Janissaries · #2

Clan and Crown

Jerry Pournelle

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For the first few years, Rick Galloway and his band of mercenaries were doing well just to survive. They'd been swept off a hilltop in Africa by a flying saucer, and deposited on an alien world where the other inhabitants were human – but from various and unfriendly periods of history, all collected by flying saucer raids.

Rick has faced facts: This planet is going to be home, permanently. And to create a society safe for themselves and the families they are gradually building, they need to do more than just survive. They must convince the others that a unified, peaceful society is better than a collection of warring tribes. Force would not be Rick's chosen method of persuasion – but on a planet where the other dominate culture is one brought straight from ancient Rome, force may be the only way.

Published
1982
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Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Eugene Pournelle (1933-2017) was an American science fiction writer, essayist, and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. In 2011, he joined journalist Gina Smith, pundit John C. Dvorak, political cartoonist Ted Rall and several other Byte.com staff reporters to launch an independent tech and political news site aNewDomain. Pournelle served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1973 and served aNewDomain Media as its director until his death. He is recognized as the first author to have written a published book contribution using a…