Posted on 09/08/2017 5:01:44 PM PDT by buwaya
Damn! That SUCKS!
Dang. RIP. One of my favorites. Most everything he wrote or co-wrote was good stuff.
I’m sorry to hear about this. I’ve read many of his works, and have been following him at Chaos Manner. He has been a voice of reason and conservatism.
I hope he’s hanging out with many luminaries right now, laughing at the foibles of the living...
RIP, Dr. Pournelle, and sympathies to his family. That he was active until the end should be of great solace.
One of the true greats of Science Fiction, I will miss you. Thanks very much for all of the entertainment and the thought-provoking essays.
RIP.
Gene Wolf, while not from the Clarke-Farmer-Niven-Pournelle era, is still alive. The finest writer of English living. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wolfe).
Known for his Book of the New Sun series (ranked third-best fantasy novel after Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by readers), and Book of the Long Sun series.
Complete series on both runs 11 novels, I think, and covers about one million years or so.
No. When you get old your contemporaries start dying off. That is why we are surprised when a young person dies.
I know.
I was just kidding.
It does seem like there has been a cluster.
Absolute best summary of the man and his works thus far. Kudos to you, sir. Succinct and accurate.
I really enjoy reading his work.
Because Pournelle was conservative and proud of it, and the Hollyweird heirachy is looney leftist.
What will probably turn out to be Jerry’s biggest contribution to humanity:
From Jerry’s website:
Vox Day has announced that as part of a memorial the first volume of ‘There Will Be War’ will be free on Kindle for three days (starting 10 Sep 2017). See here: http://amzn.to/2famw7N.
I’ve read his SF work, but also enjoyed his personable articles in Byte magazine. He reviewed software and hardware products from a consumer viewpoint and was very knowlegable. He wrote so techies could understand without an advanced degree in electrical engineering or information science. I remember a column he wrote when his leading paragraph was that he was very frustrated with a new computer model because it booted so fast, he didn’t have time to enjoy his morning coffee. :)
Vox Day has announced that as part of a memorial the first volume of ‘There Will Be War’ will be free on Kindle for three days (starting 10 Sep 2017). See here: http://amzn.to/2famw7N.
Yes indeed, get this, Vol I of “There will be war” included:
- A prequel chapter from “Mote in Gods Eye”
- A short story by James Warner Bellah, writer of the short stories on which John Fords “Cavalry” trilogy were baed - “Fort Apache”, “She wore a Yellow Ribbon”, etc.
- The original short story version of “Enders Game”, Orson Scott Card,
etc.
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