A step farther out
by Jerry Pournelle · first published 1979
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…you can quibble, but basically yes, you can, and he was right on the money on the timing. That was an audacious prediction back then. He influenced me the most by his columns on space development (A Step Farther Out, and a couple of anthologies The Endless Frontier). I don't clearly remember what was in them, but there was a kind of can-do attitude about developing technological civilization in a strategic way that…
on “Jerry Pournelle has died” ↗Also quite a lot about this (and related / similar stuff) in A Step Farther Out, by Jerry Pournelle: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2362018.A_Step_Farther_O...
on “A better way to get into space (2014)” ↗