Comments on: Incident at LASFS (or, I get in a steel cage with Jerry Pournelle) http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/2009/06/19/incident-at-lasfs-or-i-get-in-a-steel-cage-with-jerry-pournelle/ Autumn Rain 2110 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:38:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.27 By: David J. Williams » Blog Archive » Return to LASFS http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/2009/06/19/incident-at-lasfs-or-i-get-in-a-steel-cage-with-jerry-pournelle/comment-page-1/#comment-4231 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:58:25 +0000 http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/?p=1328#comment-4231 […] listed on their website as an “author and controversial speaker“; I can’t imagine why. It should be good fun, though; they are of course the oldest running science fiction club, and […]

]]> By: David J. Williams Reading Tonight in DC (David Louis Edelman) http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/2009/06/19/incident-at-lasfs-or-i-get-in-a-steel-cage-with-jerry-pournelle/comment-page-1/#comment-3997 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:37:32 +0000 http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/?p=1328#comment-3997 […] with ray guns. This is intelligent stuff, heavily researched, detailed and backgrounded. Mr. Williams even caused a little bit of a stir by getting into a science tiff with Jerry Pournelle a little while back, an incident which sounded like great […]

]]> By: Phasor Burn » Blog Archive » Space based power pilot to provide energy to California by 2016 http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/2009/06/19/incident-at-lasfs-or-i-get-in-a-steel-cage-with-jerry-pournelle/comment-page-1/#comment-2746 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:13:52 +0000 http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/?p=1328#comment-2746 […] wait to hear what Jerry Pournelle may have to say about […]

]]> By: fritz freiheit.com blog » Link dump http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/2009/06/19/incident-at-lasfs-or-i-get-in-a-steel-cage-with-jerry-pournelle/comment-page-1/#comment-1893 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:18:31 +0000 http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/?p=1328#comment-1893 […] David J. Williams ? Blog Archive ? Incident at LASFS (or, I get in a steel cage with Jerry Pournelle… […]

]]> By: David J. Williams » Blog Archive » San Diego reading with Kim Stanley Robinson http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/2009/06/19/incident-at-lasfs-or-i-get-in-a-steel-cage-with-jerry-pournelle/comment-page-1/#comment-1809 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:34:02 +0000 http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/?p=1328#comment-1809 […] say, I was a little nervous doing last night’s reading, because if it been anything like the Pournelle Extravaganza, then I’d be saddled with a reputation as an author who Doesn’t Play Nicely with […]

]]> By: David J. Williams » Blog Archive » James Nicoll syndicates Pournelle vs. Williams http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/2009/06/19/incident-at-lasfs-or-i-get-in-a-steel-cage-with-jerry-pournelle/comment-page-1/#comment-1702 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:30:53 +0000 http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/?p=1328#comment-1702 […] resultant conversation on his blog covered many topics, including SDI, but was in sharp contrast to the one on mine in […]

]]> By: Sunday Starlinks http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/2009/06/19/incident-at-lasfs-or-i-get-in-a-steel-cage-with-jerry-pournelle/comment-page-1/#comment-1700 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:50:49 +0000 http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/?p=1328#comment-1700 […] writing hard science fiction is more dangerous than other kinds of fiction: David J. Williams in a cage match with Jerry Pournelle.  Follow up being an open letter to Jerry […]

]]> By: Fiction in many forms: a catch up post « MentatJack http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/2009/06/19/incident-at-lasfs-or-i-get-in-a-steel-cage-with-jerry-pournelle/comment-page-1/#comment-1698 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:13:35 +0000 http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/?p=1328#comment-1698 […] of the list would be hanging out with David J Williams during his LASFS adventure. I was a bit floored by how he was treated. I sort of feel like Dave and I fought through the […]

]]> By: David Williams http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/2009/06/19/incident-at-lasfs-or-i-get-in-a-steel-cage-with-jerry-pournelle/comment-page-1/#comment-1648 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:12:14 +0000 http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/?p=1328#comment-1648 @ Roland: ideologues are as deaf to nuance as they are quick to accuse one of being brainwashed by opposing ideologues. The KGB was asserting that SDI was part of a first-strike strategy. (That’s their theory.) I merely pointed out that it *could* been used as part of such a strategy. (That’s a fact.) Of course I’m not saying that SDI itself was the first-strike weapon. Rather, the presence of a partial missile shield could have been used to advantage a first-strike. Note at no point in this conversation have I disagreed with Jerry about the actual intent of the U.S. vis-a-vis SDI. If you think I have, you’re not paying attention.

@ Narciso. .. like Roland, you seem to be reading a great deal into my position. Nothing new there, of course.

@ Jerry: I take no issue with your right to say any of what you’ve said, and I fully agree that I was the first to raise these questions, at the invitation of LASFS. Re your hearing: I’ll be honest in saying that I don’t recall a huge amount of what was said immediately after my presentation, beyond giving you a copy of my book, and telling various LASFS members that they shouldn’t be apologizing. That being said, I didn’t put the volume issue in my original post, and gladly retract my comment in the thread regarding that. You certainly interrupted me, but what’s that between friends. : )

ALL: partially because I don’t like being called a KGB puppet, I’m shutting down comments on this thread and rebooting it with this morning’s blog post. I’ll be over there sipping my coffee.

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]]> By: David J. Williams » Blog Archive » An Open Letter to Jerry Pournelle http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/2009/06/19/incident-at-lasfs-or-i-get-in-a-steel-cage-with-jerry-pournelle/comment-page-1/#comment-1647 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:06:40 +0000 http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/?p=1328#comment-1647 […] « Incident at LASFS (or, I get in a steel cage with Jerry Pournelle) […]

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