The Endless Frontier Vol 1 Author:Jerry Pournelle (Editor) Earth is not room enough. There's only one earth, and with billions-piled-upon-billions of us, there just isn't enough to go around. So, 'Use Less', 'Think Small', and above all, 'Be Appropriate'. Right? WRONG! There are also eight other planets, thirty-six moons, a millio... more »n asteroids, a billion comets, an eternal energy source-, and an infinite sea of space. It's raining soup Out There.
Fact and fiction about man's ultimate destiny: Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, Joe Haldeman, Katherine MacLean, Charles Sheffield, Brian O'Leary and many more! Join bestselling author Jerry Pournelle and his colleagues in an exploration through fact and fiction of THE ENDLESS FRONTIER.
Contents:
Preface (The Endless Frontier) (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle [as by J. E. Pournelle, Ph.D.]: Endless Frontier (The Endless Frontier) (1979) • essay by Jerry Pournelle [as by J. E. Pournelle, Ph.D.]
Editor's Introduction to: Spirals [Editor's Introduction: (The Endless Frontier)] • essay by Jerry Pournelle; Spirals (1979) / novella by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle; Editor's Afterword to: Spirals • essay by Jerry Pournelle
Editor's Introduction to: Coming of Age in Henson's Tube [Editor's Introduction: (The Endless Frontier)] • essay by Jerry Pournelle; Coming of Age in Henson's Tube (1977) / short story by William John Watkins [as by William Jon Watkins]
Editor's Introduction to: Tricentennial [Editor's Introduction: (The Endless Frontier)] • essay by Jerry Pournelle: Tricentennial (1976) / short story by Joe Haldeman
Editor's Introduction to: No Home-Like Place [Editor's Introduction: (The Endless Frontier)] • essay by Jerry Pournelle: No Home-Like Place / short story by Dian Girard
Editor's Introduction to: Bind Your Sons to Exile [Editor's Introduction: (The Endless Frontier)] • essay by Jerry Pournelle: Bind Your Sons to Exile (1976) / novelette by Jerry Pournelle
Editor's Introduction to: To Catch a Falling Star [Editor's Introduction: (The Endless Frontier)] • essay by Jerry Pournelle: To Catch a Falling Star (1979) • essay by Brian O'Leary
Editor's Introduction to: To Bring in the Steel [Editor's Introduction: (The Endless Frontier)] • essay by Jerry Pournelle: To Bring in the Steel (1978) / novelette by Donald Kingsbury
Editor's Introduction to: The L-5 Society [Editor's Introduction: (The Endless Frontier)] • essay by Jerry Pournelle: The L-5 Society (1979) • essay by Robert A. Heinlein
Editor's Introduction to: House [Editor's Introduction: (The Endless Frontier)] • essay by Jerry Pournelle: House (1979) • poem by Peter Dillingham
Editor's Introduction to: Home on Lagrange [Editor's Introduction: (The Endless Frontier)] • essay by Jerry Pournelle: Home on Lagrange (1978) • poem by Barry Gehm, Bill Higgins
Editor's Introduction to: The Gambling Hell and the Sinful Girl [Editor's Introduction: (The Endless Frontier)] • essay by Jerry Pournelle; The Gambling Hell and the Sinful Girl (1975) / short story by Katherine MacLean
Editor's Introduction to: Dark Sanctuary [Editor's Introduction: (The Endless Frontier)] • essay by Jerry Pournelle: Dark Sanctuary (1979) / short story by Gregory Benford
Editor's Introduction to: Cable Cars in the Sky [Editor's Introduction: (The Endless Frontier)] • essay by Jerry Pournelle: Cable Cars in the Sky (1978) • essay by Hans Moravec [as by Hans Mouravec]: Editor's Afterword to: Cable Cars in the Sky • essay by Jerry Pournelle
Editor's Introduction to: Transition Team [Editor's Introduction: (The Endless Frontier)] • essay by Jerry Pournelle: Transition Team (1978) / novelette by Charles Sheffield
Editor's Introduction to: Bigger Than Worlds [Editor's Introduction: (The Endless Frontier)] • essay by Jerry Pournelle: Bigger Than Worlds [Science Fact (Analog)] (1974) • essay by Larry Niven.