Jerry Pournelle
Last week I followed a link on Instapundit and dropped into Jerry Pournelle’s website/blog. Apparently he’s been blogging nearly longer than anyone. I wish I would have know before this.
Pournelle is one of my all-time favorite authors even though he did crash a space ship into North Dakota once. I looked up his Wikipedia entry and found that I pretty much have every one of his books on my bookshelf, most of them read multiple times. I still return to the old favorites, especially when I’m going through a lot of stress at home and work.
I was greatly saddened to find out that just in the last couple weeks he’s started taking radiation treatments for a growth in his head. My thoughts and prayers go out to him, hoping that he makes a full recovery. Apparently he’s having a hard time speaking right now, but he’s still able to write. He updates his Blog on a daily basis and I’ve added that to my regular read.
Apparently when he got a regular gig at Byte magazine he stopped writing a lot of fiction. (With the exception of Starswarm an the Burning City books). Because of that I wasn’t following him that much. Things at Byte have changed a lot and he’s no longer with them. Apparently he has had more time to write as the sequel to Inferno, cleverly named Inferno II, is being prepared for publication. He also seems to be working on another Jannisarries novel.
I eagerly await the release of both of these books and will continue to hope for the best.
