Kenneth Harker

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Kenneth Harker (born April 2, 1927 in Darlington , County Durham ; died April 2003 in Redcar and Cleveland ) was a British science fiction writer.

Life

Harker was the son of stationmaster John William Harker and of Ella, née Pallister. He studied physics at the University of Durham and served as a radar specialist in the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers of the British Army from 1947 to 1949 . He then worked for the Ministry of Supply until 1951, for the British Ceramic Research Association until 1955 , and then as an engineer for Imperial Chemical Industries until 1962 . From 1962 to 1966 he tried to establish himself as a freelance writer, but found the income insufficient. He then worked for Newalls Insulation as a sound and heat insulation technician .

Harker had published crime and fantasy stories as early as the 1960s . In 1966 the first SF short story Coq appeared in Michael Moorcock's magazine New Worlds and in the same year the novel The Symmetrians , in which a cult of "absolute symmetry" becomes religion in a post-apocalyptic world. Harker's second novel The Flowers of February (1970) appeared under the title Die Sonne wird colder also in German translation.

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Novels
  • The Symmetrians (1966)
  • The Flowers of February (1970)
    • German: The sun is getting colder. Translated by Hans-Ulrich Nichau. Goldmann's Space Paperback # 0129, 1971, ISBN 3-442-23129-9 .
Short stories
  • Colossus of Roads (1961)
  • Cog (1966)
  • Sadim's Touch (1976)
  • Sport of the Oak (1977)
  • The Man from Car (1989)
  • The Damocles Harp (1995)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Harker, Kenneth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Darlington , County Durham
DATE OF DEATH April 2003
Place of death Redcar and Cleveland