Jerry Pournelle

THE HOUSE DIVIDEDIHe remembered posters. He had bought them in a little shop in Kansas City and taped them to his bedroom wall. They had stayed for a year before he tired of them: blown-up photographs of the planet Earth, taken from close orbit and from behind the Moon, by Apollo astronauts.In his...

PrologueThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.Edmund BurkeTHE INVADERSElsewhere in Los Angeles it was late afternoon, but here was only twilight. The three invaders peering out of the orange grove were deep in shadow. The sky blazed behind them and sent...