Clan and Crown, Jerry Pournelle
Clan and Crown, Jerry Pournelle
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Clan and Crown

Author: Jerry Pournelle, Roland Green

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Unabridged: 11 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2014

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

For the first few years, Rick Galloway and his band of mercenaries were doing well just to survive. They'd been swept off a hilltop in Africa by a flying saucer and deposited on an alien world where the other inhabitants were human—but from various and unfriendly periods of history, all collected by flying saucer raids.Rick has faced facts: this place is going to be home, permanently. To create a safe society for themselves and the families they are gradually building, they need to do more than just survive; they must convince the others that a unified, peaceful society is better than a collection of warring tribes. Force would not be Rick's chosen method of persuasion, but on a planet where the other dominant culture is one brought straight from ancient Rome, force may be the only way.

About Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Pournelle (1933–2017) was an American science fiction writer, essayist, and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte. He wrote the popular Janissaries and CoDominium series and was the coauthor of several bestselling science fiction novels, including Lucifer’s Hammer, The Mote in God’s Eye, and the New York Times bestseller Footfall. He had advanced degrees in engineering, political science, statistics, and psychology and, in addition to his career as a fiction writer, had for many years written columns on both politics and technology.

About Roland Green

Roland J. Green is the author of the Starcruiser Shenandoah and Wandor series and numerous Conan novels, as well as the coauthor, with Jerry Pournelle, of the Janissaries series.

About Keith Szarabajka

Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit. Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Shorts for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbins’s Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and has won several Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glen on November 15, 2017

Really not a whole lot going on in this second book of the series. Rick Galloway tries to consolidate his power grow his crop while improving the standard of living for the primitives. Meanwhile, the weather is changing, and barbarians from the south are being driven into the civilized areas. Add to......more

Goodreads review by Fantasy Literature on October 21, 2014

In this second installment of Jerry Pournelle’s JANISSARIES series, the modern American military unit that was abducted by aliens and deposited on the planet Tran to oversee the harvest of psychedelic drugs for alien drug dealers is still trying to get the planet under control so they can focus on t......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on November 28, 2020

Janissaries: Clan and Crown is the second installment in Jerry Pournelle’s long-running Janissaries series. Jerry was solo author on the first one, but this volume was co-authored with Roland Green, who somehow didn’t rate a mention on the cover in 1982. Jerry made sure he was brought up in the afte......more

Goodreads review by Kim on August 29, 2020

This is the second in the trilogy begun by Janissaries. I truly thought it would not be as good as the first since the mystery was solved and all questions answered. I expected mostly swords and battles à la a fantasy epic. Some of that was there, but there was also a great deal more depth than I pr......more

Quotes

“Jerry Pournelle is one of science fiction’s great storytellers.” Poul Anderson, praise for the author

“A man who knows not just the military and the future but the great art of storytelling.” Gordon R. Dickson, member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, praise for the author

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