Jerry Pournelle (1933–2017)
Författare till The Mote in God's Eye
Om författaren
Jerry Eugene Pournelle was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on August 7, 1933. During the Korean War, he served in the U. S. Army. He received a B.S. in psychology in 1955, an M.S. in psychology in 1958, and a Ph.D. in political science in 1964 from the University of Washington. He worked for Boeing visa mer and NASA where he worked on the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions. He also advised the federal government on military matters and space exploration. He wrote science fiction and helped popularize the military science fiction genre. His first novel, Red Heroin, was published in 1969 under the pen name Wade Curtis. His other novels published under his own name included Janissaries, Starswarm, and The Mercenary. He also wrote novels with Larry Niven including Oath of Fealty, The Mote in God's Eye, Lucifer's Hammer, Inferno, Escape from Hell, and Footfall. Pournelle was widely credited as the first major author to write a published novel entirely on a computer. He wrote a witty advice columns for computer users in Byte magazine. He received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer of 1973. He died of heart failure on September 8, 2017 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Serier
Verk av Jerry Pournelle
Life Among the Asteroids (The Endless Frontier, Vol. 4) (1992) — Redaktör; Bidragsgivare — 34 exemplar
Pournelle's PC Communications Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Productivity With a Modem (1992) 6 exemplar
Reflex [short story] 3 exemplar
endless frontier 2 exemplar
Contrattacco su Marte 2 exemplar
L'incognita dei Grendel 2 exemplar
In Appreciation: Robert A. Heinlein {essay} 1 exemplar
His Truth Goes Marching On {short story} 1 exemplar
A Pegada II Livro 2 1 exemplar
Another Step Further Out 1 exemplar
Two Steps Farther Out 1 exemplar
The Endless Frontier 1 exemplar
The Endless Frontier vol II 1 exemplar
The Craft of Science Fiction 1 exemplar
The truth goes marching on 1 exemplar
Bind Your Sons To Exile 1 exemplar
From Inferno [Short Story] 1 exemplar
From Oath Of Fealty [Short Story] 1 exemplar
Excerpt From The Mote In God's Eye 1 exemplar
the survival of freedom 1 exemplar
Mote Lite 1 exemplar
In the Hall of the Mountain King — Författare — 1 exemplar
Peace With Honor 1 exemplar
Jenseits des Gewissens. 1 exemplar
CoDominium The Prince (1-5) 1 exemplar
Death's Head Redellion 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCIII, No. 5 (July 1974) (1974) — Bidragsgivare — 26 exemplar
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCI, No. 4 (June 1973) (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 23 exemplar
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXIX, No. 6 (August 1972) (1972) — Bidragsgivare — 21 exemplar
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCV, No. 8 (August 1975) (1975) — Bidragsgivare — 21 exemplar
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXIX, No. 5 (July 1972) (1972) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 5 (January 1972) (1971) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCIII, No. 1 (March 1974) (1974) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 4 (December 1971) (1971) — Bidragsgivare; Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 6 (February 1972) (1972) — Bidragsgivare — 18 exemplar
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCI, No. 1 (March 1973) (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 18 exemplar
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCI, No. 3 (May 1973) (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 18 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1974, Vol. 46, No. 6 (1974) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 15 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Pournelle, Jerry Eugene
- Andra namn
- Curtis, Wade
Pournelle, J. E. - Födelsedag
- 1933-08-07
- Avled
- 2017-09-08
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
- Dödsort
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Dödsorsak
- heart failure
- Bostadsorter
- Shreveport, Louisiana, USA (birthplace)
Capleville, Tennessee, USA
Studio City, California, USA - Utbildning
- University of Washington (BS|Psychology and Mathematics)
University of Washington (MS|Experimental Statistics and Systems Engineering)
University of Washington (PhD|Psychology and Political Science) - Yrken
- writer
essayist
journalist
author - Relationer
- Pournelle, J. R. (daughter)
- Organisationer
- United States Army
Pepperdine Research Institute (founding President)
Citizen's Advisory Council on National Space Policy (chair)
The Lunar Society, Inc. (chair)
American Association for the Advancement of Science
British Interplanetary Society (visa alla 14)
Royal Astronomical Society
Operations Research Society of America
American Astronautical Society
American Institute of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineers
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (past President)
Authors Guild
Society for Creative Anachronism
BYTE Magazine - Priser och utmärkelser
- John W. Campbell Award (1973)
American Security Council Bronze Medal (1964)
Robert A. Heinlein Award (2005)
Hubbard Writers/Illustrators of the Future (Lifetime Achievement, 2006)
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
teotwawki, scientist with diabetes saves technology texts i Name that Book (februari 2016)
Inferno by Larry Niven / Return from Tomorrow by George G Ritchie....coincidence? i Science Fiction Fans (april 2013)
Science Fiction book about Space Colonization i Name that Book (februari 2012)
Based on Dante's inferno - man travels through hell, meets Mussolini? i Name that Book (oktober 2011)
Niven and Pournelle i Science Fiction Fans (augusti 2011)
fantasy dragon/phoniex tattoo i Name that Book (december 2010)
Recensioner
Listor
Best Dystopias (1)
1970s (2)
Priser
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Statistik
- Verk
- 145
- Även av
- 41
- Medlemmar
- 36,436
- Popularitet
- #507
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 472
- ISBN
- 483
- Språk
- 15
- Favoritmärkt
- 32
- Om
- 1
- Proberstenar
- 178
The book starts with the discovery of a comet and revolves around the humdrum lives of a bunch of LA locals, tending toward the wealthy socialite class. At first predicted to narrowly miss earth, the comet's odds of hitting escalate steadily the closer it gets to Earth.
The build up to Hammerfall is suitably suspenseful and the impact itself seems to be handled realistically from a scientific point of view. Now our intertwined point-of-view characters must escape the collapse of society, floods and tsunamis to find safety in a world in which the thin veneer of civilisation has been suddenly torn away.
Personally I'm not sure that the immediate reversion of society to violence, rape and cannibalism in the wake of Hammerfall is realistic. When real-life disasters hit people seem to band together for a short time at least. On the other hand, the formation of the cannibal cult coalition seem to parallel the formation of ISIS in a land that has lost all semblance of power structure remarkably well.
My criticisms are similar to other reviewers. The approach to race and gender is ham-fisted. Hammerfall wipes out women's lib (as one character gleefully observes) and women are simply trophies who seek out the strongest male to protect them, and sex appears to be the only tool available to them. Outside the relative civilisation of our protagonists' valley a life of rape or sex-slavery awaits. There's a range of characters who are given point of view in this book but only two are women and neither are the unlucky sort, say for example the girl scouts who have been turned into sex slaves. I guess that while this book is a darker take on the apocalypse, the authors didn't want to go quite that dark.
And that is one point of difference in this book. It's a dark take on the apocalypse that includes that part that most post-apocolyptic works conveniently skip: the End, with all its death and horror and messiness. The characters face some hard moral choices: do they sentence people who do not conform to their new society (teetering on the brink of collapse) to death, do they use horrid chemical weapons against the attacking cannibal army, do they re-introduce slavery?
Unfortunately, all to often they seem to lean on the side of ruthlessness. On one hand, it demonstrates the harshness of the new world, but on the other it feels too much like the authors have an unsavoury agenda to push.
My favourite character was the diabetic scientist who decided in the face of the apocalypse to save books and knowledge for the survivors.
A worthwhile take on the end of the world with its scientific believability and dark themes, but marred by outdated ideas and strange authorial agendas.… (mer)