Cool
By Mitch Berg
I’ve never been a huge sci-fi fan. I’ve read very little, in fact – I was a history geek, not a sci-fi fan.
One of the very few sci-fi authors I ever really cared about was Jerry Pournelle; he infused his writing with a streak of millenarian libertarianism that grabbed me back when I read that kind of thing.
So I’m just a tad psyched to see that not only does he have a blog, but that he’s linked me.
May 13th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Baby Elephants are invading Kansas!
May 13th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Sorry. That didn’t work right.
Footfall has to be his best story (with Niven).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footfall
May 13th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Footfall is probably my favorite on my very short list of sci-fi books I’ve actually enjoyed.
May 13th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
A more timely Pournelle-Niven-Flynn novel is Fallen Angels , available as a free download at the baen books site, http://www.baen.com/library/067172052X/067172052X.htm
It’s a (mostly) tongue-in-cheek look at global warming as an intellectual and political fad. The premise is that the Earth is actually in a cooling cycle, and that an ice age has only been held off by mankind’s burning of fossil fuel. As a bonus much of the action takes place in Minneapolis.
I once read Pournelle’s blog regularly, but around a year after the Iraq invasion he returned to his buchananite roots. His blog occasionally emits a whiff of good ‘ol catholic anti-semitism these days — or that’s how I read his disdain for the neocons, anyhow.