Hard SF

Jeff Wilson · 02 Dec 2012, 23:50 · from 2012-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 17:50:53 -0600
Subject: (urth) Hard SF
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On 11/29/2012 12:41 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote:
> Exactly. And there's a related subgenre of space opera one could call
> "(military) hardware porn," where the science is totally made up but the
> technology is lovingly described. I don't know any names, but I've
> flipped through a few at my local library. OK, there's post- Ringworld
> Jerry Pournelle . . .

Did Pournelle write any books before his friend Niven wrote RINGWORLD?

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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