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I started in this racket in the early 70s, and when I was presiden

I started in this racket in the early 70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of. – Jerry Pournelle

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We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it. – Jerry Pournelle

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