The Best of Jerry Pournelle

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SHORT STORIES BY A MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION! Includes over a dozen stories by SF legend Jerry Pournelle and remebrances by Pournelle collaborators and admirers. THE GRAND MASTER OF HUGE IDEAS AND STAR-SPANNING WONDER For half a century Jerry Pournelles name has been synonymous with hard-hitting idea-driven wonder-inducing science fiction. His Falkenbergs Legion stories and Janissaries series helped define the military SF genre his CoDominium universe is an SF standard for worldbuilding and future history and his novels with frequent collaborator Larry Niven are some of the most important works science fiction has ever seenand the best-selling and most read. Now for the first time Pournelles best short work is collected together in a single volume. Here are over a dozen short stories each with a new introduction by editor and long-time Pournelle assistant John F. Carr. There is also a cornucopia of Pournelles rampantly imaginative and compelling essays as well as great remembrances by Pournelle collaborators Larry Niven S.M. Stirling and more! About The Best of Jerry Pournelle: . . . showcases a huge swath of Pournelles work including much that were previously unpublished. . . . Fans of Pournelle will love this collection of stories essays and remembrances and others will be glad to discover him.Booklist About Jerry Pournelle: "Possibly the greatest science fiction novel I have ever read."Robert A. Heinlein on The Mote in Gods Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle "Jerry Pournelle is one of science fictions greatest storytellers."Poul Anderson "Jerry Pournelles trademark is first-rate action against well-realized backgrounds of hard science and hardball politics."David Drake "Rousing ... The Best of the Genre"The New York Times "On the cover . . . is the claim No. 1 Adventure Novel of the Year. And well it might be."Milwaukee Journal on Janissaries