Dr. Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven

From an award-winning science fiction novel by Dr. Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, The Mote in God's Eye, Crazy Eddie is the one who leads the garbage workers out on strike for higher wages the day after the city has declared bankruptcy.

Jerry Pournelle

In the classic 1975 first-contact SF novel The Mote in God's Eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, an alien describes a very difficult task by saying “We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity.”