Books by Jerry Pournelle
Born: 08/07/1933Jerry Pournelle Biography & Notes
Jerry Pournelle is a widely known writer in several fields. On one hand, in 1979 he began to write a column for BYTE magazine devoted to computers, which made him essentially the grandfather of computer reporting. He championed writing with computers in the 1979 article called "Writing with Computers," and his first computer, named Ezekiel, is on display at the Museum of American History. Pournelle is also a writer of militaristic, right-wing "hard" science fiction. In this vein, he has written a number of novels, many in collaboration with either Larry Niven or Steven Barnes (or both!), the most well-known of which include THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE (1974), LUCIFER'S HAMMER (1977), and OATH OF FEALTY (1981)--all of which were nominated for the Hugo Award. Pournelle also is the editor of several series of militaristic science fiction anthologies. He attended the University of Washington, where he received degrees in psychology and mathematics, master's degrees in experimental statistics and systems engineering, and doctorates in psychology and political science. His first published fiction was a pair of short stories in 1971, including "Ecology Now!", which displays Pournelle's commitment to ecological concerns.
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1001 Computer Words You Need to Know by Jerry Pournelle ( 2004)
An authoritative reference introduces and defines the essential vocabulary of computers and the Internet, with more than one thousand entries, complete with a sample sentence and supplementary notes, that cover everything from operating systems and software applications to networking, the Web, and other aspects of the new digital world.
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Adventures in Microland by Jerry Pournelle ( 1985)
Essays discuss programming, specific models of microcomputers, software, peripheral equipment, text editors, and artificial intelligence.
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Beowulf's Children by Steven Barnes, Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven ( 2009)
Revisiting the island paradise first encountered in
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Black Holes by Jerry Pournelle ( 1979) |
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Building the Perfect PC by Robert Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson ( 2006) |
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The Burning City by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle ( 2007)
In a town where a god periodically posses the inhabitants, giving them the ultimate power over fire, a young man finds himself allied with the wizard who killed his father. Leaving the town as it slowly disintegrates along with the god's fading power, together they set up anew only to find that both their fates are tied to that of the town's.
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Burning Eye by ( 1992)
SF masters relate the story of Haven, a world forever at war, and its inhabitants: the Saurons, militaristic supermen, the Apaches, victims, and the last regiment of Imperial Marines.
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Burning Tower by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle ( 2005)
Burning Tower, the daughter of Wandhall Feathersnake, and her young lover, Younglord Sandry, embark on a perilous quest to uncover the source of the giant, ferocious birds terrorizing Tep's Town, following the trail to a mysterious land ruled by magic and inhabited by the Huitizalatecs, a people who are controlling the birds for their own dark purpose.
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Call to Battle by Jerry Pournelle ( 1988)
Stories and essays about the future of war and conflict discuss tank warfare, alternative future histories, weapon systems, and the Soviet Union.
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The Children's Hour by Jerry Pournelle, S. M. Stirling ( 1994) |
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Cities in Space by Jerry Pournelle ( 1991)
A collection of short stories and articles by Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Silverberg, Jerry Pournelle, and others addresses the issue of interstellar colonization.
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Condominium Revolt on War World by Jerry Pournelle ( 1992)
The genetic super-soldiers the Saurons have one goal: total conquest of the planet Haven. But the "normal" humans of Haven failed to succumb to Sauron domination because they werevironment in the universe. Pournelle's War World series is extraordinarily successful, and his readers will clamor for this fourth volume.
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The Crash of Empire by Jerry Pournelle, John F. Car ( 1989) |
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Death's Head Rebellion by Jerry Pournelle ( 1992)
SF masters continue the saga of Haven and the Saurons, the Saurons now faced with rebellion from within.
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The Endless Frontier by Jerry Pournelle ( 1985) |
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Escape from Hell Library Edition by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle ( 2009) |
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Exile-and Glory by Jerry Pournelle ( 2008)
Far above a stagnating and corrupt Earth, a group of courageous men and women--dedicated anti-corruption activist Aneas MacKenzie; Laurie Jo Hansen, owner of a multinational corporation; Kevin Senecal, caught between the law and a juvie gang; and Ellen Macmillan, a young woman on a secret mission--seeks their future in the ultimate freedom of space.
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Exiles to Glory by Jerry Pournelle ( 1986) |
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Falkenberg's Legion by Jerry Pournelle ( 1991) |
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Fallen Angels by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Michael F. Flynn ( 2002)
Forced to land on the frozen world of Earth when a missile destroys their ship, Alex and Gordon soon find themselves on the run from the authorities, which leads them to the last pro-tech group left on Earth--a group determined to send them back into space in twenty extremely complicated stages.
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Fallen Angels/Go Tell the Spartans/Prince of Sparta/Computer Disk by Larry Niven ( 1993) |
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Far Frontiers by Jerry Pournelle ( 1985)
Short science fiction stories by Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Dean Ing, Damon Knight, and Larry Niven are complemented by the factual science writings of Ben Bova, Robert Forward, Jerry Pournelle, G. Harry Stine, and others.
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Fires of Freedom by Jerry Pournelle ( 2009) |
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Footfall by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle ( 1997) |
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Future Quartet Earth in the Year 2042 A Four-Part Invention by Frederik Pohl, Charles Sheffield, Ben Bova, Jerry Pournelle ( 1995)
Basing their projections on technological, scientific, environmental, and biomedical forecasts, four leading science fiction authors--Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, and Charles Sheffield--offer unique, vastly different views of the future. Reprint.
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Go Tell the Spartans by Jerry Pournelle, S. M. Stirling ( 1993)
Called upon to train the people of the colony planet Sparta in the ways of war, mercenary John Christian Falkenberg and his Legion unwittingly transform their own deadly enemies into enemies of the planet as well. Reissue.
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Gripping Hand by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle ( 1993)
In the sequel to The Mote in God's Eye, twenty-five years after the quarantine of the alien Moties within their own solar system, the walls separating them from the rest of the universe are beginning to crumble. Book available.
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High Justice by Jerry Pournelle ( 1993)
Corporate monsters battling for control of the universe and an interplanetary conspiracy are portrayed in two of the seven stories in this science-fiction anthology.
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The House of the Kzinti by Dean Ing, Jerry Pournelle, S. M. Stirling ( 2004)
While one Kzin commander tries to stop the war between the powerful felinoid warriors from the planet Kzin and the weak leaf-eating monkey-boys from Earth, Carroll Locklear, stranded on a world with prehistoric Kzinti, must race against time to discover a way to survive, in a volume containing the two novels The Children's Hour and Cathouse. Reprint.
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The Houses of the Kzinti by Dean Ing, Jerry Pournelle, S. M. Stirling ( 2002)
While one Kzin commander tries to stop the war between the powerful felinoid warriors from the planet Kzin and the weak leaf-eating monkey-boys from Earth, Carroll Locklear, stranded on a world with prehistoric Kzinti, must race against time to discover a way to survive. Original.
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Imperial Stars by Jerry Pournelle ( 1986)
Stories deal with interstellar barbarians, spacefaring civilizations, and peacekeeping, and are accompanied by essays and poems about military policy, space warfare, and advancing empires.
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Inferno by Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven ( 2008) |
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Invasion by Jerry Pournelle ( 1994)
When the governments of East and West united as the CoDominium and brought the world under one central control, they needed a dumping ground for criminals, troublemakers and dissidents. The planet Haven was that dumping ground. But now the genetically engineered Sauron supermen have retreated from their attacks on the Empire of Man and have fled to Haven.
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Janissaries by Jerry Pournelle ( 1996)
Captain Rick Galloway and his men had been talked into volunteering for a dangerous mission--inly 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 spacceship landed.
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King David's Spaceship by Jerry Pournelle ( 1981)
With their discovery by the CoDominium Imperial Navy ending their one-thousand-year isolation, Prince Samual's World will become a lowly administrated colony, unless the monarch can discover the secrets of space technology.
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La ciudad de las llamas/ The Burning City by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle ( 2008) |
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The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes ( 1987)
Light years from Earth, on Tau Ceti Four, two hundred colonists have created a thriving community, not realizing that they have upset a delicate ecological balance and have unleashed an unbelievable nightmare.
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Life Among the Asteroids by ( 1992)
A collection of fact and fiction surrounding space exploration features a work by Poul Anderson, Jerry Pournelle's look at pioneer know-how in space, Charles Sheffield's tale of a space battle between the young and old, and more. Original.
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Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle ( 1998)
Monumental devastation will sweep across the globe if the newly-discovered Hamner-Brown comet collides with the one major obstacle in its path: Earth.For millionaire Tim Hamner, the comet is a ticket to immortality. For filmmaker Harvey Randall, its a shot to redeem a flagging career. And for astronauts John Baker and Rick Delanty, it's a second chance for glory in outer space.But for a world gripped by comet fever, fascination quickly turns to fear. And only those who survive the impact will know the even greater terror, when rich and poor, politicians and killers, turn to each other or against each other--and the remnants of humanity grow savage to battle for what little remains . . .Including an all-new introduction by the authors!
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The Man-Kzin Wars II by Dean Ing, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, S. M. Stirling ( 1994)
The alien Kzinti had almost conquered the humans, but after the initial surprise, the humans fought back with a ferocity the Kzinti had never faced. But that was centuries ago, and the humiliation of lost battles has not faded. The Kzinti are back . . . and spoiling for a fight! Includes stories by Larry Niven, Dean Ing, Jerry Pournelle and S.M. Stirling.
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Man-Kzin Wars V by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Thomas T. Thomas, S. M. Stirling ( 1992)
The time-honored tradition of the ultra-successful Man-Kzin Wars saga continues with the fifth exciting book in the series, two fine short novels in a single volume. Mother Lode by Jerry Pournelle and Steve Stirling and Hey Diddle Diddle by Thomas T. Thomas both tell of humans and Kzini teaming up for adventure in the calm between the wars.
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Mercenary by Jerry Pournelle ( 1988)
In a future universe in which prisoner colonists are shipped to strange worlds for a corrupt alliance of Earth nations, John Christian Falkenberg gives up a brilliant military career and makes a monumental sacrifice.
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The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle ( 1974)
The accidental killing of a group of emissaries to earth threatens man's survival.
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Mutual Assured Survival by Jerry Pournelle ( 1984)
Argues for a change in U.S. military policy, and suggests the development of defensive space weapons capable of stopping missile attacks.
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Nebula Award Stories Sixteen by ( 1982)
Stories tell of a living Cro-Magnon, a little girl with magic powers, a search for living dodos, and the first human ambassador to an alien race.
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Oath of Fealty by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle ( 2007)
The consortium executives of Todos Santos, a four-square-mile, self-contained community above the devastated, near-future city of Los Angeles, a blighted urban enviroment wracked by violence, pollution, and poverty, exercise their full power when a prank sabotage raid reveals their top-secret defense system. Reprint.
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Oath of Fealty by Jerry Pournelle, Not Available ( 1982) |
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Pournelle's PC Communications Bible The Ultimate Guide to Productivity With a Modem by Jerry Pournelle, Michael Banks ( 1992) |
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Prince of Mercenaries by Jerry Pournelle ( 1989)
For a century the Americans and Soviets had maintained an uneasy alliance based on a new world order. But the CoDominium is decaying, and the future belongs to colony worlds like Sparta--if they can survive Earth's death-throes. To do that they will need men who understand war, men like mercenary commander John Christian Falkenberg, and Lysander, Prince of Sparta--the first Prince of Mercenaries.
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Prince of Sparta by Jerry Pournelle ( 1993)
Under siege from within, blockaded by the CoDominium alliance between America and Russia from without, the colony world of Sparta fights to preserve its experiment in liberty against Grand Senator Bronson and his terrorists, the Helots. Reissue.
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Red Dragon by Jerry Pournelle ( 1985) |
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Red Heroin by Jerry Pournelle ( 1985) |
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Republic and Empire by Jerry Pournelle ( 1987)
Stories and articles with space colonies, dictators, ambassadors, utopias, colleges of the future, cults, alien invaders, and interstellar politics.
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Roswell Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe by Karl T. Pflock ( 2001)
Offers background and documentation on the supposed crash of a flying saucer near Roswell, New Mexico, in the summer of 1947, and the alleged government cover-up.
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Ruido De Pasos/ Footfall by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle ( 2006) |
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Sauron Dominion by ( 1991)
Intent on keeping the planet Haven cut off from the rest of the empire while they slowly absorb all normal humanity into their own perverted form, a race of hideous supermen escalate Haven's fierce wars.
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The Science Fiction Yearbook by ( 1985)
A selection of science fiction stories by authors such as Robert Silverberg, Gregory Benford, and David Brin is accompanied by analyses of trends in science fiction in 1984
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Starswarm Library Edition by Jerry Pournelle ( 2003)
Daring at last to ask the benevolent voice in his head some difficult questions, young Kip learns that his parents had implanted a chip in his brain that connects him to a powerful computer, that they had been subsequently killed, and that his own life is also in danger. Reissue.
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Step Farther Out by Jerry Pournelle ( 1983) |
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A Storms of Victory by Jerry Pournelle, Roland Green ( 1988) |
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The Strategy of Technology Winning the Decisive War by Jerry Pournelle, Stefan Thomas Possony ( 1970) |
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That Buck Rogers Stuff by Jerry Pournelle ( 1977) |
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Tran by Roland J. Green, Jerry Pournelle ( 1996)
Finding himself on the distant world of Tran, which is populated by humans from all Earth times, former mercenary Rick Galloway, now known as Lord Rick, must unite the warring nations of the planet to survive the time of the Demon Star. Original.
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The User's Guide to Small Computers by Jerry Pournelle ( 1984)
A comprehensive, firsthand overview of the world of computers details the author's introduction to microcomputers, the perils and problems of computer technology, and software.
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West of Honor by Jerry Pournelle ( 1987)
John Christian Falkenberg, a young captain in the CoDominium marines, leads his troops to the planet Arrarat, where there's a violent rebellion.
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