Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Pournelle (1933–2017) was an American science fiction writer who also worked as a scientist in operations research and human factors, and spent the 1960s and early 1970s in the aerospace industry. He wrote several novels with collaborators, including Larry Niven on Footfall and The Mote in God's Eye, the first book of the Moties series. He was also a journalist who wrote for Byte magazine from the 1970s until the early 1990s, and was one of the first bloggers through his Chaos Manor site.