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Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Pournelle
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Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Pournelle (right), a past winner of the John W. Campbell Award, has collaborated with Niven on numerous bestsellers. He has also written such successful solo novels as Janissaries and Starswarm. He lives in Studio City, California.Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle were the joint winners of the 2005 Robert A. Heinlein Award.

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Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Burning Tower
Apr 05, 2013
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Excerpt 1 from The Mote in God's Eye
Apr 05, 2013
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Excerpt 1 from The Burning City
Dec 08, 2012
The Burning City will be released on December 14, 2010 in eBook
Dec 14, 2010
The Burning City is now available in eBook
Dec 14, 2010
Fires of Freedom will be released on June 29, 2010 in Mass Market Paperback
Jun 29, 2010
Fires of Freedom is now available in Mass Market Paperback
Jun 29, 2010
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Burning Tower
Dec 02, 2009
Exile---and Glory will be released on August 25, 2009 in Mass Market Paperback
Aug 25, 2009
Exile---and Glory is now available in Mass Market Paperback
Aug 25, 2009
Exile-and Glory will be released on August 05, 2008 in Hardcover
Aug 05, 2008
Exile-and Glory is now available in Hardcover
Aug 05, 2008
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Aug 05, 2008
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Aug 05, 2008
The Burning City will be released on July 21, 2008 in eBook
Jul 21, 2008
The Burning City will be released on July 21, 2008 in eBook
Jul 21, 2008

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Northwest Explorer, April 16, 2013
...Press, 2013). Participating in the ceremony will be best-selling authors Kevin J. Anderson (Dune prequels), Larry Niven (Ringworld), Jerry Pournelle (A Mote in God’s Eye), Tim Powers (On Stranger Tides, which Pirates of the Caribbean IV was based on)...
Guardian.co.uk, April 8, 2013
...to be overthrown. Newt Gingrich, one‑time Republican presidential hopeful, has published SF novels; and books by writers such as Jerry Pournelle, John Ringo and Neal Asher sell extremely well. It's a puzzle – not why these writers sell, for there...
Fayetteville Free Weekly, April 4, 2013
...Press, 2013). Participating in the ceremony will be best-selling authors Kevin J. Anderson (“Dune” prequels), Larry Niven (“Ringworld”), Jerry Pournelle (“A Mote in God’s Eye”), Tim Powers (“On Stranger Tides,” on which the fourth...
Eureka Times-Standard, March 29, 2013
...Press, 2013). Participating in the ceremony will be best-selling authors Kevin J. Anderson (Dune prequels), Larry Niven (Ringworld), Jerry Pournelle (A Mote in God's Eye), Tim Powers (On Stranger Tides, which Pirates of the Caribbean IV was based on)...
Maryland Gazette, March 21, 2013
...Press, 2013). Participating in the ceremony will be best-selling authors Kevin J. Anderson (Dune prequels), Larry Niven (Ringworld), Jerry Pournelle (A Mote in God’s Eye), Tim Powers (On Stranger Tides, which Pirates of the Caribbean IV was based on)...
Digital Journal, March 21, 2013
...multiple Nebula and Hugo Award winners and finalists such as Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Tim Powers, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Silverberg, Dave Wolverton, and Sean Williams, to name a few. “The chance of being...
ShootOnline, February 27, 2013
...Group has acquired the rights to three initial books: "Escape From Furnace," written by Alexander Gordon Smith, Jerry Pournelle's "Janissaries," and "Jexium Island," written by Madeline Grattan. The acquisition of these properties was handled by Alan...
Transterrestrial Musings, January 14, 2013
...to beat. When we wrote this paper, neither of us had read Fallen Angels, in which Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn – back in 1991 – prefigured both the key ideas: that the coming of the next Ice Age is a far greater threat than any...
TWiT, January 7, 2013
...MP3 feed URL:  http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/aolradio.podcast.aol.com/twit/twit0387.mp3 Hosts: Leo Laporte , Clayton Morris , Jerry Pournelle , and John C. Dvorak . Last year's CES, this year's winners, portrait videos, resources in...
Cloud Computing Journal, January 3, 2013
...like a slog to get through this one. Title: The Mote in God’s Eye Author: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle Rating: 3.5/5 stars Quick Review: I did not grow up reading Niven or Pournelle, and discovered Pournelle via his many appearances on TWiT. The...
Virtualization Journal, January 3, 2013
...like a slog to get through this one. Title: The Mote in God’s Eye Author: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle Rating: 3.5/5 stars Quick Review: I did not grow up reading Niven or Pournelle, and discovered Pournelle via his many appearances on TWiT. The...
PR-Canada.net, December 21, 2012
...and Hugo Award winners and finalists such as Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Larry Niven, Nnedi Okorafor, Jerry Pournelle, Tim Powers, Robert J. Sawyer, Mike Resnick and Robert Silverberg, to name a few. Inspired by best-selling author L. Ron...
Beta News, December 21, 2012
...and hope and eventual acceptance about inevitable doom. 3. Lucifer's Hammer . The novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle is a comet story of another kind. There's no passing through the tail but direct impact and devastation and survival that...
Equities.com, December 20, 2012
...and Hugo Award winners and finalists such as Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Larry Niven, Nnedi Okorafor, Jerry Pournelle, Tim Powers, Robert J. Sawyer, Mike Resnick and Robert Silverberg, to name a few. Inspired by best-selling author L. Ron...