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Jerry Pournelle

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

Jerry Pournelle

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Jerry Pournelle is saying that he began his career in science fiction writing during the early 1970s, and when he became president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, he was the first president who was not already well-known. This highlights that before him, the organization's leaders were all familiar figures in the field, whereas he was relatively unknown at the time of his presidency.

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