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Synopsis
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 Pournelle's name has been synonymous with hard-hitting, idea-driven, wonder-inducing science fiction. His Falkenberg's 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 seen--and the best-selling and most read.
Now, for the first time, Pournelle's 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 Pournelle's 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 showcases a huge swath of Pournelle's] work, including much that were previously unpublished.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 God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
"Jerry Pournelle is one of science fiction's greatest storytellers."--Poul Anderson
"Jerry Pournelle's 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