Imperial Star series by Jerry Pournelle (Books 1-3)
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Overview: Dr Jerry Eugene Pournelle is an American science fiction writer, engineer, essayist, and journalist, who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte, and has since 1998 been maintaining his own website and blog.
From the beginning, Pournelle’s work has centred around strong military themes. Several books describe the fictional mercenary infantry force known as Falkenberg’s Legion. There are strong parallels between these stories and the Childe Cycle mercenary stories by Gordon R. Dickson, as well as Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, although Pournelle’s work takes far fewer technological leaps than either of these. Pournelle served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1973.
As of early 2008, Pournelle has been battling a brain tumor, which appears to be responding favorably to radiation treatment.
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy
1. The Stars at War
Arthur Clarke said it first: If mankind is to survive, then for all but a very brief part of our history the word "ship" will mean "space ship." We will spread through space. We will build a colony on the moon: if we had a government of courage and imagination we would have that in time to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s voyages of discovery. As it is, it will take a bit longer; but we will go back to the Moon. We will settle other moons, and asteroids, and the planets; and we will go to the stars. Where mankind goes, government goes.
It is no idle thing, then, to think about what forms of government we will take to the stars. We in this enlightened age think we know; but do we? We are, after all, no smarter than our ancestors. We know more, but that’s quite a different thing – and we have forgotten much that we had best relearn before we pay dearly for what they knew and we don’t.
2. Republic and Empire
Humans must have govenment. If they do not have it, they will create it. But what kind? In Volume I of the Imperial Stars series best-selling author Jerry Pournelle set out to find the answer. His reluctant conclusion: that throughout history, no matter in what form they began, all governments become empires — or are conquered by them. From Babylon, to Persia, to Rome, to the U.S.S.R.: no matter how hight the founding ideals, the end is ever tyranny.
Or is there possibly one form of govenment that can withstand the curse of power and yet be strong enough to try conclusions with Imperial legions…?
3. The Crash of Empire
Empires do not grow old gracefully. As the edifice of ancient government succumbs to entropy, as civil war reigns, the result is indeed "interesting times," the times of interstellar Huns locked in mortal combat with Imperial storm troopers. Original.
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