Jerry Pournelle

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Jerry Eugene Pournelle (August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American science fiction writer, essayist and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte.

He has a reputation for writing hard science fiction, and did some of his best fiction work in collaboration with Larry Niven.

Pournelle served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1973.

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Winners of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer / Astounding Award for Best New Writer

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer: 1973–2019	Jerry Pournelle (1973) tie: Spider Robinson and Lisa Tuttle (1974) P. J. Plauger (1975) Tom Reamy (1976) C. J. Cherryh (1977) Orson Scott Card (1978) Stephen R. Donaldson (1979) Barry B. Longyear (1980) Somtow Sucharitkul (1981) Alexis A. Gilliland (1982) Paul O. Williams (1983) R. A. MacAvoy (1984) Lucius Shepard (1985) Melissa Scott (1986) Karen Joy Fowler (1987) Judith Moffett (1988) Michaela Roessner (1989) Kristine Kathryn Rusch (1990) Julia Ecklar (1991) Ted Chiang (1992) Laura Resnick (1993) Amy Thomson (1994) Jeff Noon (1995) David Feintuch (1996) Michael A. Burstein (1997) Mary Doria Russell (1998) Nalo Hopkinson (1999) Cory Doctorow (2000) Kristine Smith (2001) Jo Walton (2002) Wen Spencer (2003) Jay Lake (2004) Elizabeth Bear (2005) John Scalzi (2006) Naomi Novik (2007) Mary Robinette Kowal (2008) David Anthony Durham (2009) Seanan McGuire (2010) Lev Grossman (2011) E. Lily Yu (2012) Mur Lafferty (2013) Sofia Samatar (2014) Wesley Chu (2015) Andy Weir (2016) Ada Palmer (2017) Rebecca Roanhorse (2018) Jeannette Ng (2019)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer: 2020–	R. F. Kuang (2020)