Day of the Tyrant - There Will Be War, Bk 4
created by Jerry Pournelle
associate editor John F Carr
ISBN-13: 9780812549577
ISBN-10: 0812549570
Publication Date: 4/1993
Publisher: Tor Books
Paperback
4.1 x 6.9 inches, 370 pages

From the dark pit of our own barbaric souls the tyrants are summoned. Brutal masters of our own monstrous making, they will hammer the universe into submission, until their merciless domination extends beyond the rim of space, and whole galaxies quail before the dawning of the day of the tyrant. Only the best and the bravest of the generations to come can resist their iron will, their terrible violence. With defiant hearts that thrill to Freedom's wild battlecry, these few will fight the oppressors to a standstill, sacrificing their lives so that their people may have the stars.
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Dr Jerry Eugene Pournelle is an American science fiction writer, engineer, essayist, and journalist, who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte, and has since 1998 been maintaining his own website and blog.

From the beginning, Pournelle's work has centred around strong military themes. Several books describe the fictional mercenary infantry force known as Falkenberg's Legion. There are strong parallels between these stories and the Childe Cycle mercenary stories by Gordon R. Dickson, as well as Heinlein's Starship Troopers, although Pournelle's work takes far fewer technological leaps than either of these.

Pournelle served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1973.

As of early 2008, Pournelle has been battling a brain tumor, which appears to be responding favorably to radiation treatment.