I’ve read some of Pournelle’s collaborations with Larry Niven. Based on those, I’d say he leans right...
Funny you mention Heinlein’s libertarian leanings. My wife is a modern “liberal” who owns almost everything he ever wrote.
“I’ve read some of Pournelle’s collaborations with Larry Niven. Based on those, I’d say he leans right...”
There was a whole conservative group, Pournelle, Niven, Drake and others, and the reaction to that was a group of liberal-leaning authors (like David Brin) who wrote more stories about people and society than science stuff. Cyberpunk grew out of that, an upwelling of deep cynicism.
It’s hard to find “hard science” fiction any more. I just read This Is Not A Game, sold as Sci fi, but it really was a drama set around alternate reality games and social networking. A good book, but clearly not Neutron Star (Niven) or The Kiln People (Brin).
Do you 'share water' with her, brother ?
If you compare them to Pournelle's individual works, you will realize that Niven is the "lefty" of that duo.
I’ve read some of Pournelle’s collaborations with Larry Niven. Based on those, I’d say he leans right...Dr. Pournelle has described himself as "somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan."
He (like Heinlein) seemed to start out quite far to the left, and moved to the right as he matured.
FYI, Pournelle was Barry Goldwater's California campaign manager in 1964.
Dr. Pournelle is a right/libertarian. Niven less so.
RAH ran for Congress as a hard core socialist. He believed in nudism, promoted polyamory and HATED religion. He voted Democrat for many years. He hung around with Aleister Crowley and similar odd pagan types.