Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Exiles To Glory by Jerry Pournelle Exiles to Glory. Exiles to Glory is a short by Jerry Pournelle , published in 1978. It is a sequel to the stories in the collection High Justice . As with those stories, it weaves the story of pioneering individuals in space with considerations of the technical and financial challenges facing them. Despite being written and published after the landmark novel " The Mote in God's Eye ", which Pournelle co-authored with , the tone, style and themes of this novel are akin to a juvenile novel of the sort written by Robert A. Heinlein in the 1950s. Pournelle returns to his favorite themes of breakdown of the rule of law, the politics of entitlement and disdain for anti-technology activists. This novel and the collection " High Justice " are thought by some to be part of the CoDominium series. However there is no direct evidence for this in any of the stories, although there is nothing contradictory either. This novel's dedication page reads "For Dan Alderson, the sane genius". Alderson, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , conceived the Alderson drive and Langston field technologies used in the CoDominium stories. Plot summary. An intelligent young misfit, Kevin Senecal, leaves Earth to escape various troubles, including a teen gang vendetta which the authorities will not act to stop, and bureaucratic interference in his studies for an engineering degree, in a culture where environmentalists and zero-growth advocates hold sway. He enlists with the Hansen Corporation, a huge conglomerate which has re-located to the Moon, and is now involved in asteroid mining . He is to go to the asteroid . The journey involves laser launch from Earth to orbit, and a long voyage on a ship using the NERVA nuclear rocket technology. During the journey, all the passengers have to be involved in maintaining the shipboard environment, which includes algae to generate from photosynthesis . Kevin falls in love with a mystery woman called Ellen MacMillan. Between them they deal with the consequences of sabotage of the ship by persons unknown, and find a way to effect the rendezvous at Ceres after the ship's computer is sabotaged. They use the expertise of Jacob Norsedal, a prototypical computer hacker who is also a top-notch mathematician and physicist. At Ceres Ellen reveals herself to be an agent for Hansen investigating the mining work, which is plagued with irregularities. In particular, a new element called "Arthurium" is being mined on Ceres. This is a stable transuranic element of the kind predicted during the 1970s based on the theory of an Island of stability for elements of atomic number 114, 120 and 126. Being super-heavy, these elements sink into the cores of planets and are not accessible, but may be found in asteroids. In the story, the arthurium is a possible catalyst for hydrogen fusion and is vital to both the economy of Earth and the future of spaceflight. Rival corporations and mineral interests on Earth want to steal the arthurium or stop its production. Anti-technology politicians would like to shut down all space industry and dedicate the money to the Welfare State. Ellen is actually Glenda Hansen-Mackenzie, daughter of Aeneas Mackenzie and Laurie Jo Hansen, owner of the Hansen Corporation. She can foil the plots if she can access the Ceres computer system. However, she, Kevin and Jacob are marooned on one of Ceres' small satellites by the enemy agents. They improvise a steam-jet rocket which lets them land back on Ceres and bring an end to the intrigue. The idea of using expanding steam as a rocket was first explored in a short story Marooned off Vesta , by Isaac Asimov . Uses of the name Glenda. The name Glenda appears in three places in the CoDominium series. Apart from this character (in both this novel and High Justice), it appears in The Prince as the name of the rebel military leader (and consort of Colonel John Christian Falkenberg III) on New Washington. It is also the given name of the daughter of Rod and Sally Blaine in The Gripping Hand . Wikimedia Foundation . 2010 . Look at other dictionaries: List of Ace single volumes — Ace Books began publishing genre fiction in 1952. Initially these were mostly in the attractive dos à dos format, but they also published a few single volumes, in the early years, and that number grew until the doubles stopped appearing in about… … Wikipedia. List of Ace titles in numeric series — In January 1969, Ace Books switched from a letter series code for its books to a numeric series. The number does not indicate sequence of publication, unlike the number in the letter series codes; instead it identifies the alphabetic position of… … Wikipedia. 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Exiles to Glory. Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. My reactions to reading this novel in 1993. Some spoilers follow. This is the last installment in what The Science Fiction Encyclopedia calls the Laurie Jo Hansen sequence. I enjoyed it, particularly the climax where the hero/engineer Kevin Senecal builds a steam powered rocket (an idea which also shows up in the conclusion of Pournelle’s King David’s Spaceship) to escape captivity on an asteroid. The scientific and enginnering nuts-and-bolts details were well worked out and enjoyable. The book’s pessimism about the future of the world (as seen from 1977) as a descent into welfare statism with ever increasing welfare costs, ever more reluctance to invest in long term engineering and scientific ventures, and eve rmore environmental degradation (latter Pournelle writings, both fact and fiction, show his pessimism lessening on this point) is certainly a product of its time though the state of American society (petty bureaucrats overseeing welfare kingdoms, coddling of criminals, a propensity to see human society as something that can be rationally ordered using tenets from the “science” of psychology) is not to far removed from current America. There were some problems with the novel. Wiley Ralston, Senecal’s old friend, was obviously involved in the sabotage of the Wayfarer ever since the spaceport scene where he warns Senecal to take another capsule. Also, the scene where Senecal and Glenda Hansen-MacKenzie are interrupted by clever villain (who ultimately succeeds in getting away and paying his gambling debts) Henri Stoire was pretty hackneyed. (Though thematically in keeping with Senecal being humilated and set on by street gangs and petty, power mad college counselor.). I liked the secret, rule- breaking fellowship of Futurians (hardly a coincidence that there was an sf club by that name) and the bomb driven asteroid. ( ) In some ways this book has the feel of a juvenile science fiction mystery. It's a stand alone, but follows on with some events and characters explored in Pournelles 'High Justice' collection. This was a quick read, and a pleasant break from more dense science fiction. ( ) James Nicoll Reviews. Jerry Pournelle’s 1978 Exiles to Glory is a young-adult SF novel. It is set in the same universe as the Laurie Jo Hansen stories (after ​ “ Consort” but well before ​ “ Tinker”). Although born a welfare parasite, Kevin Senecal has resisted the call of drugs and welfare-state-subsidized indolence. His engineering degree is within grasp. With degree in hand, he can stride into the life of desperation that is every decent, clean American’s birthright. That is, if he can convince the Umbridge-like bureaucrats who rule the university to let him graduate. His academic status becomes… academic when Kevin is ambushed by filthy welfare barbarians determined to burn him alive. Kevin escapes with his life, badly injuring one gang member and killing another in the process. Now the gang is determined to kill Kevin. They do kill both of his cats. A cop warns Kevin off; it’s no use to appeal to the police. Kevin would only be charged and convicted of assaulting and killing minors. Too white and hard-working to expect a fair trial, Kevin takes the only other option open to him: he heads into space. What sort of company would hire an engineering student without a degree? A desperate one. Global economies are on the verge of collapse due to resource depletion, overpopulation, and endless stagflation. If the efforts to mine Ceres don’t succeed soon, in particular the efforts to recover the element on which cheap fusion will depend, Man’s (and girl’s too!) struggle to expand into space will be doomed. There are not enough spare resources for a second try. In short order, Kevin finds himself on his way to Ceres. The trip will take months, time he can use to fill the gaps left in his education by America’s over-unionized, bureaucratized school system. It’s also time to get to know fellow voyager Ellen, who is far more than the space-whore most of the men assume her to be. She is even more ambitious than Kevin, and even more determined to shape Man’s future. Alas, her plans don’t really have much room for Kevin beyond warm regards. The asteroid belt, if properly exploited, could bring prosperity to all, even degenerate welfare barbarians. Not everyone wants that day to come: their personal interests would be threatened by a rising tide of wealth. Nothing for it but to launch a campaign of sabotage. The plotters have nothing against Kevin personally. He is not in their cross-hairs. The person with whom he insists on spending as much time as possible is an entirely different matter.… Ha ha wow has this not aged well. It is, however, a well-stocked buffet of typical Disco Era Pournelle tropes: space will save us all, economic doom-and-gloom, a pessimistic view of America’s lower classes, and disdain for a dysfunctional justice system and those darn schools. If you’ve wondered if JEP is the author for you, this is probably a decent test case. The main antagonist in the first half of the book is an agent working for rascally Africa: [quote]Ruin for the African bloc meant prosperity for the rest of the world; cheap iron and steel and copper and aluminum, the basic stuff of industrial civilization, would let billions live well who now had no hope at all. Eventually it would mean prosperity for the Africans themselves, but not soon, and not for those who now controlled the African bloc. [/quote] How ungraciously self-centred of the Africans. And how untrusting. If Africans cannot believe the prognostications of people whose livelihoods depend on undermining the African economy, whom can the Africans trust? The other antagonist is merely greedy and in possession of what proves to be a pretty solid get-rich-quick scheme. Younger readers may find the subplot about a sabotaged computer a little perplexing. Once the computer is trashed (along with the long-range radio that will prevent them from calling for computational help), it seems the craft has no choice but to take a free-return orbit back to Earth. The day is saved when a crew member turns out to have his own laptop computer with the right software to calculate an orbit. When this was written, the implications of Moore’s Law hadn’t sunk in for most SF authors; computers were more likely to be giant mainframes rather than small portable units. The idea there would be only a few computers on board looks archaic now, but the notion that someone might happen to have his own laptop was visionary in 1978 . Those interested in the advance of science may be interested to know that at some point after the book was published (but well before Dawn reached Ceres) that our estimates for Ceres’ dimensions were radically altered. The Ceres in this is Ceres as it was thought to be forty years ago and that is a world very different from the worldlet visited by our space probes. For one thing, if the Ceres hypothesized in Exil es had had oceans worth of water in it, I am sure that would have figured into the plot somehow. Why choose Ceres of all asteroids? At the risk of attracting the ire of certain space promoters, I have to say Ceres wouldn’t be high on my list of targets for resources extraction. Granted, the escape velocity is small ( 320 m/s) but since it is the largest asteroid, other asteroids have even lower escape velocities. As well, getting from Ceres orbit to Earth orbit will cost 9 . 5 km/s, IIRC . It is easier to return to Earth from other asteroids. I expect the answer is simply that few people knew one NEO (Near Earth Object) from another back in 1978 and Ceres was a name brand, suitable for dropping into a novel. Interestingly, while the setting in general is one where married women are not allowed to work and where most single women in space are space whores (because the sex trade income is so good) the real plot mover in this is Ellen, not Kevin. He may be the protagonist and he does get to save the day from time to time, but she’s the one with a mission. She’s the reason everything happens as it does. Exiles To Glory by Jerry Pournelle. Hooray! You've discovered a title that's missing from our library. Can you help donate a copy? If you own this book, you can mail it to our address below. You can also purchase this book from a vendor and ship it to our address: Better World Books $5.01 (used) - includes shipping Amazon $6.51 More Bookshop.org. When you buy books using these links the Internet Archive may earn a small commission. Benefits of donating. When you donate a physical book to the Internet Archive, your book will enjoy: Beautiful high-fidelity digitization Long-term archival preservation Free controlled digital library access by the print-disabled and public † Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Exiles To Glory by Jerry Pournelle. - Aneas MacKenzie--he had believed in the man he had helped to reach the office of the presidency of the United States, and had tirelessly rooted out corruption wherever he found it, until the trail led straight back to the White House. After that, no place on Earth was safe for him. - Laurie Jo Hansen--she controlled a multi-national corporation more powerful than many governments. Unlike those governments, she wanted to see Earth's problems solved and reaching the high frontier was the only way to do that. - Kevin Senecal--he had made the mistake of fighting back against a juvenile gang, and accidentally killing one of them while escaping. Both the gang and the law were after him, and on all of Earth there was no place to hide. - Ellen MacMillan--a young employee of the Hansen Corporation who fascinated Kevin, she was on a secret mission, and the biggest secret was her real name. Two complete --High Justice and Exiles to Glory--in one volume by a New York Times best-selling author, telling of an Earth sinking into a morass of corruption, red tape, and failure of nerve, while a dedicated few dare to reach for the stars. $7.99. [-] Other Available Formats Our Price New & Used Marketplace Exile-And Glory (Hardcover) Published: 2008-08-05 Publisher: Baen $23.00 10 copies from $6.00. More About Exile - And Glory by Jerry Pournelle. Overview. - Aneas MacKenzie--he had believed in the man he had helped to reach the office of the presidency of the United States, and had tirelessly rooted out corruption wherever he found it, until the trail led straight back to the White House. After that, no place on Earth was safe for him. - Laurie Jo Hansen--she controlled a multi-national corporation more powerful than many governments. Unlike those governments, she wanted to see Earth's problems solved and reaching the high frontier was the only way to do that. - Kevin Senecal--he had made the mistake of fighting back against a juvenile gang, and accidentally killing one of them while escaping. Both the gang and the law were after him, and on all of Earth there was no place to hide. - Ellen MacMillan--a young employee of the Hansen Corporation who fascinated Kevin, she was on a secret mission, and the biggest secret was her real name. Two complete novels--High Justice and Exiles to Glory--in one volume by a New York Times best-selling author, telling of an Earth sinking into a morass of corruption, red tape, and failure of nerve, while a dedicated few dare to reach for the stars.