Books by Jerry Pournelle and Complete Book Reviews
Jerry Pournelle, Author, S. M. Stirling, Author, S. M. Stirling, Joint Author Baen Books $28 (1168p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3556-7
Military SF fans of the Falkenberg legion saga will need to be in fighting trim to lug home The Prince, by Jerry Pournelle and S.M. Sterling. This hefty compendium includes the four novels Falkenberg's Legion, Prince of Mercenaries, Go Tell...
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Larry Niven, Author, Jerry Pournelle, Author . Tor $24.95 (332p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1632-5
In the long-awaited sequel to 1976's Hugo and Nebula–nominated Inferno
, dead science fiction writer Allen Carpenter returns to the nine circles of Dante's Hell on a quest. After witnessing infamous fascist dictator Benito Mussolini (
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Larry Niven, Author, Jerry Pournelle, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-671-79574-0
This adequate but inconsequential sequel to The Mote in God's Eye explores xenophobia and overpopulation in a futuristic world. (Jan.)
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Larry Niven, Author, Jerry Pournelle, Author, Jerry Pournelle, Joint Author Atria Books $24.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-671-03660-7
Bestselling authors Niven and Pournelle (Footfall; The Gripping Hand; etc.) have produced yet another hefty fantasy (set in Niven's The Magic Goes Away series) sure to delight fans of sword, sorcery and male superiority. In the implausibly organized
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Larry Niven, Author, Jerry Pournelle, Author, Jerry Pournelle, With Simon & Schuster $17.45 (368p) ISBN 978-0-671-64094-1
Barnes has joined the co-authors of Footfall to produce an entertaining if uncomplicated SF version of Beowulfwith a Grendel courtesy of the Alien movies. The colonists from Earth have spent a century in cold sleep to make the first journey, one way,
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Edited by David Farland. Galaxy Press, $15.95 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-61986-575-4
The 34th collection of finalists for
the Writers of the Future competition features expertly crafted and edited
stories and art, running the gamut from humorous to bone-chilling. Speculative fiction is interspersed with essays on the crafts of...
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Edited by John F. Carr. Baen, $16 trade paper (640p) ISBN 978-1-982124-17-5
This thorough collection of short works from the late Pournelle (1933–2017), interspersed with remembrances of his life from colleagues and collaborators, is an engrossing retrospective of the half-century career of a defining author of the military
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Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes. Baen, $25 (416p) ISBN 978-1-9821-2448-9
Fans of the hard sci-fi Heorot series from Niven, Barnes, and the late Pournelle (1933–2017) are likely to feel that the 25-year wait for this final installment (after Beowolf’s Children) was worth it. Mostly complete by the time of Pournelle’s...
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