Jerry Pournelle chaired the Citizens’ Advisory Council on National Space Policy from 1980 to 1994 — the group whose reports shaped Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative and whose third report was directly quoted in Reagan’s 1983 Star Wars speech — while simultaneously writing the military science fiction that David Weber, John Ringo, Larry Correia, and every serious milSF author working today is built on. He co-wrote The Mote in God’s Eye with Larry Niven, which Robert Heinlein called “possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read.” He predicted the internet in 1980. He won the first John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He died in 2017 at eighty-four. SFWA never made him Grand Master. The mainstream SF conversation has been letting him drift from view for a decade — and the indie and crowdfunded SF space he helped build is steadily rebuilding his tradition without saying his name out loud.
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