7 August: Jerry Pournelle Quotes

Jerry Pournelle, the US sci-fi author, was born on August 7 1933. Here are some words of wisdom from him.

1. In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.
2. To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
3. The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it.
4. The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
5. Bureaucracies are progressive, meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.
6. The definition of a Dark Age is that we no longer remember what we once could do.
7. Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.
8. What man has done, man can aspire to do.
9. That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error.
10. Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.

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Over the Rainbow

'We're not in Trinity anymore,' says Leonard Marx, quoting a line from an old Innovian  movie. The moon is different; the planes flying overhead are different. Nobody has any idea where they are or if it's possible to get home. 

In this strange new world, people from the highly technical Innovia and the less advanced Classica must co-operate in order to survive. In addition, travel through the inter-dimensional wormhole has given some people unusual and unexpected powers.

Innovia mourns the loss of its superhero, Power Blaster, last seen carrying a nuclear bomb to the upper atmosphere away from the inhabited Bird Island. They don't believe he could possibly have survived.  Power Blaster has survived, but is close to death and stranded in the new dimension. He is nursed back to health by a Classican woman, Elena. She has no idea who he is, only that she is falling in love with the handsome stranger.  

Shanna sets out to discover what happened to Nathan Tate, who didn't return from his hiking holiday, not knowing her life is about to be turned inside out and upside down. 

Meanwhile, Desi Troyes, the man responsible for the catastrophe, is at large on the new world, plotting how he can transfer his plans for world domination to the planet he now finds himself on - Earth. 

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