Jerry Pournelle

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Jerry Eugene Pournelle (* 7 August 1933 in Shreveport , Louisiana , † 8. September 2017 in Studio City , Los Angeles , California ) was an American journalist and science fiction - author . He became internationally known for a series of science fiction novels, which were created in collaboration with Larry Niven , and which became bestsellers in the USA, in particular The Splinter in the Eye of God (1974) and Lucifer's Hammer (1977). From 1982 onwards, Pournelle became known to a broader American audience for his highly regarded column in the computer magazine Byte .

Life

During the Korean War , Jerry Pournelle served as an artillery officer in the US Army . In the late 1950s he worked in the research department of the aircraft manufacturer Boeing , where he developed the theoretical concept for the Thor project, which was basically about dropping kinetic masses from an earth orbit onto targets on earth, i.e. the earth from space from shooting at. Pournelle completed various courses at the University of Washington; there he obtained a Master of Science degree in experimental statistics and systems engineering . He received his doctorate in philosophy in psychology and political science in 1964 .

On behalf of the US military, he revised Project 75 , a study originally carried out in 1964 on the means required for national defense until 1975. As a research fellow, he worked for Aerospace Corporation and the North American Rockwell Space Division, and was founding president of the Pepperdine Research Institute .

In 1970 Pournelle was an advisor to PELA (Professional Educators of Los Angeles), an association of educators who opposed the unionization of teachers. In his intellectual career he was sponsored by Russell Kirk and Stefan T. Possony . Together with Possony he wrote numerous military-technical publications, including The Strategy of Technology in 1970 , which became the standard textbook at the major American military academies. In 1989, he campaigned with Max Hunter and retired Army General Lieutenant Daniel O. Graham in a presentation to Vice President Dan Quayle for promoting the development of the DC-X missile . Pournelle maintained close contacts with Republican conservative circles; one of his closest friends was the politician and lobbyist Newt Gingrich . In 1985 he wrote the foreword to Gingrich's book Window of Opportunity .

Jerry Pournelle achieved great popularity as a journalist for the computer magazine Byte . His column, which has been published there since 1982 and depicting personal experiences with PCs, software and networking, was entitled CHAOS MANOR: The User's Column . It was a flagship of the magazine, which ceased its publication in August 1998. In order to test networking technologies and to stay in contact with readers via the early social networks, long before the beginning of the World Wide Web , Pournelle used the online service GEnie , where he moderated his own forum ("RoundTable").

After the end of Byte, he started writing under Chaos Manor Mail and The View from Chaos Manor in what would later be called a blog in what would become a chronicle-like form . A monthly column was published under Chaos Manor Reviews since 2006, continuing the tradition of the column published by Byte.

Pournelle was also an editor and columnist for the military magazine Survive in the 1980s . He was a member of the Human Biodiversity Institute, an online round table of high-ranking scientists and intellectuals founded by Steve Sailer, an American journalist, columnist and film critic.

In 2008 it became known that Jerry Pournelle suffers from a brain tumor, which, however, claims to have been treated. Pournelle died on September 8, 2017 at the age of 84.

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Pournelles model

Pournelle's dissertation was entitled The American political continuum; an examination of the validity of the left-right model as an instrument for studying contemporary American political "isms" . In it he presented a model of the political spectrum that classifies political currents in two dimensions:

Statism
Views are classified along this axis according to whether they want a strong state or whether the state should ideally not exist at all.
rationalism
This axis describes whether the political current assumes that society can be improved through common sense , or whether every attempt should not be made at all. A lack of “rationalism” is not to be understood as “irrational”, but as “anti-rationalism”. Rationalists believe that social development can be planned and controlled, while the “anti-rationalist” criticizes this as utopia .

Awards

Pournelle was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America from 1973 to 1974 . He was also a Fellow of the Operations Research Society of America , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the Order of Lazarus .

bibliography

Series and cycles

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

CoDominium
  • A Spaceship for the King also: King David's Spaceship (1973)
  • West of Honor (1976)
  • The Mercenary (1976)
The splitter cycle

(with Larry Niven)

inferno

(with Larry Niven)

  • Inferno (1976)
  • Escape from Hell (2009)
Janissaries
Heorot

(with Larry Niven and Steven Barnes )

  • The Legacy of Heorot (1987)
  • Beowulf's Children (also: The Dragons of Heorot , 1995)
Falkenberg's Legion
  • Prince of Mercenaries (1989)
  • Falkenberg's Legion (1990)
  • Go Tell the Spartans (1991, with SM Stirling )
  • Prince of Sparta (1993, with SM Stirling)
Was world
  • Burning Eye (1989, with John F. Carr )
  • Death's Head Rebellion (1990, with John F. Carr)
  • Sauron Dominion (1991, with John F. Carr)
  • Codominium: Revolt on War World (1992, with John F. Carr)
  • Invasion (1994)
Jupiter
Golden Road

(with Larry Niven)

  • The Burning City (2000)
  • The Burning Tower (2005)
Man-Kzin
  • The Houses of the Kzinti (2002, with Dean Ing and SM Stirling)

Single novels

  • Red Heroin (1965, as Wade Curtis)
  • Red Dragon (1970, as Wade Curtis)
  • Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1974)
    • English: Escape from the Planet of the Apes. Pabel, 1976.
  • Birth of Fire (1976)
  • High Justice (1977)
  • Lucifer's Hammer (1977, with Larry Niven)
  • Exiles to Glory (1978)
  • Oath of Fealty (1981, with Larry Niven). ISBN 1416555161 (reprinted 2007).
  • Footfall (1985, with Larry Niven)
  • Fallen Angels (1991, with Larry Niven and Michael F. Flynn )
  • Cities in Space (1991, with John F. Carr)
  • The Children's Hour (1991, with SM Stirling)
  • Prince (2002, with SM Stirling)

As editor

There will be war
  • There Will Be War (1982)
  • Men of War (1984)
  • Blood and Iron (1984, with John F. Carr)
  • Day of the Tyrant (1985, with John F. Carr)
  • Warrior (1986)
  • Guns of Darkness (1987)
  • Call to Battle (1988, with John F. Carr)
  • Armageddon! (1989, with John F. Carr)
  • After Armageddon (1990)
Far Frontiers

(with Jim Baen )

  • Far Frontiers (1985)
  • Far Frontiers 2 (1985)
  • Far Frontiers 3 (1985)
  • Far Frontiers 4 (1986)
  • Far Frontiers 5 (1986)
  • Far Frontiers 6 (1986)
  • Far Frontiers 7 (1986)
Imperial Stars

(with John F. Carr)

  • The Stars At War (1986)
  • Republic and Empire (1987)
  • The Crash of Empire (1989)
Single anthologies
  • 2020 Vision (1974)
  • Black Holes and other marvels (1978)
  • The Endless Frontier (1979, with John F. Carr)
  • The Survival of Freedom (2000, with John F. Carr)

Non-fiction

  • The Strategy of Technology: Winning the Decisive War (1970, with Stefan T. Possony)
  • That Buck Rogers Stuff (1977)
  • The Mathematics of the Energy Crisis (1978, with R. Gagliardi)
  • A Step Farther Out (1980)
  • The User's Guide to Small Computers (1984)
  • Mutual Assured Survival: A Space-Age Solution to Nuclear Annihilation (1984, with Dean Ing)
  • Adventures in Microland ( Pournelle Users Guide # 11, 1985)
  • Guide to Disc Operating System and Easy Computing (1989)
  • Pournelle's PC Communications Bible (1992, with Michael Banks )
  • Windows with an Attitude (1993)
  • PC Hardware: The Definitive Guide (2003)
  • 1001 Computer Words You Need to Know (2004)
dissertation
  • The American political continuum; an examination of the validity of the left-right model as an instrument for studying contemporary American political "isms." University of Washington , 1964, OCLC 19908362 (English).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Strategy of Technology is part of the curriculum at the West Point Military Academy , the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, and the National War College .
  2. ↑ The Last Chaos Manor Byte Column
  3. ↑ Chaos Manor Mail
  4. ^ The View from Chaos Manor
  5. ↑ Chaos Manor Reviews
  6. ↑ Steve Sailer
  7. ↑ Jerry Pournelle: All Ends of the Spectrum: An Appendix . In: The Stars at War (=  Imperial Stars . Band 1 ). 1986, ISBN 0-671-65603-1 (English, http://www.baen.com/chapters/axes.htm ( Memento of April 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) ).
  8. ↑ Mr. Larry Niven and Dr. Jerry Pournelle Named Recipients of 2005 Heinlein Award , Heinlein Society Press Release November 4, 2005, accessed June 26, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Pournelle, Jerry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pournelle, Jerry Eugene (full name); Curtis, Wade (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Shreveport , Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 2017
Place of death Studio City , Los Angeles , California