Jerry Pournelle (1933–2017)
Autor/a de The Mote in God's Eye
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Jerry Pournelle
Life Among the Asteroids (The Endless Frontier, Vol. 4) (1992) — Editor; Col·laborador — 34 exemplars
Pournelle's PC Communications Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Productivity With a Modem (1992) 6 exemplars
Reflex [short story] 3 exemplars
Contrattacco su Marte 2 exemplars
L'incognita dei Grendel 2 exemplars
endless frontier 2 exemplars
In Appreciation: Robert A. Heinlein {essay} 1 exemplars
His Truth Goes Marching On {short story} 1 exemplars
A Pegada II Livro 2 1 exemplars
Another Step Further Out 1 exemplars
Two Steps Farther Out 1 exemplars
The Endless Frontier 1 exemplars
The Endless Frontier vol II 1 exemplars
The Craft of Science Fiction 1 exemplars
The truth goes marching on 1 exemplars
Mote Lite 1 exemplars
From Inferno [Short Story] 1 exemplars
From Oath Of Fealty [Short Story] 1 exemplars
Excerpt From The Mote In God's Eye 1 exemplars
the survival of freedom 1 exemplars
In the Hall of the Mountain King — Autor — 1 exemplars
Peace With Honor 1 exemplars
Jenseits des Gewissens. 1 exemplars
CoDominium The Prince (1-5) 1 exemplars
Bind Your Sons To Exile 1 exemplars
Obres associades
A History of Strategy: From Sun Tzu to William S. Lind (2015) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 30 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCIII, No. 5 (July 1974) (1974) — Col·laborador — 26 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCI, No. 4 (June 1973) (1973) — Col·laborador — 23 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXIX, No. 6 (August 1972) (1972) — Col·laborador — 21 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCV, No. 8 (August 1975) (1975) — Col·laborador — 21 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXIX, No. 5 (July 1972) (1972) — Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 5 (January 1972) (1971) — Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCIII, No. 1 (March 1974) (1974) — Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 4 (December 1971) (1971) — Col·laborador; Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 6 (February 1972) (1972) — Col·laborador — 18 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCI, No. 1 (March 1973) (1973) — Col·laborador — 18 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCI, No. 3 (May 1973) (1973) — Col·laborador — 18 exemplars
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1974, Vol. 46, No. 6 (1974) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 15 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Pournelle, Jerry Eugene
- Altres noms
- Curtis, Wade
Pournelle, J. E. - Data de naixement
- 1933-08-07
- Data de defunció
- 2017-09-08
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Causa de la mort
- heart failure
- Llocs de residència
- Shreveport, Louisiana, USA (birthplace)
Capleville, Tennessee, USA
Studio City, California, USA - Educació
- University of Washington (BS|Psychology and Mathematics)
University of Washington (MS|Experimental Statistics and Systems Engineering)
University of Washington (PhD|Psychology and Political Science) - Professions
- writer
essayist
journalist
author - Relacions
- Pournelle, J. R. (daughter)
- Organitzacions
- 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 (mostra-les totes 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 - Premis i honors
- 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)
Membres
Converses
teotwawki, scientist with diabetes saves technology texts a Name that Book (febrer 2016)
Inferno by Larry Niven / Return from Tomorrow by George G Ritchie....coincidence? a Science Fiction Fans (abril 2013)
Science Fiction book about Space Colonization a Name that Book (febrer 2012)
Based on Dante's inferno - man travels through hell, meets Mussolini? a Name that Book (octubre 2011)
Niven and Pournelle a Science Fiction Fans (agost 2011)
fantasy dragon/phoniex tattoo a Name that Book (desembre 2010)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Best Dystopias (1)
1970s (2)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 144
- També de
- 41
- Membres
- 36,413
- Popularitat
- #507
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 472
- ISBN
- 483
- Llengües
- 15
- Preferit
- 32
- Quant a
- 1
- Pedres de toc
- 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.… (més)