Bury, Horace Hussein Chamoun al-Shamlan: Imperial Trader and Magnate; Chairman of the Board, Imperial Autonetics Ltd; native of the planet Levant; educated on Sparta, the Imperial capital; owner of the space yacht Sinbad.

Horace Bury appears as one of the minor characters in The Mote in God's Eye, a novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. While being held under open arrest on board INSS MacArthur on suspicion of treason and of fomenting rebellion against the Imperial Government on the planet New Chicago, Bury is taken on the expedition sent to Mote System as a result of the arrival in Human space of a Motie light-sail-driven ship. He thereby comes to know and to dread the threat the Moties present to Humanity. Under the threat of being shot as a traitor he is coerced into acting as a secret agent for the Imperial Government to watch for and to prevent any attempts by any group of Humans to make contact with Moties. Sir Kevin Renner is appointed his political overseer.

In the sequel book, The Moat around Murcheson's Eye, he moves centre stage, and in the course of the action in that book are revealed his reasons for acting as he did - not as a greedy Trader making money from others' misfortunes, but as an Arab patriot supporting his own people in their struggle to obtain the right to live under their own customs. By the start of this book he has achieved this.

When he meets the Moties who are alive at the start of the sequel book he finds that his Trader manner of thought and action has been adopted by many of the Mediator caste, that Bury-style Mediators have become a trade item in their own right, and that these Mediators provide the basis of trade and negotiation among many of the groupings of Moties inside Mote System.