Blaine Pardoe

On July 30, 2022, Catalyst Game Labs announced that they were protecting their company's reputation by suspending publication of new works by Pardoe “primarily due to Mr. Pardoe’s online activities which do not align with Catalyst’s publishing vision.” Pardoe has claimed in an article that the decision was the result of cancel culture.

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. 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 (University of Michigan Press) about Frederick Zinn of the Lafayette Flying Corps. His books have appeared on several bestseller lists both including the New York Times Murder and Mayhem list in October 2014 and on Amazon.com and in numerous newspapers.

In 2008 his book on Frank Luke Jr., Terror of the Autumn Skies, was released (Skyhorse Publishing, 2008). His most recent BattleTech novel is No Substitute for Victory. His most recent political thriller is A Most Uncivil War.

Pardoe designed the Domination role-playing game, which was published by StarChilde Publications in 1989 and was once a writer for Battletech's fiction. His best known book in the MechWarrior Dark Ages line was Surrender Your Dreams. His book, "Hour of the Wolf," remains Catalyst's bestselling BattleTech novel. He contributed stories to on-line pay-to-read fiction website, Battlecorps.

Pardoe was born in Newport News, Virginia in 1962 and was raised in Battle Creek, Michigan. He attended Central Michigan University where he wrote for CM Life, the schools 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 scifi game and reference books and moved back to Virginia.