RIP-Jerry Pournelle

[E-DUB]

Science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle has passed on. His collaborations with Larry Niven grace many a fans shelf.

https://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/

 

[Cyrus]

Never read any of his books, but I am a big fan of his writing partner Larry Niven.

Love his quote about the moon landing

RIP

 

[Marc]

Only ever read one of his books but knew him more for Chaos Manor column in Byte during the 1980s

 

[Nerys Myk]

Spent many a lunch hour reading his and Niven's novels. To this day the taste of a Burger King Whopper brings back memories of "Footfall".

RIP.

 

[Mysterion]

Well, that's not good news.

Two of my all-time favorite SF novels are The Mote in God's Eye and Footfall which Pournelle did with Larry Niven. Two very different but equally interesting takes on first contact with aliens. I laos enjoyed a lot of his non-fiction writing on the topic of space exploration.

 

[Timewalker]

The first novel of his I read was one of the Laser Books (a line of SF novels put out by Harlequin; no, they were not romance stories; most were decently entertaining space opera).

 

[Greg Cox]

Well, that's not good news.

Two of my all-time favorite SF novels are The Mote in God's Eye and Footfall which Pournelle did with Larry Niven. Two very different but equally interesting takes on first contact with aliens. I laos enjoyed a lot of his non-fiction writing on the topic of space exploration.

I remember enjoying LUCIFER'S HAMMER and INFERNO as well.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The bit with the surfer in "Lucifer's Hammer" is forever imprinted on my brain.

 

[Noname Given]

"Mote In God's Eye"
"Lucifer's Hammer"
"Footfall"
Yep - read and enjoyed them all - RIP.

 

[Snaploud]

RIP

 

[CorporalCaptain]

RIP

 

[publiusr]

Drat...

 

[Greg Cox]

Unmentioned is most of his bios is that Pournelle also wrote the novelization of ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES, which I think I still have a copy of . . ..

 

[gblews]

Though I loved The Mote in God's Eye, Footfall, and to an extent , Lucifer's Hammer, at this time I am reminded of the old saying, "let nothing but good be said about the dead", (or something like that). RIP

 

[Mudd]

Though I loved The Mote in God's Eye, Footfall, and to an extent , Lucifer's Hammer, at this time I am reminded of the old saying, "let nothing but good be said about the dead", (or something like that). RIP

Something like that, yeah.

I enjoyed his collaborations with Niven, because of Niven.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

One of the great authors of modern age sci-fi, and...

Unmentioned is most of his bios is that Pournelle also wrote the novelization of ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES, which I think I still have a copy of . . ..

I have his novelization too, and it adds more direct connections between the events of POTA/BTPOTA and Escape. Not to mention his wonderful building on Hasslein's motives, his theory of time, and the debate with the president.

 

[Mudd]

One of the great authors of modern age sci-fi, and...



I have his novelization too, and it adds more direct connections between the events of POTA/BTPOTA and Escape. Not to mention his wonderful building on Hasslein's motives, his theory of time, and the debate with the president.

Yeah, his attempt to justify terrible acts by Hasslein through appeal to supposedly sympathetic motivation was pure Pournelle. That much is certain.

 

[Australis]

Damn. His and Niven's novels filled in days in the 90s. Plus he had a good book about space travel, A Step Farther Out, which I used for years for working out a TV series bible.

 

[Silvercrest]

The bit with the surfer in "Lucifer's Hammer" is forever imprinted on my brain.

He should have made it.

 

[Nerys Myk]

He should have made it.

I so wanted them to do a movie of "Lucifer's Hammer".