mutual hegemony. Thus did the Americans and Russians learn to live at peace with each other.
But nothing lasts forever, the CoDominium’s energies are nearly spent, and internal conflicts are ripping it apart. The future belongs to colony worlds like Sparta—if they can survive the death-throes of Earth’s civilization.
To do that they will need men who understand the art of war, men like mercenary commander John Christian Falkenberg, and Lysander, Prince of Sparta, the first Prince of Mercenaries.
SUBWAY TO SUNRISE | (1970-2020) | KINDLE |
Prince of Mercenaries | (1989) | Paperback Kindle |
Falkenberg’s Legion | (1990) | Paperback Kindle |
Go Tell the Spartans | (1991) | Paperback Kindle |
Prince of Sparta | (1993) | Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Legacy of Heorot Books
STARBORN + GODSONS
THE LONG-AWAITED CONCLUSION OF THE HEOROT SERIES FROM GENRE LEGENDS LARRY NIVEN, JERRY POURNELLE, AND STEVEN BARNES
Avalon was thriving. The cold sleep colonists from Earth had settled on a verdant, livable world. The fast and cunning predators humans named grendels were under control, and the mainland outposts well established. Avalon’s new mainland hydroelectric power station was nearly complete, and when on-line would compensate for the nuclear power systems lost in the Grendel Wars. Humans would have power, and with power came the ability to make all the necessities for life. They would survive. They would not survive as a spacefaring people. What they were losing faster than they knew was the ability to get to space. But unbeknownst to the planet-bound humans, something was moving out there in the stars, decelerating at a rate impossible for a natural object. And its destination was Avalon. The most probable origin was Earth’s Solar System. This is a novel of first contact—between the human Starborn and the self-named Godsons who followed on, between the first generation of Avalon born humans and their descendants, and between humans and the almost ineffably alien species native to their new world . . . .
The Legacy of Heorot | (1987) | Kindle |
The Dragons of Heorot aka Beowulf’s Children | Kindle | |
The Secret of Black Ship Island | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Paul Crane Books–THE RED HEROIN SERIES
RED HEROIN When engineer and army vet Paul Crane agrees to accompany his police officer friend on a night cruise, he never expected a deadly shoot-out would lead to his being recruited in a CIA sting operation involving China and the heroin trade. There is high-voltage suspense from start to finish in this novel by Jerry Pournelle.
Robert A. Heinlein called it “A hell of a good yarn … the most realistic counter-espionage story I’ve read in a long, long time.” Includes a new Afterword by the author.
“A hell of a good yarn … the most realistic counter-espionage story I’ve read in a long, long time.”
– Robert A. Heinlein
Red Heroin | -1968 | Kindle |
Red Dragon | -1970 | Kindle |
Subway to Sunrise | 1971-2020 | Kindle |
Publication Order of CoDominium Books
Set in the far future world of humanity’s intergalactic Second Empire, Colonel Nathan MacKinnie, mercenary and former rising star in the Empire’s Navy, is given a secret – and dangerous – assignment by the governor of his home planet Prince Samual’s World. MacKinnie is to accompany the Empire’s Navy ship on a routine trip to the technologically backward planet Makassar and return with some carefully guarded documents that may contain instructions on building a spaceship (technology forbidden by the Empire to Prince Samual’s World).
MacKinnie undertakes this mission of deception and danger to Makassar, with many unexpected consequences. This novel is set in the same universe and approximate time frame as THE MOTE IN GOD’S EYE.
A Spaceship for the King aka King David’s Spaceship | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
West of Honor | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mercenary | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Planet Of The Apes Books
Publication Order of War World Books
The Burning Eye | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death’s Head Rebellion | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sauron Dominion | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Invasion | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
CoDominium | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Man-Kzin Books
Publication Order of Jupiter Books
Publication Order of Golden Road Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Birth of Fire | (1976) | Paperback Kindle |
Lucifer’s Hammer | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Oath of Fealty | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Footfall | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fallen Angels | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The Future Quartet | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Jerry Pournelle | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Endless Frontier Anthologies
The Endless Frontier | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Endless Frontier, Vol. II | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cities in Space | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Life Among the Asteroids | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Far Frontiers Anthologies
Far Frontiers | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Far Frontiers 2 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Far Frontiers 3 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Far Frontiers 4 | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Far Frontiers 5 | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Far Frontiers 6 | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Far Frontiers 7 | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Imperial Stars Anthologies
The Stars at War | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Republic and Empire | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Crash of Empire | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of There Will Be War Anthologies
There Will Be War, Vol. I | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
There Will Be War, Vol. II | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
There Will Be War, Vol. III | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
There Will Be War, Vol. IV | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
There Will Be War, Vol. V | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
There Will Be War, Vol. VI | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
There Will Be War, Vol. VII | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
There Will Be War, Vol. VIII | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
There Will Be War, Vol. IX | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
There Will Be War, Vol. X | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
In his preface to “2020 Vision”, Jerry Pournelle explains the driving force behind this collection of short stories. He wanted a focus on realism. It was 1970; he asked the authors to envision life in 2020 as it might actually happen, without invading aliens, parallel universes, or other such far out contrivances. Of course, by doing so he might seem to clamp down on the greatest potential of science fiction, originality. But a sufficiently skilled author should be able to bend reality and our heads while staying with the bounds of the possible. Most of these don’t, however.
Without any doubt, the top story here is Dian Girad’s “Eat, Drink, and be Merry”. By 2020 we’ve grown so health conscious that dieting and exercise routines are enforced by law, and computers monitor the citizens nonstop for signs of unhealthiness. Against this tyranny, one woman wages a humorous battle and achieves a small victory. (Just please ignore Pournelle’s hilariously sexist introduction.) The other flagship story in this collection is Norman Spinrad’s “A Thing of Beauty”, a melancholy look at a future where Japanese industrial giants dominate the world and loot the national treasures of other cultures, even America.
Contributions by Harlan Ellison and Poul Anderson, boring Orwell ripoffs with nothing new to say. Dave McDaniel’s “Prognosis: Terminal” doesn’t seem to have much to say either. Ben Bova’s “Build me a Mountain”, a tale about the politics of space exploration, was prophetic in predicting the collapse of support for exploring the planets, though it lacks some excitement. Rounding out the collection is Larry Niven’s speculation on anarchy, “Cloak of Anarchy”, and A.E. Van Vogt’s “Future Perfect”, where new technology allows the world government to police male sexuality.
2020 Vision- 50th Anniversary Edition | (1974) (2020) | Kindle |
Black Holes | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Survival of Freedom | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Award Stories 16 | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Science Fiction Yearbook | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
That Buck Rogers Stuff–SOON TO BE RE-RELEASED BY CASTALIA PRESS | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Step Farther Out! | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The User’s Guide to Small Computers | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mutual Assured Survival | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Adventures in Microland | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Guide to Disc Operating System and Easy Computing | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pournelle’s PC Communications Bible | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Windows with an Attitude | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
PC Hardware: The Definitive Guide | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1001 Computer Words You Need to Know | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Inferno Books
Publication Order of Laurie Jo Hansen Books
Thank you for this! Any info on whatever became of the L-5 society? Asgardia is all I am aware of in that realm right now.
The L-5 Society became (part of) the National Space Society, which still exists.
The National Space Society can be found here:
https://space.nss.org/
I found them while searching for Heppenheimer’s ‘Colonies in Space,’ below.
https://space.nss.org/colonies-in-space-by-t-a-heppenheimer/
I bought this when it first came out, but foolishly lent my copy, which I never saw again. I have found other copies since, fortunately.
This is an excellent resource. Despite many years of buying Jerry’s books, I can see that I’ve missed a few. That will be remedied in the coming years, as I have opportunity.
This webpage appears to be complete. There is a link with the exact same name (ALL THE WORKS BY JERRY POURNELLE) at the end of the menu bar opposite “Home” that goes somewhere else. That page is incomplete as it is missing major works.
Subway to Sunrise isn’t available on Amazon.
Sorry, we had to pull down SUBWWAY TO SUNRISE from Amazon. Jerry’s long time editor, John Carr, thinks it’s good enough. Science Fiction Book Club was unanimous it should be published. The only way to read SUBWAY TO SUNRISE is to make a new contribution to ChaosManor here:
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/sciencefiction/support-the-estate-of-dr-pournelle/
THEN IT IS FREE.
I followed the link to make a contribution but it appears to be no longer an option.
I would like to purchase a copy of Subway to Sunrise somehow.
This should fill the holes in my collection, thank you.
I started Reading Jerry Pournelle in 1973 when, at 13, I started reading Analog Magazine. I still have the May and June 1973 copies of Analog with ‘Sword and Scepter,’ which later became ‘The Mercenary.’
Just Discovered Jerry Pournelle’s stories and am a huge fan! Started with West of Honor, and then The Mote in God’s Eye, and just finished Exiles to Glory. Now reading The Mercenary, but I really like the setup that ended with Exiles…is there a story that details what happens upon c4’s delivery to earth and the fusion revolution that creates the Alderson Drive etc.. Thanks!!
I have a question: Back in the 1980s I remember reading an excerpt of the original opening to “Mote In God’s Eye” in one of Jerry’s anthologies. There was some commentary with it about readers/fans reacting to his postulated Empire of Man. Jerry’s comment was along the lines of, “Do we think it’s inevitable? Of course not. Do we think it’s desirable? We don’t have to say. Do we think it’s POSSIBLE? Damn straight.”
I’m trying to properly source that quote, but I can’t recall the title of the work it was published in; only that I read it in the 1985-88 time frame. Can someone assist?
I think the quote you are looking for is from the introduction to “N-Space”
I remember it, too. But I can’t help you.