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CoDominium
CoDominium is a series of future history novels written by American writer Jerry Pournelle, along with several co-authors, primarily Larry Niven. Series Setting Formation of the CoDominium The point of departure of Pournelle's history is the establishment of the ''CoDominium'' (CD), a political alliance and union between the United States of America and a revitalized Soviet Union. This union, achieved in the name of planetary stability, reigns over the Earth for over a hundred years. In that time, it achieves peace of a sort, as well as interstellar colonization, but at the price of a complete halt in both scientific and political evolution. The CoDominium (CD) is a supranational alliance of the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. This alliance eventually becomes a ''de facto'' planetary government, and later, an interstellar empire. Despite this, no other nations on Earth are given representation or membership. Other major powers become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Prince (anthology)
''The Prince'' is a science fiction compilation by Jerry Pournelle and S. M. Stirling. It is part of the CoDominium future history series. ''The Prince'' is a compilation of four previously published novels: ''Falkenberg's Legion'', ''Prince of Mercenaries'', ''Go Tell The Spartans'', and ''Prince of Sparta''. Of the original novels, the first two were written by Pournelle alone; the last two were cowritten with Stirling. Pages 174–176 of the printed edition are new to the compilation. ''The Prince'' was published by Baen Books in hardcover () in September 2002. The title and subject matter of the book are inspired by ''The Prince'' by Niccolò Machiavelli. Background The CoDominium is an uneasy formal alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union which holds power over Earth, with a cynically hegemonistic foreign policy toward all the other nations of Earth and Earth's off-world colonies. The action occurs over a period from the 2060s to the 2090s. Humanity has d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Of Honor
''The Prince'' is a science fiction compilation by Jerry Pournelle and S. M. Stirling. It is part of the CoDominium future history series. ''The Prince'' is a compilation of four previously published novels: ''Falkenberg's Legion'', ''Prince of Mercenaries'', ''Go Tell The Spartans'', and ''Prince of Sparta''. Of the original novels, the first two were written by Pournelle alone; the last two were cowritten with Stirling. Pages 174–176 of the printed edition are new to the compilation. ''The Prince'' was published by Baen Books in hardcover () in September 2002. The title and subject matter of the book are inspired by ''The Prince'' by Niccolò Machiavelli. Background The CoDominium is an uneasy formal alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union which holds power over Earth, with a cynically hegemonistic foreign policy toward all the other nations of Earth and Earth's off-world colonies. The action occurs over a period from the 2060s to the 2090s. Humanity has de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War World (series)
War World is a series of collaborative science fiction books set in the CoDominium universe of Jerry Pournelle, some novels being co-authored by John F. Carr and Don Hawthorne, as well as Larry Niven and S. M. Stirling. It consists of ten short story anthologies by various authors as well as six novels. Most stories take place on a single world, Haven, and many involve battles between Haven's people and the ruthless, genetically engineered race of supersoldiers called ''Saurons''. The War World Setting The War World series is set mostly on a single world, Haven. It is a marginally habitable moon of a supergiant planet called ''Cat's Eye'', the fourth planet in the Byer's star system. Haven is synchronically tide-locked to its primary, giving it an 86-hour-43-minute-long day-night cycle with respect to Byer's Star and a 131-hour-55-minute Dimday/night cycle with respect to Cat's eye. It has a thin but breatheable atmosphere; this and its distance from Byer's star make surface cond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King David's Spaceship
''King David's Spaceship'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Jerry Pournelle. It was originally published in 1980. Another version appeared as three-part serial in ''Analog'' as ''A Spaceship for the King'' from December 1971 to February 1972. The novel forms part of Pournelle's Future History known as the CoDominium Series. Chronologically, it is second to last in the series, contemporaneous with events in ''The Mote in God's Eye''. In content it resembles Pournelle's military fiction series '' Falkenberg's Legion'', also from the CoDominium series: both depict a capable military leader undertaking a campaign on a backward planet. In this case the leader is from a planet that has recovered technologically to the steam, steel and coal stage, who visits a planet of city states surrounded by barbarians, fighting with medieval weapons. The story shows the conflicting motives of the different factions without demonizing any of them, save possibly the merchants' facti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Spaceship For The King
''King David's Spaceship'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Jerry Pournelle. It was originally published in 1980. Another version appeared as three-part serial in ''Analog'' as ''A Spaceship for the King'' from December 1971 to February 1972. The novel forms part of Pournelle's Future History known as the CoDominium Series. Chronologically, it is second to last in the series, contemporaneous with events in ''The Mote in God's Eye''. In content it resembles Pournelle's military fiction series '' Falkenberg's Legion'', also from the CoDominium series: both depict a capable military leader undertaking a campaign on a backward planet. In this case the leader is from a planet that has recovered technologically to the steam, steel and coal stage, who visits a planet of city states surrounded by barbarians, fighting with medieval weapons. The story shows the conflicting motives of the different factions without demonizing any of them, save possibly the merchants' facti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exiles To Glory
''Exiles to Glory'' is a science fiction novella by American writer Jerry Pournelle, published in 1978. It is a sequel to the stories in the collection ''High Justice''. As with those stories, it weaves the story of pioneering individuals in space with considerations of the technical and financial challenges facing them. It was republished in an omnibus edition with ''High Justice'' in 2009 as '' Exile—and Glory''. Despite being written and published after the landmark novel ''The Mote in God's Eye'', which Pournelle co-authored with Larry Niven, the tone, style and themes of this novel are akin to a juvenile novel of the sort written by Robert A. Heinlein in the 1950s. Pournelle returns to his favorite themes of breakdown of the rule of law, the politics of entitlement and disdain for anti-technology activists. This novel and the collection ''High Justice'' are thought by some to be part of the CoDominium series. However, there is no direct evidence for this in any of the sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
He Fell Into A Dark Hole
"He Fell into a Dark Hole" is a science fiction short story by American writer Jerry Pournelle. Set in his CoDominium future alternative history, it was originally published in the magazine ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'' issue of March 1973. The story was reprinted in ''Warrior: There will be War, Volume V'', edited by Pournelle and John F. Carr. The story tells of a CoDominium spaceship sent on a search and rescue mission. However, the mission becomes complicated due to a natural phenomenon. Background The short story is set in the late 21st century. In Pournelle's fictional milieu, this is the era of the CoDominium. The CD is an alliance between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, who jointly control Earth and an interstellar empire. To keep their rule over the world, the CoDominium routinely suppresses all scientific research and development. Scientists are censored, spied upon, and can even be deported off Earth. Interst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mote In God's Eye
''The Mote in God's Eye'' is a science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, first published in 1974. The story is set in the distant future of Pournelle's CoDominium universe, and charts the first contact between humanity and an alien species. The title of the novel is a reference to the Biblical "The Mote and the Beam" parable and is the nickname of a star. ''The Mote in God's Eye'' was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards in 1975. Setting ''The Mote in God's Eye'' (originally titled ''Motelight'') is set in Pournelle's CoDominium universe, where a union of the United States and the Soviet Union produced a world government and a number of colonies in other star systems, followed by nuclear war on Earth and the rise of the First Empire based on the planet Sparta several centuries before the events of the novel. There is a reference to these events in Pournelle's novel '' King David's Spaceship''. Many, but not all, humans are part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gripping Hand
''The Gripping Hand'' is a science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, published in 1993. A sequel to their 1974 work ''The Mote in God's Eye'', ''The Gripping Hand'' is, chronologically, the last novel to be set in the CoDominium universe (though in 2010, Pournelle's daughter, Jennifer, published an authorized sequel entitled ''Outies''). In the United Kingdom, it was released as ''The Moat around Murcheson's Eye'' (sometimes misspelled "The Mote around Murchison's Eye"). ''The Gripping Hand'' is set in the year 3042 (twenty-five years after the events of ''The Mote in God's Eye'') and revolves primarily around two characters of the first book, Captain Sir Kevin Renner (ISN, Reserve) and His Excellency Horace Bury, Imperial Trader Magnate. It also resolves many of the conflicts and tension remaining from the preceding novel, but much of the plot cannot be understood without reading ''The Mote in God's Eye''. Plot At the end of ''The Mote in God' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Future History
A future history is a postulated history of the future and is used by authors of science fiction and other speculative fiction to construct a common background for fiction. Sometimes the author publishes a timeline of events in the history, while other times the reader can reconstruct the order of the stories from information provided therein. Background The term appears to have been coined by John W. Campbell, Jr., the editor of ''Astounding Science Fiction'', in the February 1941 issue of that magazine, in reference to Robert A. Heinlein's ''Future History''. Neil R. Jones is generally credited as the first author to create a future history.Ashley, M. (April, 1989). The Immortal Professor, Astro Adventures No.7, p.6. A set of stories which share a backdrop but are not really concerned with the sequence of history in their universe are rarely considered future histories. For example, neither Lois McMaster Bujold's ''Vorkosigan Saga'' nor George R. R. Martin's 1970s sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birth Of Fire
''Birth of Fire'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Jerry Pournelle. It was first published by Laser Books in 1976, later published by Baen Books. It is related to the books '' Exiles to Glory'' and ''High Justice High, middle and low justices are notions dating from Western feudalism to indicate descending degrees of judicial power to administer justice by the maximal punishment the holders could inflict upon their subjects and other dependents. Low just ...'', and with those two, form a starting point for the CoDominium series. Plot The book starts out in a year sometime between 2000 and 2050. It begins with Garrett Pittson, a respected gang member who hasn't found his path in life, caught in the middle of a gang war and then caught by the police. He is sentenced to prison for twenty years but takes up his lawyer's offer of being shipped out to a colony on Mars where the conditions are rough and the pay unfair. Once arriving the events stir up and he ends up p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Eugene Pournelle (; August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, a science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he worked in the aerospace industry, but eventually focused on his writing career. In an obituary in ''Gizmodo'', he is described as "a tireless ambassador for the future." Pournelle's hard science fiction writing received multiple awards. In addition to his solo writing, he wrote several novels with collaborators including Larry Niven. Pournelle served a term as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Pournelle's journalism focused primarily on the computer industry, astronomy, and space exploration. From the 1970s until the early 1990s, he contributed to the computer magazine ''Byte'', writing from the viewpoint of an intelligent user, with the oft-cited credo, "We do this stuff so you won't ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |