Jerry Pournelle, ingegnere e saggista di formazione, si affermò come un importante autore di fantascienza americano. Le sue narrazioni esplorarono frequentemente robusti temi militari, concentrandosi in particolare sulle forze mercenarie e le loro operazioni, adottando un approccio tecnologico più concreto rispetto ad alcuni contemporanei. Sfruttando il suo background nell'industria aerospaziale, integrò abilmente proiezioni di tattiche militari e probabilità nella sua narrativa speculativa. Pournelle consigliò costantemente agli aspiranti scrittori che il percorso fondamentale verso l'autorialità risiedeva nella scrittura prolifica e nell'atto cruciale di portare a termine le proprie opere.
A new generation is growing up on the island paradise of Camelot, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars fought when their parents and grandparents first arrived from Earth. Setting out for the mainland, this group of young rebels feels ready to fight any grendels that get in their way. On Avalon, however, there are monsters which dwarf the ones their parents fought, and as the group will soon learn, monsters also dwell in the human heart.
Hebt u er ooit over nagedacht hoe het is om dood te zijn? Morbide, zegt u? Maar niet voor Allan Carpentier. Hij is dood en nu heeft hij een eeuwigheid van tijd om over alle pijnlijke details van zijn mislukte leven na te denken. Afgesneden van elk zintuiglijk contact, als een blinde muis in een te kleine kooi, doolt hij rond. Hij kan natuurlijk proberen te ontsnappen, maar dat is niet eenvoudig. In dat geval moet hij de weg gaan van alle verdoemden. En die weg leidt naar beneden, door de verschrikkingen van de zeven cirkels, naar het bevroren hart van de meedogenloze hel... Inferno is een klassieke SF-roman door het vermaarde schrijversduo Larry Niven en Jerry Pournelle. Eerder verschenen van hen: Voetval, Splinter, Heorot en Lucifer.
"The two hundred colonists on board the Geographic have spent a century in cold sleep to arrive here: Avalon, a lush, verdant planet lightyears from Earth. They hope to establish a permanent colony, and Avalon seems the perfect place. And so they set about planting and building. But their very presence has upset the ecology of Avalon. Soon an implacable predator stalks them, picking them off one by one. In order to defeat this alien enemy, they must reevaluate everything they think they know about Avalon, and uncover the planet's dark secrets"-- Provided by publisher