Military Sci Fi writer Jerry Pournelle just passed away.

>>15855437
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World needed more SciFi Authors like him. A /m/an who could not only write but was also an accomplished aerospace engineer. He was literally the engineer who came up with the concept of Rods from God.

>>15855437
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Did he ever get to finish the next installment of his Janissaries series? At least other authors got to play around in his CoDominium/Empire/Motie setting.

>>15855437
Shit, he did? That's a shame, I wasn't expecting this news. We certainly have lost a good one, he came up with a lot of cool ideas. P

>>15855437
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Sad news. Everyone was upset about Prince and Bowie dying last year. But it feels like we're losing the greats of fiction as well.

>>15855437
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I don't read many books. What's his style like, and what's a good first recommendation, if High Justice isn't already one?

>military
fuck off

>>15855437
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Loved your stuff, Jerry.

>>15855778
The Mote in God's Eye. Co-written with Niven.

>>15855437
P. I think I'm going to (re-)read High Justice this weekend in honor.

>>15855778
His stuff can be reasonably hard (I like it, and my favorite author of all time is Lem, which should be some kind of indicator), which is probably from the aerospace engineer side. The stuff by him that I've read feels very exploratory: there's an idea of scenario, and he plays it out as best he can. The idea is more of the focus than any character or struggle is.

As >>15855829 said, Mote is a really good one. Footfall also deserves to be mentioned.

>>15855437
May the man rest in peace.

Can anyone list 5-10 really good sci-fi authors? People not as well known as Philip K Dick, Frank Herbert, etc,

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He was a legend

>>15855866
>Footfall also deserves to be mentioned
Footfall is easily the best hard scifi alien invasion story. Niven and Pournelle at their best.

>>15855877
E.E. 'Doc' Smith, Edmond Hamilton, Leigh Bracket, Alfred Bester, Poul Anderson, Clifford D. Simak, C.L. Moore, A. E. van Vogt, Stanley Weinbaum

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>>15855926
>Edmond Hamilton
I read Star Wolf and some of his Captain Future. Fun stuff.

>>15855866
I have to note that High Justice is a collection of short stories supposedly set early in the timeline which includes Mote in God's Eye, although there doesn't seem to be much connecting it with what would become the CoDominium. With regards to the cover blurb in the OP, 'interplanetary monsters' means 'various governments & corporations,' as the stories are generally low-key corporate affairs with few action scenes.

I personally prefer the stories involving Falkenberg's Legion.

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>>15855877
Iain M Banks.

What's the best Pournelle book for a beginner?

>>15855673
As far as I know his last work seems to be a collaboration with some other authors on a California secession anthology.

>>15861649

t. underaged nobody

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>>15861475
>>15855778

Go for 'Legacy of Heorot', it's got a bunch of fun 'Oh, Shit!' moments.

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>>15855437
I will pay my respects by asking for a Mega of his books.

>>15861649
John Scalzi browses /m/?

>>15861475
Mote in God's eye

>>15864651
They're giving out free copies of There Will Be War vol 2 on Amazon right now.

>>15855437
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Footfall is what all HFY stories should be.

>>15855437
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>>15855926
>Clifford D. Simak

He was a good "idea guy" but not a great writer. Pournelle's non-fiction was better than his fiction, but some if it is dated, like when he bought into the overpopulation myth in the 70's.

>>15855877
John C. Wright
Gene Wolfe
Brad R. Torgersen
Murray Leinster
Cordwainer Smith