{"id":134621,"date":"2017-09-08T23:39:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T05:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134621"},"modified":"2017-09-09T16:28:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T22:28:18","slug":"rip-jerry-pournelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/08\/rip-jerry-pournelle.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Jerry Pournelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to hear today of <a href=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2017\/09\/08\/rip-jerry-pournelle\/\">the death of longtime hard SF author Jerry Pournelle<\/a>. While he was distinctly to the right of me politically, his popular technology writing was often fascinating, and a lot of his fiction (in particular his collaborations with Larry Niven, such as <i>The Mote in God&#8217;s Eye<\/i> and <i>Inferno)<\/i> were excellent reads that I still circle back to.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, sir, for many, many hours of reading entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6463648928955870529\/6463648930331913922?authkey=CPOjk-C3ssv-FQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-0vBaeuFBy68\/WbN-dM1EbsI\/AAAAAAAEgGo\/T4iMKcgzfSQO_CEodDXAnzxuKCPcmZGnQCL0BGAs\/jerryat600widthwithmacbookair%255B1%255D.png?imgmax=660\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/D2TRdgFg1es\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to hear today of the death of longtime hard SF author Jerry Pournelle. While he was distinctly to the right of me politically, his popular technology writing was often fascinating, and a lot of his fiction (in particular his collaborations with Larry Niven, such as The Mote in God&#8217;s Eye and Inferno) were excellent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/08\/rip-jerry-pournelle.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP, Jerry Pournelle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,36,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-books","category-media-performers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jerryat600widthwithmacbookair5B15D.pngimgmax=660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1571,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/08\/friendly_fire.html","url_meta":{"origin":134621,"position":0},"title":"Friendly Fire","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 8-Dec-01 5:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Jerry Pournelle has an interesting take on the friendly fire deaths earlier this week. 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