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Political subtexts — always evident in both main collaborators' solo work — tend in their joint efforts to surface rather more frequently, to the discomfort of some readers, especially those unaccustomed to the restricted range of political discourse utterable in America without arousing contumely though within that narrow range its expression is singularly open ; other readers find the books refreshingly "robust".

Solo or in the absence of Niven, most of Pournelle's work not devoted to the CoDominium also focuses on issues of Future War and the decorums and tactics of waging war. The Janissaries sequence — Janissaries , Janissaries: Clan and Crown with Roland J Green and Janissaries 3: Storms of Victory , again with Green — returns to explicit warfare, describing a mercenary leader's efforts to unify the planet to which he and his soldiers have been transplanted.

The short Jupiter sequence — comprising Higher Education February-May Analog ; with Charles Sheffield and Starswarm , initially confronts settlers with problems of Ecology on Jupiter , and is relatively calm. Pournelle was the first recipient of the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer in , and very rapidly established himself as a dominant creator of the politically conservative-libertarian Hard-SF tale.

His Military SF significantly shaped that subgenre as well; it would be unfair to blame him for the excesses of some of his imitators, though his contempt for the stereotyped Villains in his work — liberals and Ecology activists prominent among them — was perhaps more suitable to traditional Space Opera than to nuanced Politics. For many decades he unswervingly advocated the benefits of Invention and vigorously applied Technology in the making of a better world, an advocacy that shapes even his lightest works of fiction.

His nonfiction, too, is notable for its engaging clarity, its constant presentation of political agendas, and its eagerness to convey knowledge; on a more technical though always popular level, he was particularly known for his long-running "Chaos Manor" columns on home computer systems in Byte from June initially as "The User's Column" until the printed magazine ceased in , and thereafter online.

A sense of deep cultural pessimism about our willingness to benefit from our strengths, though alleviated by explicit avowals of Libertarian hopefulness, pervades and — for many readers — humanizes his work. For CoDominium Shared-World anthologies, see works as editor below. Film TV Games. Fortnite Game of Thrones Books. Comics Music. Filed under: New Adventures Books Culture. Linkedin Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. Image: Roland Dobbins.

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