Jerry Pournelle

Eugene Jerry Pournelle ( Shreveport , August 7 1933 ) is an American science fiction writer . ==[Biography  edit ] == Jerry Pournelle was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and studied in Tennessee . He served in the US Army during the Korean War and graduated after the war down in political science , psychology , statistics and engineering . He went to work as assistant to the mayor of Los Angeles and as research director for the city of Los Angeles. He also worked as a campaign worker for several American politicians. He also had jobs in various aerospace agencies, including at Boeing .

In 1965 Pournelle began writing the first years under the pseudonym Wade Curtis. In 1973 he won the Campbell Award for best new writer, and in 1992 he won the Prometheus Award . ==In Dutch books translated [  edit ] ==
 * 1974 - The mote in God's eye (with Larry Niven)
 * 1977 - The Hammer of Lucifer (with Larry Niven)
 * 1980 - Inferno (with Larry Niven)
 * 1988 - prostration
 * Heorot series (with Larry Niven and Steven Barnes )
 * 1988 - Heorot
 * 1996 - The Dragons of Heorot
 * 1993 - The hand that takes (with Larry Niven)
 * 2001 - The burning city