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Jerry Pournelle was a prolific science fiction author, essayist, and computer columnist whose work shaped both speculative fiction and early personal computing. His novels, like *The Mote in God’s Eye* (co-written with Larry Niven), are praised for hard-science accuracy and military strategy. Tech enthusiasts and writers benefit from his pragmatic “Pournelle’s Laws” and his influential *Byte* magazine column, which guided users through PC hardware and software in the 1980s and 1990s.