I’m saddened by the passing away of author Jerry Pournelle, whose novel The Mote in God’s Eye, co-authored with Larry Niven, is one of the great SF novels of the 20th century.
Jerry Pournelle
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9 September 2017 at 17:24
Good bye to the man who gave us John Christian Falkenberg and his Mercenary Legion.
RIP
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9 September 2017 at 17:58
One of the masters of Military SF.
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9 September 2017 at 18:58
Along with Gordon R. Dickson (Dorsai) and David Drake (Hammers Slammers)
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9 September 2017 at 19:25
Indeed.
I’m a big Drake fan, and I read the whole Dorsai cycle (and a lot of other Dickson – including The Dragon and the George) when I was in high school.
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10 September 2017 at 02:02
Pournelle wrote lively and insightful stuff on computers, including a column for Byte in the 1980’s. Jerry was a CP/M fan — he backed up his writings on 8″ floppy disks. 🙂
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10 September 2017 at 10:36
My goodness, 8″ floppys… the memories 😀
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10 September 2017 at 15:10
And I read the Dorsai stories when they were serialized in ANALOG Magazine.
The Good Old days! 🙂
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