Jerry Pournelle -- Available Books

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Adventure 2.7 : IBM PCJR (64K)
Jerry Pournelle / Hardcover / Published June 1985
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Beowulf's Children (The Dragons of Heorot)
Jerry Pournelle, et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published August 1999
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A group of young rebels, the new generation of the island paradise of Camelot, sets out for the mainland, ready to fight any Grendels that obstruct their path, but on Avalon the monsters are much larger than they had expected. Reprint. PW.

Birth of Fire
Jerry Pournelle, Jerry Pournell / Mass Market Paperback / Published June 1987
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Birth Of Fire is the story of Garrett Pittston, wrongly convicted of murder. Pittston faces a choice: life in prison, or near-slavery on Mars. Under the appalling conditions imposed by those who run the mines from Earth, Pittston and his fellow workers start a revolution to wrest their freedom from the penal colony. Display advertising in science fiction publications. Previously published by Pocket Books.

Blood Vengeance (War World)
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Three hundred years after the Saurons arrived on Haven and wiped out all technology save their own, one woman unites the many tribes of Haven to overthrow the Sauron overlords.

Codominium: Revolt on War World
Jerry Pournelle / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1992
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Tempered by the forces of evolution to become the greatest survivors of all species, the residents of the Haven battle humans in the years before the coming of the Saurons.

Falkenberg's Legion
Jerry Pournelle / Mass Market Paperback / Published December 1991
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Footfall
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle / Paperback / Published May 1997
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"NOBODY DOES IT BETTER THAN NIVEN AND POURNELLE. I LOVED IT!"--Tom Clancy They first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. Since the ringed planet carries no life, scientists deduce the mysterious ship to be a visitor from another star. The world's frantic efforts to signal the aliens go unanswered. The first contact is hostile: the invaders blast a Soviet space station, seize the survivors, and then destroy every dam and installation on Earth with a hail of asteriods. Now the conquerors are descending on the American heartland, demanding...

Footfall
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1996
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"NOBODY DOES IT BETTER THAN NIVEN AND POURNELLE. I LOVED IT!"--Tom Clancy They first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. Since the ringed planet carries no life, scientists deduce the mysterious ship to be a visitor from another star. The world's frantic efforts to signal the aliens go unanswered. The first contact is hostile: the invaders blast a Soviet space station, seize the survivors, and then destroy every dam and installation on Earth with a hail of asteriods. Now the conquerors are descending on the American heartland, demanding...

High Justice
Jerry Pournelle / Mass Market Paperback / Published June 1991
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Higher Education : A Jupiter Novel
Charles Sheffield, Jerry Pournelle (Contributor) / Mass Market Paperback / Published April 1997
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Kicked out of school after a misfired practical joke, Rick Luban takes a job mining asteroids and is surprised by the industry's fierce competition and dangers, which include sabotage and murder. Reprint. AB. PW.

Higher Education; A Jupiter Novel
Charles Sheffield, Jerry Pournelle (Contributor) / Hardcover / Published June 1996
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Kicked out of school because of a practical joke that backfires, Rick Luban gets a second chance when he signs up for a career in asteroid mining and discovers that life in space is far more challenging than he had ever imagined.

Invasion (War World Iv)
Jerry Pournelle / Mass Market Paperback / Published August 1994
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Escaping near destruction of their battle-demon species, the genetically engineered Saurons seek refuge on Haven, a dumping ground for the criminals of the CoDominium, whose population has been shaped by centuries of violence.

Janissaries
Jerry Pournelle, Jerry Poumelle / Mass Market Paperback / Published March 1996
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Captain Rick Galloway and his men had been talked into volunteering for a dangerous mission--inly to be ruthlessly abandoned when faceless CIA higher-ups pulled the plug on the operation. They were cut off in hostile territory, with local troops and their Cuban "advisors" rapidly closing in. And then the alien spacceship landed. Reissue.

Lucifer's Hammer
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1983
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The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival--a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known....

Lucifer's Hammer
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle / Paperback / Published January 1998
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"MASSIVELY ENTERTAINING." --Cleveland Plain-Dealer "A WORK IN THE GRAND TRADITION." --Los Angeles Times "A MEGATON OF SUSPENSEFUL EXCITEMENT . . . which should keep readers going non-stop, cover to cover." --Library Journal "Take your earthquakes, waterlogged condominiums, swarms of bugs, colliding airplanes, and flaming what-nots, wrap them up and they wouldn't match one page of Lucifer's Hammer for sweaty-palmed suspense." --Chicago Daily News

Man-Kzin Wars V
Larry Niven, et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published October 1992
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After losing three significant battles to the humans, the Kzin begin to wonder if their combative diplomatic style is working and decide to reevaluate their strategy.

Oath of Fealty
Larry Niven, et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published August 1982
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This was one of our more interesting efforts, closer to straight near-term science fiction than some of our works. It introduced the phrase think of it as evolution in action that has become pretty popular.

Prince of Mercenaries (Falkenberg's Legion)
Jerry Pournelle / Mass Market Paperback / Published March 1989
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For a century the Americans and Soviets had maintained an uneasy alliance based on a new world order. But the CoDominium is decaying, and the future belongs to colony worlds like Sparta--if they can survive Earth's death-throes. To do that they will need men who understand war, men like mercenary commander John Christian Falkenberg, and Lysander, Prince of Sparta--the first Prince of Mercenaries. Original.

Prince of Sparta; A Novel of Falkenberg's Legion
Jerry Pournelle, S. M. Stirling / Mass Market Paperback / Published March 1993
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After defeating the initial assault of Grand Senator Bronson's Helot armies, the Spartans arm themselves to fend off another Helot attack, this one designed to exterminate the Spartans as a people.

Starswarm : A Jupiter Novel
Jerry Pournelle / Hardcover / Published May 1998
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Kip suspects that the voice in his head that guides his decision-making is some sort of artificial intelligence, a chip implanted in his skull by his parents before they were persecuted and killed. Now, through the chip, he learns that his own well being, and that of his home, outpost Starswarm, is in grave danger.

Starswarm : A Jupiter Novel
Jerry Pournelle / Mass Market Paperback / Published August 1999
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Kip has a secret. A young boy who lives with his uncle at the remote Starswarm Station, Kip has heard a voice in his head for as long as he can remember. The voice, an artificial intelligence chip implanted in his skull, guides him in all his decisions, helping out with useful information and insight. When Kip finally discovers the truth behind who put the chip there and why, he is suddenly confronted with a powerful revelation that may put his own life and the whole outpost in grave danger.

The Burning City
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle / Hardcover / Published March 2000
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The Children's Hour
Jerry Pournelle, S. M. Stirling (Contributor) / Mass Market Paperback / Published January 1994
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The fastest way to get ahead in Kzin society is to cut through the endless challenges and duels to the death--and take on your father. But Chuut-Riit, Planetary Governor of occupied planet Wunderland, is teaching his kits a new way--the way of the humans. And the humans don't like it, at all. Expanded from parts of Man-Kzin Wars II and Man-Kzin Wars III.

The Gripping Hand
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle / Mass Market Paperback / Published January 1994
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A quarter century after humanity quarantines the aliens known as Moties within the confines of their own solar system, the single wall between them and the galaxy beyond begins to crumble. Reprint. K. PW.

The Legacy of Heorot
Larry Niven, et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published September 1989
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Bestselling science-fiction superstars Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle combine their talents with those of rising young author Steven Barnes in an extraordinary adventure of humankind's first outpost in the farthest reaches of space. 5 maps.

The Man-Kzin Wars II
Larry Niven(Creator), et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1994
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The alien Kzinti had almost conquered the humans, but after the initial surprise, the humans fought back with a ferocity the Kzinti had never faced. But that was centuries ago, and the humiliation of lost battles has not faded. The Kzinti are back . . . and spoiling for a fight! Includes stories by Larry Niven, Dean Ing, Jerry Pournelle and S.M.

The Mote in God's Eye
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle / Mass Market Paperback / Published February 1987
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In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive. No other intelligent beings have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system carrying a dead alien. The probe is traced to the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud, and an expedition is dispatched.

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