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Jerry Pournelle is quite a well published author, and he is in fact also a blogger.
Elevate Your Writing By Using Well-Positioned Quotes | Write to Done 2010
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Ive worked with smart and capable conservatives over the decadesJerry Pournelle is a good friend of mineand whats happening in Washington now is scary in the extreme to civil libertarians of all political stripes.
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So I never bothered with scads of offerings, represented by but not restricted to: Jordan, Meyer, Rowland, military SF (which includes most of Heinlein and all of Pournelle), all Tolkienesque clones, nearly all of the so-called Golden Age (which should really be called the Age of Lead).
Voice Of The Fans: What Books Have You Stopped Reading? 2010
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Her work does compare favorably to similarly contructed-to-make-a-point but otherwise impractical universes like, say, Lucifer's Hammer by Niven and Pournelle or maybe the Gor series (where uncompromising women also get to enjoy sex without stooping to saying yes.)
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Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle adapted it as the MacArthur for The Mote in God's Eye, with Rick Sternbach rendering a painting of it for their Galaxy magazine article on the writing of that novel.
MIND MELD: The Best Spaceships in Written Science Fiction 2010
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Frum (as Jerry Pournelle puts it, the egregious Frum) is the one who read the libertarians and paleocons who questioned the Iraq War out of the conservative movement.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement 2010
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Jerry Pournelle likes the possibility of placing solar power satellites in orbit and having them beam energy to earth as microwaves.
Energy in 2050, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Fallen Angels (1991) is a Prometheus Award-winning novel by science fiction authors Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn
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A dissenting view came from Jerry Pournelle and Stefan Possony in their 1968 book “Strategy of Technology.”
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Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, in their 1976 novel, "Inferno," describing the escape of a sci-fi author from Hell, followed Dante's example by fitting their contemporaries into the appropriate places of torment.
And So It Went Tom Shippey 2011
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