Frank Pournelle
Film makers, publishers, streaming content producers and script writers have optioned works involving Dr. Jerry Pournelle over the last 50 years. Our appreciation to James Cameron and Goddard Film Group.
There are four major properties available for Original Science Fiction Programming via streaming platforms:
We welcome contact by development executives, script writers and producers at Amazon Prime, Apple+, Disney+, HBO, Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Warner Brothers and CBS All Access
Universe rights and movie|streaming options are represented by STARTLING.
Foreign and Domestic Literary rights (including audio or ebook versions) are represented by SPECTRUM LITERARY AGENCY.
FOR INTRODUCTION OR EARLY EXPLORATION you may contact doctorjerrypournelle@gmail.com or call 800-334-4500.
As the family curates the Estate and his prolific body of work, we welcome your contact for new licensing or rights discussions– and in short order.
The Estate of Jerry Pournelle includes a wide variety of published works, website content, and several unpublished works. Many of these works have been optioned for audio books, e-books, movie depiction, video and board games as well as streaming video series.
We are currently focused on development for
- the CoDominium Universe
- The Mote in Gods Eye cinematic and video streaming
- STARSWARM video streaming rights
- Lucifers Hammer Mini Series
- Co-author search for a Footfall sequel
A renewed interest in the classic alien contact story The Mote In Gods Eye has sparked interest reviving the four NY Times Best Sellers with Larry Niven that include video and movie rights for Mote in God’s Eye, Lucifer’s Hammer, Footfall and Oath of Fealty.
The family has recently opened offices for discussions –so please contact Jerry Pournelle & Associates at 800-334-4500 or by email to DoctorJerryPournelle@gmail.com for rapid response.
For information, referral and exploration of licensing we encourage your contact before March 30, 2020.
Here is a list of many of the works:
List of Dr. Pournelle’s books, with links to Amazon. Some books are in multiple formats (ebook, paperback, hardbound).
Fiction
Red Heroin (as Wade Curtis) (1969)
Red Dragon (as Wade Curtis) (1970)
Novelisation of the movie Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1973)
A Spaceship for the King (1973) expanded as King David’s Spaceship (1981)
High Justice (1974)
Birth of Fire (1976)
West of Honor (Kindle Edition) West of Honor (Kindle Edition) or (1976) (later integrated into Falkenberg’s Legion, and as Arrarat incorporated into The Prince)
The Mercenary (1977)
Exiles to Glory (1977)
Janissaries (1979)
Men of War (1993)
Starswarm (1998)
Prince of Mercenaries (2002)
The Last King of Atlantis (unpublished)
That Buck Rogers Stuff (1977/2020 Update)
Red Poppies (as Wade Curtis) 1971 (unpublished)
Collaborations With Larry Niven
The Mote in God’s Eye (1975) (with Larry Niven)
Inferno (1976) (with Larry Niven)
Lucifer’s Hammer (1977) (with Larry Niven)
Oath of Fealty (1981) (with Larry Niven)
Footfall (1985) (with Larry Niven)
The Legacy of Heorot (1987) (with Larry Niven & Steven Barnes)
Fallen Angels (1991) (with Larry Niven & Michael Flynn) (Prometheus Award) ISBN 0-7434-3582-6. Electronic edition free at the Baen Free Library
The Gripping Hand (1993) (with Larry Niven) also known as The Moat Around Murcheson’s Eye (UK edition)
Beowulf’s Children (1995) (with Steven Barnes & Larry Niven) also known as The Dragons of Heorot (1995) (UK edition)
The Burning City (2000) (with Larry Niven)
Burning Tower (2005) (sequel to The Burning City, with Larry Niven)
Escape from Hell (2009) (with Larry Niven)
With others
The Houses of the Kzinti (with S. M. Stirling and Dean Ing)
The Children’s Hour (with S. M. Stirling)
Prince of Sparta (with S. M. Stirling)
Go Tell The Spartans (2002) (with S. M. Stirling)
Janissaries II: Clan and Crown (1982) (with Roland J. Green)
Janissaries III: Storms of Victory (1987) (with Roland J. Green)
Tran (with Roland J. Green, single-volume combination of the never completed second and third Janissaries novels)
Higher Education (with Charles Sheffield)
Mutually Assured Survival (with Dean Ing) (1984)
Non-Fiction
California Sixth Grade Reader The 1914 California Sixth Grade Reader with classical stories and poems that every high school student studied in that era. With commentary by Jerry Pournelle. (July 19, 2014)
Strategy of Technology with Stefan Thomas Possony (1970)
Pournelle’s PC Communications Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Productivity With a Modem (1992)
THAT BUCK ROGERS STUFF (late 2020)
STEP FURTHER OUT! (late 2020)
TRUNK WORKS NEVER PUBLISHED
3 LETTER AGENCY SERIES including BLACK POPPIES, RED HEROIN + RED DRAGON
A very groovy cold war engineer fights to save his country in these techno-thrillers.
SUBWAY TO SUNRISE
The first introduction of Colonel John Christian Falkenberg.
A while back, I read “Starborn and Godsons”, by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes. This was the last book that Jerry worked on before his untimely death a few years ago. This is (slightly modified) the comment I left on my Facebook page.
On page 181, he left a legacy. When I read those words, I knew, instantly, from who and where they came. Here, I share them with you all.
“And you remembered that you were a human being?”
“More than that. But that, too. I remembered that a human being isn’t just his body. Our bodies are weak. I’m my _tools_. I’m the knowledge we pass from generation to generation. I am every human being who ever strove and fought and learned and then taught his tribe what he learned. I’m my grandfather.”
A man is born, lives, and eventually dies. He lives on in his words, his teachings, the lives he has touched, one way or another.
Jerry, may you live forever in the hearts and minds of Man.
Well said. ( in both your case and his, but you’ll agree that it’s more so in his case)
How the West won the Cold War.
1. USAF “Project 75” written in 1965 as a look ahead to the future technologies that would give a decisive edge to US forces. Just one example: laser guided bombs were first successfully fielded in 1972, against the Thanh Hoa bridge in North Vietnam, which had successfully withstood near constant US air attacks beginning in 1965.
2. The Strategy of Technology, written in 1970, details how a technologically advanced military can bankrupt its opponents by forcing them to spend on countermeasures to their technologically advanced weapons. (overly simplistic description, but it gets the point across)
3. The Strategic Defense Initiative, introduced to the American public in a 1983 speech by President Reagan laid out the case for technologies that were just slightly beyond our capabilities of that time, which could make defense against ICBMs a realistic possibility. Even the paltry R&D sums Congress eventually allowed helped with both bankrupting the USSR as it attempted parity and saw realization in things like the Patriot anti-missile system and its more advanced follow on projects.
What do Project 75, Strategy of Technology, and SDI all have in common?
Dr Jerry E Pournelle, may he Rest in Peace
Thank you Jerry, for saving western civilization. Please forgive us for continually mucking it up.