Lee Harding (writer)

Lee John Harding (born February 19, 1937 in Colac , Victoria ) is an Australian science fiction writer and photographer .

Life

Harding was a founding member of the Melbourne Science Fiction Club in 1952 and contributed to several fanzines, including the Australian Science Fiction Review , which he co-founded.

In his earlier years he mainly worked as a photographer and as such documented the photos of Stanley Kramer's The Last Shore in 1959 and of Fred Zinnemann's The Endless Horizon in 1960 .

In 1961 his first SF short story Displaced Person appeared , which he expanded into a novel in 1979. The novel was published in German under the title Limbus .

He was involved in an authoring workshop held by Ursula K. LeGuin in connection with Aussiecon One , Worldcon 1975 in Melbourne , and was editor of an anthology on it, The Altered I , which appeared in 1976.

Harding was married to Carla Bleeker from 1960 to 1974, with whom he has two sons and a daughter. In 1982 he married Irene Anne Pagram, with whom he has a daughter.

Awards

• 1970: Ditmar Award for Dancing Gerontius
• 1972: Ditmar Award for Fallen Spaceman
• 1978: Alan Marshall Award for Displaced Person
• 1980: Australian Children's Book of the Year Award
• 2006: A. Bertram Chandler Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement

bibliography

Novels

• The Fallen Spaceman (1973)
• A World of Shadows (1975)
• The Frozen Sky (1975)
• Children of Atlantis (1976)
• Return to Tomorrow (1976)
• Future Sanctuary (1976)
• The Weeping Sky (1977)
• Displaced Person (1979, also as: Misplaced Persons )
  • German: Limbus. Heyne SF&F # 4373, 1987, ISBN 3-453-31372-0 .
• The Web of Time (1980)
• Waiting for the End of the World (1983)

Short stories

• Displaced Person (1961)
• Sacrificial (1961)
• Conviction (1961)
• Echo (1961)
• Pressure (1962)
• Late (1962)
• Dragonfly (1962)
• Terminal (1962)
• Birthright (1962)
• Quest (1963)
• All My Yesterdays (1963)
• The Lonely City (1963)
• The Evidence (1964)
• The Liberators (1965)
• Shock Treatment (1967)
• Consumer Report (1969)
• Dancing Gerontius (1969)
• Takeover (1970, as Harold G. Nye)
• Rebirth (1970)
• Soul Survivors (1970)
• Spaceman (1970)
• The Custodian (1970)
• The Changer (1970, as Harold G. Nye)
• Echoes of Armageddon (1970)
• The Communication Machine (1970)
• Cassandra's Castle (1970)
• Mistress of the Mind (1971)
• The Immortal (1971)
• Fallen Spaceman (1971)
• Night of Passage (1975)
• Love in the City (1976)
• The Cage of Flesh (1978)

Anthologies

• Beyond Tomorrow: An Anthology of Modern Science Fiction (1976)
• The Altered I: An Encounter with Science Fiction (1976)
• Rooms of Paradise (1978)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 189.
• John Clute : Harding, Lee. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.
• Van Ikin: Harding, Lee . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 356 f.
• Donald H. Tuck : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Advent, Chicago 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1 , p. 205.

Web links

• Literature by and about Lee Harding in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lee Harding in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Lee Harding in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
• Works by and about Lee Harding (writer) at Open Library
• Lee Harding in Fantastic Fiction (English)
• Lee Harding in Fancyclopedia 3 (English)