Jerry Pournelle

Journalist

1933-08-07

Books by Jerry Pournelle

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Mr. Prince, would you like to know the most significant event in the history of freedom?The American Revolution?A defensible choice, a close second even, but not mine. I would choose the moment when the Roman plebians required the patricians to write down the twelve tables of the law and put them where everyone could see them -- thereby proclaimed the law supreme over the politicians. The rule of law is the essence of freedom.
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We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.
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We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.
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Mr. Prince, would you like to know the most significant event in the history of freedom?The American Revolution?A defensible choice, a close second even, but not mine. I would choose the moment when the Roman plebians required the patricians to write down the twelve tables of the law and put them where everyone could see them -- thereby proclaimed the law supreme over the politicians. The rule of law is the essence of freedom.
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And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is.
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Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.
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