“So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.”
Author details
Related authors
Other Jerry Pournelle Quotes
There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years.
Jerry Pournelle 
66% of people like this quote
Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.
Jerry Pournelle
57% of people like this quote
I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.
Jerry Pournelle
57% of people like this quote