Jerry Pournelle: 16 books

Return to the "vivid and unusual" (Kirkus Reviews) world of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's The Burning City, where the fire god has retreated into myth, leaving the residents of Tep's Town unprotected for the first time in their history. Unfortunately, a fiery fate isn't the only danger...

Die ferne Zukunft. Die Menschheit hat den Sprung zu den Sternen gewagt und ein Imperium errichtet. Doch nie trafen sie auf außerirdisches Leben. Dies ändert sich, als die Crew um Captain Blaine einem sonderbaren Flugobjekt zu Hilfe eilt. Die Mission gelingt, doch das seltsame Wesen im Inneren der...

When men discovered that the Planet of the Apes was their own Earth, it was only the beginning of the most incredible adventure of all time… BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES By Michael Avallone Thousands of years from now, in the buried ruins of what was once New York City, dark religious ceremonies...

Three best-selling Jerry Pournelle masterpieces in one volume for the first time: Janissaries and Tran. A modern soldier is transported by aliens to a world filled with warriors through the ages including medieval knights, Roman soldiers. His task: survival.JanissariesSome days it just didn't pay to...

IT ALL HAPPENED SO FASTOne minute the two space Hab astronauts were scoop-diving the atmosphere, the next they'd been shot down over the North Dakota Glacier and were the object of a massive manhunt by the United States government.That government, dedicated to saving the environment from the evils of...

Sooner or later, all civilizations age and decline, grow senile and die—either by conquest from without, or from internal rot. The final days of Western Civilization are signaled by the joining of the USA and the USSR into a ruthless and imperial state that spans first the Earth and then the Solar...

Das Ende der Zivilisation. Der Beginn einer neuen Zeit. Das öffentliche Interesse ist groß, als Amateurastronomen einen bis dahin unbekannten Kometen entdecken. Doch schon bald steht fest, dass sich das Objekt auf Kollisionskurs mit der Erde befindet. Als das Unvorstellbare geschieht und der Komet...

Eine verschollene Raumkapsel der NASA kehrt überraschend zur Erde zurück. Doch die US-Astronauten, die mit ihr starteten, befinden sich nicht mehr an Bord des Flugkörpers: Angehörige einer anderen Spezies haben ihre Plätze eingenommen: Cornelius, dessen Gefährtin Zira und Dr. Milo. Die...

“Rare Storytelling…demands to be read at one sitting.” – Chicago Sun-Times “Nobody does it better than Niven and Pournelle.” —Tom Clancy “Exciting, swift and suspenseful.” – Theodore Sturgeon In a dystopian future, where pollution and violence overrun Los Angeles...

After being thrown out the window of his luxury apartment, science fiction writer Allen Carpentier wakes to find himself at the gates of hell. Feeling he's landed in a great opportunity for a book, he attempts to follow Dante's road map. Determined to meet Satan himself, Carpentier treks through the...

Allan Carpenter escaped from hell once but remained haunted by what he saw and endured. He has now returned, on a mission to liberate those souls unfairly tortured and confined. Partnering with the legendary poet and suicide, Sylvia Plath, Carpenter is a modern-day Christ who intends...

Set in the world of Larry Niven's popular The Magic Goes Away, The Burning City transports readers to an enchanted ancient city bearing a provocative resemblance to our own modern society. Here Yagen-Atep, the volatile and voracious god of fire, alternately protects and destroys the city's denizens....

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE A Kzin's instinctively combative responses make for poor diplomatic relations between species. But now that their "first you scream and then you leap" approach to interstellar relations have led to three straight losses to the hairless hominidae of Sol III, there...

THE HELOT WAR—PART IITogether the new Royal Spartan Army and its instructors, the 5th Battalion of Falkenberg's Mercenary Legion, have defeated the initial assault of Grand Senator Bronson's terrorist hordes and their techno-ninja allies. But Bronson's hatred of Sparta and the Legion was as strong...