Harold Mead
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.
bibliography
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The Bright Phoenix (1955)
- German: The shining phoenix. Moewig (Terra special volume # 18), 1959.
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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 .
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 288.
- Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 718 f.
- John Clute : Mead, Harold. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.
- Robert Reginald : Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. A Checklist, 1700-1974 with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II. Gale, Detroit 1979, ISBN 0-8103-1051-1 , p. 997.
- Donald H. Tuck : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Advent, Chicago 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1 , p. 304.
Web links
- Literature by and about Harold Mead in the catalog of the German National Library
- Harold Mead in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Harold Mead at Open Library
personal data | |
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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 |