And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.

Carr. Green Michael Flynn and Steven Barnes and collaborated as an editor on an anthology series with John F. Pournelle opposed both Gulf Wars maintaining that the money would be better spent developing energy technologies for the United States.

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