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[james_davis_nicoll]

The secret history of a forgotten era.

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[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

He's not known for it, due to fannish deference -- I suspect deep dysfunction among the southern California science fiction community; I gather there were drunken fistfights during the 1970s -- but he does it all the time.

The campaign manager and deputy mayor thing is one; the "we beat the Russians from Larry Niven's living room" is another. His account of being kicked off Arpanet is at odds with everyone else's, and there's ample documentary proof. I am pretty sure that Bill Patterson's imbecilic belief that Heinlein helped invent the modern think tank is a Pournelle-ism.

But really, if Pournelle says something is true, and it supports whatever fringe position of the day he's holding, it's probably false.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

I found the link to the mail messages where it all crashed and burned; I assume he'd been asked, repeatedly, not to flaunt his access?

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Yup.