Jerry Pournelle with Larry Niven
Marilyn Niven, Mr Poul and Karen Anderson, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Pournelle at MGM Grand 1981
Portrait of Jerry Pournelle 1981 at the MGM Grand Studios.
The Best of Jerry Pournelle Round Table Part 1 of 2
John L. Carr, Alex Pournelle, and Phillip Pournelle in a roundtable discussion of The Best of Jerry Pournelle, edited by John L. Carr. Carr is the editor of the volume, and a long-time Pournelle associate. Alex and Phillip Pournelle are two of Jerry Pournelle’s sons. They all talk about the life and work of the late grandmaster of science fiction and a new collection of his work.
That Buck Rogers Stuff

That Buck Rogers Stuff

Rare compendium of early 1970’s predictions including Galaxy Magazine

LICENSING:

Galaxy Magazine Articles from 1974 -1977

Would need permission to reprint introduction and ‘Building The Mote in Gods Eye’ from Larry Niven

UPD Publishing Corporation holds the original copyrights from 1977. (Last published 1979)

Had been represented by Lurton Blasingame originally

Edited by Gavin Claypool Extequer Press

Cover, Motie and one minor image by Raul Garcia Capellla—deceased 2010. Illustrations to be reinterpreted



 “If it does not exist, design it yourself”
Dr. Jerry Pournelle





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For half a century, Jerry Pournelle’s name has been synonymous with hard-hitting, idea-driven, wonder-inducing science fiction. His Falkenberg’s Legion stories and Janissaries series helped define the military SF genre, his CoDominium universe is an SF standard for worldbuilding and future history, and his novels with frequent collaborator Larry Niven are some of the most important works science fiction has ever seen—and the best-selling and most read.

Now, for the first time, Pournelle’s best short work is collected together in a single volume. Here are over a dozen short stories, each with a new introduction by editor and long-time Pournelle assistant John F. Carr. There is also a cornucopia of Pournelle’s rampantly imaginative and compelling essays as well as great remembrances by Pournelle collaborators Larry Niven, S.M. Stirling, and more! 

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“Dead. I had to be dead. But dead men don’t think about death.

What do dead men think about? Dead men don’t think. I was thinking – but I was dead. That struck me as funny and set off hysterics. And then I’d get myself under control and go ’round and ’round with it again. Dead. This was like nothing any religion had ever taught.

Not that I’d ever ‘caught’ any of the religions going around. But none had warned of this.”