Christopher Hodder-Williams

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John Christopher Glazebrook Hodder-Williams (born August 25, 1926 - May 15, 1995 in London ) was a British science fiction writer, musician and composer.

He attended Eton College , served as an officer and pilot in the Royal Corps of Signals in the Middle East from 1944 to 1948 , and then worked for a year at the publishing house Hodder and Stoughton , which his father Ralph Hodder-Williams ran. In the 1950s he went to New York and wrote music for Broadway , at times with Noël Coward . Returning to the UK, he wrote as a music journalist for Melody Maker and worked as a jazz pianist. He wrote music for the theater and the Steve Race Orchestra, then also for the TV series Armchair Theater , which ran on the new private television station ITV . From 1958 he also appeared as a writer of thrillers , science fiction novels and aviator books (sometimes under the pseudonym James Brogan ).

Works

  • The Cummings Report (1957)
  • Chain Reaction (1959; German: chain reaction , 1960)
  • The Egg-Shaped Thing (1962)
  • The Main Experiment (1966)
  • A Fistful of Digits (1968; German: The great humming god , 1969 and 1972)
  • 98.4 (1969), also published as Ninety-Eight Point Four
  • Final Approach (German: Flugzeugunlück , 1963)
  • Higher They Fly (1973)
  • Panic O'Clock (1973; German: Virus der Angst , 1981)
  • Coward's Paradise (1974; German: Das Paradies der Feiglinge , 1986)
  • Turbulence (German: Conflicts around K 11 , 1965)
  • The Prayer Machine (1976; German: Die Gebetsmaschine , 1977 and 1986)
  • The Silent Voice (1977; German: The Invisible War , 1979)
  • The Thinktank That Leaked (1979)
  • Chromosome Game (1984)

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personal data
SURNAME Hodder-Williams, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hodder-Williams, John Christopher Glazebrook (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British science fiction writer, musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1926
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1995
Place of death London