Oath of Fealty by Larry Niven (English) Paperback Book

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Prometheus Award Hall of Fame finalist and one of the 100 best science fiction novels from 1949-1984 as selected by critic David Pringle.This classic of libertarian science fiction explores how the citizens of a near-future Los Angeles wrestle with poverty, privacy, and technology when faced with a choice between corporate feudalism and government dysfunction.In a dystopian future, where pollution, overpopulation, and violence overrun Los Angeles streets, a Utopia flourishes. Todos Santos is thousand-foot-high arcology, a self-contained single-structured city that rises above the festering skyscrapers to offer its privileged residents the perfect blend of technology and security in exchange for their oath of allegiance and vigilance.But is this orderly city elevating humanity, or shackling it? There are those who feel the constant video surveillance oppressive, rather than inclusive, or that the city is monopolizing hard-earned resources, and taking money away from the poorer Angelinos.Connected through neural implants to MILLIE - the AI that runs all of Todos Santos' systems - Art Bonner and Barbara Churchwood work with a team of dedicated staff to protect the city against the FROMATEs ("Friends of Man and the Earth"), who are a group of anti-technology zealots dedicated to destroying everything they have built. When three youths break into the city, to see if they can exploit its weaknesses, the repercussions of their actions threaten to bring one of humanities most ambitious projects to its knees...Published in 1981, Oath of Fealty is one of several works by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, including The Mote in God's Eye (1974) and Lucifer's Hammer (1977).

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Larry Niven is an American science fiction writer. His best-known works are Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards, and, with Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye (1974) and Lucifer's Hammer (1977). The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource.He is a great-grandson of Edward L. Doheny, an oil tycoon who drilled the first successful well in the Los Angeles City Oil Field in 1892 and was subsequently implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal. He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas in 1962. He also completed a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. On September 6, 1969, he married Marilyn Wisowaty, a science fiction and Regency literature fan.Niven has written scripts for three science fiction television series: the original Land of the Lost series; Star Trek: The Animated Series, for which he adapted his early story The Soft Weapon, and The Outer Limits, for which he adapted his story Inconstant Moon into an episode of the same name.He has also written for the DC Comics character Green Lantern, including in his stories hard science fiction concepts such as universal entropy and the redshift effect.Jerry Pournelle was an American polymath: scientist in thearea of operations research and human factors research, science fiction writer,essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. In the 1960s and early1970s, he worked in the aerospace industry, but eventually focused on hiswriting career. In an obituary in Gizmodo, he is described as "a tirelessambassador for the future."His hard science fiction writing received multiple awards.In addition to his solo writing, he wrote several novels with collaboratorsincluding Larry Niven. Pournelle served a term as President of the ScienceFiction and Fantasy Writers of America.Pournelle's journalism focused primarily on the computerindustry, astronomy, and space exploration. From the 1970s until the early1990s, he contributed to the computer magazine Byte, writing from the viewpointof an intelligent user, with the oft-cited credo, "We do this stuff so youwon't have to." He created one of the first blogs, entitled "ChaosManor", which included commentary about politics, computer technology,space technology, and science fiction.He held paleoconservative political views, which weresometimes expressed in his fiction. He was one of the founders of the Citizens'Advisory Council on National Space Policy, which developed some of the ReaganAdministration's space initiatives, including the earliest versions of whatwould become the Strategic Defense Initiative.

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"Exciting, swift and suspenseful." - Theodore Sturgeon"Nobody does it better than Niven and Pournelle." --Tom Clancy"Rare Storytelling...demands to be read at one sitting." - Chicago Sun-Times

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"Rare Storytelling...demands to be read at one sitting." - Chicago Sun-Times

Details ISBN1647100488 Author Jerry Pournelle Pages 284 Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1647100488 ISBN-13 9781647100483 Format Paperback Publication Date 2022-04-26 Publisher CAEZIK SF & Fantasy Imprint CAEZIK SF & Fantasy DEWEY FIC Audience General We've got this

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