Almost anything Pournelle did was excellent. He was freaking brilliant. For Real.
Oh yeah, I was a serious Pournelle fan for decades, read pretty much everything he wrote. The novels, the Byte articles, his blog (he hated the word), which last is still online. I called him a true modern Renaissance man, he knew a lot about a lot of things. I wish he had been on the NSC post 9/11 and we’d gone down the path to energy independence from the Middle East he favored, vs. going to war.
And I’m about 225 pages into 1632. I suspect before it’s over I’ll be $100 or more into this, lol.