Author: Jerry Pournelle

Quotes

You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.

You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.

- Jerry Pournelle

Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.

Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.

- Jerry Pournelle

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.

- Jerry Pournelle

And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.

And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.

- Jerry Pournelle

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.

- Jerry Pournelle

Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.

Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.

- Jerry Pournelle

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