Jerry Pournelle

Año 3017 d. C. Aunque el Segundo Imperio del Hombre abarca cientos de sistemas solares, todavía no se ha contactado con otros seres inteligentes. El hallazgo de una insólita nave espacial con el cuerpo exánime de un alienígena en el interior conducirá a los humanos hasta una lejana estrella inmersa en una densa nube de polvo estelar: la Paja.

La mejor novela sobre el fin del mundo aparecida desde hace muchos años… una novela única… tremendamente apasionante" Cleveland Plain Dealer "Tome unos cuantos terremotos, urbanizaciones inundadas, e

Rare Storytellingdemands to be read at one sitting. Chicago Sun-TimesNobody does it better than Niven and Pournelle. Tom ClancyExciting, swift and suspenseful. Theodore SturgeonIn a dystopian future, where pollution and violence overrun Los Angeles streets, a Utopia flourishes. Todos Santos is thousand-foot-high arcology; a single-structured city that rises above the festering skyscrapers to offer its privileged residents the perfect blend of technology and security in exchange for their oath of allegiance and vigilance.But is this orderly city elevating humanity, or shackling it? There are those who feel the constant video surveillance oppressive, rather than inclusive, or that the city is monopolizing hard-earned resources, and taking money away from the poorer Angelinos.Connected through neural implants to MILLIE the AI that runs all of Todos Santos systems Art Bonner and Barbara Churchwood work with a team of dedicated staff to protect the city against the FROMATEs ("Friends of Man and the Earth), who are a group of anti-technology zealots dedicated to destroying everything they have built. When three youths break into the city, to see if they can exploit its weaknesses, the repercussions of their actions threaten to bring one of humanities most ambitious projects to its knees....

Return to the "vivid and unusual" (Kirkus Reviews) world of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelles The Burning City, where the fire god has retreated into myth, leaving the residents of Teps Town unprotected for the first time in their history. Unfortunately, a fiery fate isnt the only danger the town is facing. From out of the desert come monsters -- great birds with blades instead of wings, driven by some unknown force. Although they can be killed, the threat these terror birds pose is worse than death. Danger on the roads means no trade. No trade means that Teps Town will be no more. Sent by the Lords of Lordshills to discover the source of the terror birds, Lord Sandry and his beloved, Burning Tower, must travel into a world where magic is still strong -- and where someone or something waits to destroy them! Filled with the sweeping adventure, memorable characters, and imaginative world-building that have defined the novels of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Burning Tower is another triumph.

Set in the world of Larry Nivens popular The Magic Goes Away, The Burning City transports readers to an enchanted ancient city bearing a provocative resemblance to our own modern society. Here Yagen-Atep, the volatile and voracious god of fire, alternately protects and destroys the citys denizens. In Teps Town, nothing can burn indoors and no fire can start -- except when the Burning comes upon the city. Then the people, possessed by Yagen-Atep, set their own town ablaze in a riotous orgy of destruction that often comes without warning.Whandall Placehold has lived with the Burning all his life. Fighting his way to adulthood in the mean-but-magical streets of the citys most blighted neighborhoods, Whandall dreams of escaping the gods wrath to find a new and better life. But his best hope for freedom may lie with Morth of Atlantis, the enigmatic sorcerer who killed his father!

Año 3017 d. C. Aunque el Segundo Imperio del Hombre abarca cientos de sistemas solares, todavía no se ha contactado con otros seres inteligentes. El hallazgo de una insólita nave espacial con el cuerpo exanime de un alienigena en el interior conducira a los humanos hasta una lejana estrella inmersa en una densa nube de polvo estelar: la Paja. Una expedicion descubrira alli una antiquisima civilizacion, amable y hospitalaria, pero que rehuye tratar de ciertos aspectos de su sociedad. Y es que bajo las sonrisas tranquilizadoras los pajeños ocultan un secreto planetario de impacto universal y devastador.Compuesta a cuatro manos en perfecta sintonia, esta novela conjuga accion, drama, suspense, tecnologia y alienigenas verosimiles, politica y violencia. Su extraordinario poder de entretenimiento y sorpresa la ha convertido en una autentica obra de culto, cuya reedicion, ahora revisada, ha sido largamente esperada en España.

Birth Of Fire is the story of Garrett Pittston, wrongly convicted of murder. Pittston faces a choice: life in prison, or near-slavery on Mars. Under the appalling conditions imposed by those who run the mines from Earth, Pittston and his fellow workers start a revolution to wrest their freedom from the penal colony. Display advertising in science fiction publications. Previously published by Pocket Books.

Unos pequeños puntos procedentes de Saturno se dirigen a la Tierra. Los científicos se ponen en guardia, pero fracasan en todos los intentos de establecer contacto con ellos... Los alienígenas han llegado para quedarse. Armados con una tecnologia desconocida, estos seres astutos y mortiferos se hacen con el control del planeta en cuestion de pocos dias. Nada ni nadie parece capaz de detenerles. Ante la desesperacion, los humanos deciden atacar la nave nodriza de los invasores, en una maniobra suicida de consecuencias imprevisibles. Una lucha desesperada por la supervivencia de la humanidad magistralmente orquestada por Larry Niven y Jerry Pournelle, dos de los grandes del genero, en una de sus colaboraciones mas importantes. Un clasico inedito que, al igual que el resto de sus obras, ha cosechado un gran exito en el extranjero tanto de critica como de ventas.