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Jerry Eugene Pournelle was an American science fiction writer, essayist, and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. In 2011, he joined journalist Gina Smith, pundit John C. Dvorak, political cartoonist Ted Rall and several other Byte.com staff reporters to launch an independent tech and political news site aNewDomain.

Pournelle served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1973 and served aNewDomain Media as its director until his death. He is recognized as the first author to have written a published book contribution using a word processor on a personal computer, in 1977.

✵ 7. August 1933 – 8. September 2017
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“Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.”

Reply to reader email http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives2/archives2mail/mail141.html#competent2 in Chaos Manor Mail 141, February 19-25, 2001
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“I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.”

Commonly seen with the attribution "Jerry Pournelle, an absurd notion, apparently about the BIX BBS"
Clarified in a reply to reader email http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives2/archives2view/view402.html#Saturday in Chaos Manor View 402, February 20-26, 2006
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