Harold Mead

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Harold Charles Hugh Mead (born September 25, 1910 in Ootacamund , Travancore , India ; died September 2, 1997 in London ) was a British science fiction writer.

Life

Mead's parents were the tea planter Alfred Hugh Mead and Winifred Ada, nee Whitby. Born in the Nilgiri Mountains in southern India , Mead came to England at an early age, where he entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1929, before serving in the Dorsetshire Regiment of the British Army from 1930 . In 1936 he married Kathleen Richards, with whom he had two sons. In 1941 he graduated from Staff College in Camberley . He later studied at St. Catherine's College of Cambridge University , where he in 1950 with the Master graduated. During the Second World War he was a Japanese prisoner of war in Siam for four years . In 1948 he retired from military service. He was then from 1952 to 1963 Head of the Hall of Residence at the University of Southampton .

Mead has written two science fiction novels in addition to articles for John Bull , Blackwood’s and similar magazines. The first, The Bright Phoenix , appeared in 1955, and describes a post-apocalyptic world in which a socialist state sends genetically selected people to repopulate the devastated earth, but it fails. The second novel Mary's Country (1957, German as Marys Land ) is also about a destroyed world. Here it is a group of children from a nursery of a totalitarian perfectionist state who have to cross an area contaminated by bacteriological weapons . To survive, children must overcome the conditioning and norms of their upbringing.

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  • The Bright Phoenix (1955)
    • German: The shining phoenix. Moewig (Terra special volume # 18), 1959.
  • Mary's Country (1957)
    • German: Marys Land. Translated by NO Scarpi. Fretz & Wasmuth, 1959. Abridged new edition: Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3059, 1965. Additional edition: Ullstein (Oceanic Library 1984 # 20451), 1984, ISBN 3-548-20451-1 .

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SURNAME Mead, Harold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mead, Harold Charles Hugh (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Ootacamund , Travancore , India
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1997
Place of death London