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As part of a redesign in June 1984, the magazine renamed the popular column to "Computing at Chaos Manor", and the accompanying letter column became "Chaos Manor Mail". [ 48 ] Pournelle preferred 5 1/4-inch floppy disks to 8-inch disks as late as 1982, [ 54 ] and still used "Zeke" to write as late as 1987, but admitted that he would soon have ...
A small force of mostly American troops, mercenaries under a secret CIA contract in Africa during the Cold War about to be annihilated by a Cuban military force, is "rescued" by the Shalnuksis, extraterrestrial beings part of an interstellar Confederation who offer them their lives in exchange for service on a primitive planet raising surinomaz ("madweed"), a plant used to produce a ...
One such site was science fiction author Jerry Pournelle's weblog The View From Chaos Manor [27] derived from a long-standing column in Byte, describing computers from a power user's point of view. After the closure of Byte magazine, Pournelle's column continued to be published in the Turkish editions of PC World , which was soon renamed as PC ...
Janissaries is a science fiction novel by American author Jerry Pournelle.Originally published in 1979, and illustrated by comic artist Luis Bermejo, it is the first book of Pournelle's Janissaries series.
Frank Gasperik (November 5, 1942 – May 3, 2007) was an author, writer, songwriter and filk singer.. Frank appeared as a character in several science fiction novels including Lucifer's Hammer (as Mark Czescu), Footfall (as Harry Reddington aka Hairy Red) [1] and Fallen Angels, all by the writing team of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
The critical council focus was on affordable access to space during the period of the late 1980’s to the late 1990’s. Meetings were held at Chaos Manor, the “Making Orbit 93” conference in Berkeley, and in Las Cruces, NM during DC-X test flight events.
Janissaries: Clan and Crown is a science fiction novel by American writers Jerry Pournelle and Roland J. Green, the second book of Pournelle's Janissaries series (the first was titled simply Janissaries).
"Remedial Chaos Theory" is the fourth episode of the third season of the American television series Community. The episode was written by Chris McKenna and directed by Jeff Melman. It originally aired on October 13, 2011 on NBC. It follows a community college study group at a housewarming party for members Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed