Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Pournelle (1933-2017) was an American science fiction writer, political scientist and columnist, born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He is best known for novels written with Larry Niven, including The Mote in God's Eye, Lucifer's Hammer and Footfall, and for his own military science fiction, notably the Janissaries series.

He edited the There Will Be War anthologies, and wrote for Byte magazine for decades, where his Chaos Manor column made him a prominent voice on personal computing. He received the Prometheus Award and, in 2016, the National Space Society's Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award for lifetime achievement.