{"product_id":"oath-of-fealty-9781647100483","title":"Oath of Fealty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrometheus Award Hall of Fame finalist and one of the 100 best science fiction novels from 1949-1984 as selected by critic David Pringle.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis classic of libertarian science fiction explores how the citizens of a near-future Los Angeles wrestle with poverty, privacy, and technology when faced with a choice between corporate feudalism and government dysfunction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a dystopian future, where pollution, overpopulation, and violence overrun Los Angeles streets, a Utopia flourishes. Todos Santos is thousand-foot-high arcology, a self-contained single-structured city that rises above the festering skyscrapers to offer its privileged residents the perfect blend of technology and security in exchange for their oath of allegiance and vigilance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut is this orderly city elevating humanity, or shackling it? There are those who feel the constant video surveillance oppressive, rather than inclusive, or that the city is monopolizing hard-earned resources, and taking money away from the poorer Angelinos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConnected through neural implants to MILLIE - the AI that runs all of Todos Santos' systems - Art Bonner and Barbara Churchwood work with a team of dedicated staff to protect the city against the FROMATEs (\"Friends of Man and the Earth\"), who are a group of anti-technology zealots dedicated to destroying everything they have built. When three youths break into the city, to see if they can exploit its weaknesses, the repercussions of their actions threaten to bring one of humanities most ambitious projects to its knees...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1981, \u003ci\u003eOath of Fealty\u003c\/i\u003e is one of several works by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, including \u003ci\u003eThe Mote in God's Eye\u003c\/i\u003e (1974) and \u003ci\u003eLucifer's Hammer\u003c\/i\u003e (1977).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNiven, Larry:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Larry Niven is an American science fiction writer. His\u003cbr\u003ebest-known works are \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eRingworld \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(1970), which received \u003cb\u003eHugo, Locus, Ditmar\u003c\/b\u003e, and\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNebula \u003c\/b\u003eawards, and, with Jerry Pournelle, \u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Mote in God's Eye\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(1974) and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLucifer's\u003cbr\u003eHammer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (1977). The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named him the\u003cbr\u003e2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is\u003cbr\u003eprimarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical\u003cbr\u003ephysics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure\u003cbr\u003estories. His fantasy includes the series The \u003ci\u003eMagic Goes Away\u003c\/i\u003e, rational fantasy\u003cbr\u003edealing with magic as a non-renewable resource.He is a great-grandson of Edward L. Doheny, an oil tycoon\u003cbr\u003ewho drilled the first successful well in the Los Angeles City Oil Field in\u003cbr\u003e1892, and also was subsequently implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal. He\u003cbr\u003ebriefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a\u003cbr\u003eBachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn\u003cbr\u003eUniversity in Topeka, Kansas in 1962. He also completed a year of graduate work\u003cbr\u003ein mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. On September 6, \u003cbr\u003e1969, he married Marilyn Wisowaty, a science fiction and Regency literature\u003cbr\u003efan.\u003cbr\u003eNiven has written scripts for three science fiction\u003cbr\u003etelevision series: the original\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Land of the Lost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e series; \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStar Trek: The\u003cbr\u003eAnimated Series\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, for which he adapted his early story \"The Soft\u003cbr\u003eWeapon\"; and\u003ci\u003e The Outer Limits\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he adapted his story\u003cbr\u003e\"Inconstant Moon\" into an episode of the same name.\u003cbr\u003eHe has also written for the DC Comics character \u003ci\u003eGreen\u003cbr\u003eLantern\u003c\/i\u003e, including in his stories hard science fiction concepts such as\u003cbr\u003euniversal entropy and the redshift effect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePournelle, Jerry:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jerry Pournelle was an American polymath: scientist in the\u003cbr\u003earea of operations research and human factors research, science fiction writer, \u003cbr\u003eessayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. In the 1960s and early\u003cbr\u003e1970s, he worked in the aerospace industry, but eventually focused on his\u003cbr\u003ewriting career. In an obituary in Gizmodo, he is described as \"a tireless\u003cbr\u003eambassador for the future.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis hard science fiction writing received multiple awards.\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to his solo writing, he wrote several novels with collaborators\u003cbr\u003eincluding Larry Niven. Pournelle served a term as President of the Science\u003cbr\u003eFiction and Fantasy Writers of America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePournelle's journalism focused primarily on the computer\u003cbr\u003eindustry, astronomy, and space exploration. From the 1970s until the early\u003cbr\u003e1990s, he contributed to the computer magazine Byte, writing from the viewpoint\u003cbr\u003eof an intelligent user, with the oft-cited credo, \"We do this stuff so you\u003cbr\u003ewon't have to.\" He created one of the first blogs, entitled \"Chaos\u003cbr\u003eManor\", which included commentary about politics, computer technology, \u003cbr\u003espace technology, and science fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe held paleoconservative political views, which were\u003cbr\u003esometimes expressed in his fiction. He was one of the founders of the Citizens'\u003cbr\u003eAdvisory Council on National Space Policy, which developed some of the Reagan\u003cbr\u003eAdministration's space initiatives, including the earliest versions of what\u003cbr\u003ewould become the Strategic Defense Initiative.","brand":"CAEZIK SF \u0026 Fantasy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50485415837970,"sku":"9781647100483","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_43594da7-9ddc-4659-afa6-5f51383d5069.jpg?v=1737211479","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/oath-of-fealty-9781647100483","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}