Blaine Pardoe

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{{Autobiography|date=October 2023}}

{{Short description|American military historian and writer}}{{Use American English|date=December 2023}}
{{Mdy|date=December 2023}}{{Infobox writer
| name = Blaine Pardoe
| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|6 November 1962}}
| birth_place = [[Newport News, Virginia]]
| occupation = Writer, author
| genre = {{hlist|Science fiction|[[true crime]]|[[thriller (genre)|thriller]]|[[military history]]}}
| website = {{url|http://www.blainepardoe.com/index.html}}
| alma_mater = [[Central Michigan University]]
}}
'''Blaine Lee Pardoe''' is an American author and military historian, known primarily for writing the ''[[List of BattleTech novels|BattleTech]]'' and ''[[MechWarrior: Dark Age (novels)|MechWarrior: Dark Age]]'' series of science fiction books.

== Personal life ==
Pardoe was born in [[Newport News, Virginia]], in 1962 and raised in [[Battle Creek, Michigan]]. He attended [[Central Michigan University]], where he wrote for the school newspaper. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in business management, he worked for Michigan auto companies Ford, GM, and Chrysler. He began writing for sci-fi games and reference books and moved back to Virginia. For 25 years he worked in IT Services at Ernst & Young LLP before retiring to write full time.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Blaine Pardoe - Author |url=http://www.blainepardoe.com/page2.html |access-date=2022-08-02 |website=www.blainepardoe.com}}</ref> Pardoe lives in Spotsylvania, Virginia.<ref name="Star">{{cite news |date=October 2, 2008 |title=A moment with Pardoe |publisher=[[Media General|Culpeper Star-Exponent]] |url=http://www2.starexponent.com/cse/entertainment/columnists/article/a_moment_with_pardoe/22044/ |url-status=dead |access-date=May 10, 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130203023042/http://www2.starexponent.com/cse/entertainment/columnists/article/a_moment_with_pardoe/22044/ |archive-date=February 3, 2013}} </ref>

== Career ==
Pardoe designed the ''[[Domination (role-playing game)|Domination]]'' role-playing game, which was published by StarChilde Publications in 1989.<ref name="HW">{{cite book |last=Schick |first=Lawrence |title=Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games |publisher=Prometheus Books |year=1991 |isbn=0-87975-653-5 |page=289 |author-link=Lawrence Schick}}</ref> He was a writer for ''[[BattleTech]]'''s fiction. His best-known book in the ''[[MechWarrior: Dark Age (novels)|MechWarrior: Dark Age]]'' line was ''Surrender Your Dreams''. ''Hour of the Wolf'', written by Pardoe, is [[Catalyst Game Labs|Catalyst Game Lab]]'s bestselling ''BattleTech'' novel. He contributed stories to the online pay-to-read fiction website Battlecorps.{{Cn|date=December 2023}}

Pardoe has been a guest speaker at the U.S. National Archives, the U.S. Navy Museum, the Smithsonian, the Mariner's Museum, and the [[New York Military Affairs Symposium]]. He won the Historical Society of Michigan's State History Award in 2011 and the Silver Medal from the Military Writer's Society of America the same year for his book ''Lost Eagles'' about Frederick Zinn of the Lafayette Flying Corps. His books have appeared on several bestseller lists, including the New York Times Murder and Mayhem list in October 2014, on Amazon.com, and in numerous newspapers.{{Cn|date=December 2023}}

On July 30, 2022, Catalyst Game Labs announced they were suspending publication of new works by Pardoe "primarily due to Mr. Pardoe’s online activities, which do not align with Catalyst’s publishing vision."<ref>{{cite web |date=July 30, 2022 |title=Statement Regarding Blaine Lee Pardoe |url=https://bg.battletech.com/forums/general-discussion/statement-regarding-blaine-lee-pardoe/ |access-date=August 8, 2024 |website=BattleTech |archive-date=August 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805192803/https://bg.battletech.com/forums/general-discussion/statement-regarding-blaine-lee-pardoe/ |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> In an article on the website American Greatness, Pardoe wrote: "I found myself [[Cancel culture|canceled]] for voicing my conservative beliefs".<ref>{{cite web |date=July 29, 2022 |title=My Publisher Canceled Me in Favor of an Activist Who Threatened My Life |url=https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/29/my-publisher-canceled-me-in-favor-of-an-activist-who-threatened-my-life/ |access-date=August 1, 2022 |website=American Greatness}}</ref>

In the last few years, Pardoe has been the primary writer for another Mecha series, ''Land&Sea''. He and comic book legend Mike Barron have written a bestselling political thriller series called ''Tenure''. His series, ''Blue Dawn'' has been widely acclaimed as a conservative political thriller/alternate history series.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516034953/http://www.battlecorps.com/|date=2008-05-16|title=Battlecorps}}
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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:American science fiction writers]]
[[Category:American military historians]]
[[Category:American role-playing designers]]
[[Category:People from Rappahannock County, Virginia]]
[[Category:Novelists from Virginia]]
[[Category:American male novelists]]
[[Category:American male non-fiction writers]]
[[Category:Role-playing game writers]]
[[Category:Historians from Virginia]]
[[Category:1962 births]]

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