Thirty Years, Literally

Some time ago some grognard took to this blog's updates page and criticized our not writing a third Israel Strikes novel to wrap up the saga.

[It's a saga now, is it?-Ed]

We are People of the Book, after all...Anyway we told this tosser to sod off and noted that we've been waiting 30 years for Jerry Pournelle to finish Janisarries and then he died.

Well, well, well...lookie here...Pournelle's estate finally finished up the concluding novel. People, we give you Mamelukes.

Briefly, in 1979 aliens kidnap a bunch of CIA Mercs in Angola and drop them on a Medieval planet so they can grow drugs for them. It's basically Game of Thrones meets a bunch of guys running around Game of Thrones with rifles and machineguns.

We'll have to root around our book boxes and find the original novels. This gives us the excuse we need to purge our old sci fi and fantasy collection. 

No, we're not writing a third Israel Strikes novel.

Pournelle is Baaaaaack!

OMG! OMG!

After thirty(30) thirty(!) years it's finally here!

Nut graph, as the J-school losers say, aliens kidnap CIA mercs and dump them on a medieval planet. The result is fun high-adventure.

Jerry Pournelle died a few years ago, we talked about him here. Do click over and read the Steve Sailer link.

We read him and his partner Larry Niven in high school and college. Lets just say he had a big influence on us. The Janisaries series was among the first real books we ever read. Now we're going to have to dig them out of the basement and re-read them. It's been a long time.