Hugh Zachary

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Hugh Derrel Zachary (born January 12, 1928 in Holdenville , Oklahoma; died September 5, 2016 in Winter Springs , Florida ) was an American writer of science fiction , western , and adult novels . He used a number of pseudonyms . Virtually all of his science fiction novels appeared under the name of Zach Hughes . He also used a number of other pseudonyms, including Peter Danielson, Evan Innes, Peter Kanto and Donald Clayton Porter.

Life

Zachary was the son of John F. Zachary, a construction worker, and Ida, née Duckworth. He studied at the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College from 1945 to 1946 . From 1946 to 1948 he served in the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division . He then studied at the University of North Carolina , where he graduated in 1951 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. From 1948 to 1961 he was a newscaster for various radio and television stations. After that he occasionally worked as a fisherman, tourist guide, florist, construction worker and writer. Since 1948 he was married to Elizabeth Wiggs, with whom he had two children.

A first novel ( One Day in Hell ) was published in 1961. From the mid-1960s, Zachary began to publish erotic novels in rapid succession under the pseudonym Peter Kanto , mainly for the California publisher Brandon House . Some of these novels were set in science fiction worlds, for example The World Where Sex Was Born (1968, published in German as Sexplanet ).

In 1972 Zachary switched completely to the science fiction genre, where he published a number of novels in the following years under the pseudonym Zach Hughes . Mention should be made here of Zachary's first SF novel, The Book of Rack the Healer (1972), which is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which humanity has disintegrated into four types with very different abilities. The novel Thunderworld , published in 1982, provides the background for this situation as a prequel . In addition, Zachary wrote the Däniken - Parody Seed of the Gods (1974, German Among millions of cataloged heavenly bodies there was a small yellow sun with a bevy of planet ... ). Zachary's SF topics are (threatening) ecological catastrophes, post-apocalyptic societies and (telepathic) contacts with alien forms of life.

From the early 1980s, Zachary also wrote a number of westerns under his real name. He has also written two non-fiction books and three novels with his wife. Under the pseudonym Peter Danielson, he wrote three volumes of Children of the Lion , a cycle of historical novels set in the biblical past.

In 1993, at the age of 65, Zachary ended his career as a writer and started selling health products over the Internet with his wife. Zachary died in 2016 at the age of 88.

bibliography

Science fiction

Unless otherwise noted, published under Zach Hughes .

Thunderworld cycle
  • 1 The Book of Rack the Healer. Award Books, New York 1972.
  • 2 Thunderworld. Signet, New York 1982, ISBN 0-451-11290-3 .
America 2040 Cycle (as Evan Innes)
  • 1 America 2040 (1986)
  • 2 The Golden World (1986)
  • 3 The City in the Mist (1987)
  • 4 The Return (1988)
  • 5 The Star Explorer (1988)
Single novels

Western film

Unless otherwise noted, published under Hugh Zachary .

Sheriff Jugg series
Tusk Smith series
Sierra Leone series
The White Indian series (as Donald Clayton Porter)
  • War Drums (1986)
  • Apache (1987)
  • Spirit Knife (1988)
  • Manitou (1988)
  • Seneca Warrior (1989)
  • Father Of Waters (1989)
  • Fallen Timbers (1990)
  • Sachem's Son (1990)
  • Sachem's Daughter (1991)
  • Seneca Patriots (1991)
  • Hawk's Journey (1992)
  • Father and Son (1993)
  • War Clouds (1994)
  • Red Stick (1994)
Single novels

eroticism

Unless otherwise noted, published under Peter Kanto .

  • Call Me Gay (1965)
  • A Man Called Sex (1965)
  • Two Way Beach Girl (1965)
  • Beach Wife (1966)
  • The Bedroom Beat (1966)
  • Color Her Willing (1966)
  • Glamor Boy (1966)
  • Gold in Her Eyes (1966)
  • License to Prowl (1966)
  • One Lonely Summer (1966)
  • Too Young to Wait (1966)
  • Matinee in Three Scenes (1967)
  • May Johnson's Girls (1967)
  • The Love Standard (1967)
  • Neighborly Lover (1967)
  • Tomcat (1967)
  • The Ring (1968, as Marcus van Heller)
  • A Small Slice of War (1968)
  • Moonlighting Wives (1968)
  • A Small Slice Of War (1968)
  • Suddenly, Wonderfully Gay (1968)
  • Two Beds for Liz (1968)
  • The World Where Sex Was Born (1968)
    • German: Sexplanet. Olympia Press, 1971.
  • The Coupling Game (1969)
    • German: The big sex game. Olympia Press, 1970. Also called: The Big Game . Ullstein # 20790, 1987, ISBN 3-548-20790-1 .
  • Green Thumb and Silver Tongue (1969)
    • German: The divining rod. Olympia Press, 1970.
  • Rosy Cheeks (1969)
  • Taste of Evil (1969)
  • Twenty Nights in Eros (1969)
  • Unnatural Urges (1969)
  • Cocksure on Campus (1970)
  • A Dick for All Seasons (1970, as Pablo Kane)
  • Naked Joy (1970)
  • On Campus (1970)
  • Rake's Junction (1970)
  • The Sex Experimenters of Diddle U (1971)
  • Super Sex Stars (1971)
  • Doing It With Daughter (1972)
  • Lay-A-Day! (1972)
  • Lustful Nights (1974)

More novels

Children of the Lion cycle (as Peter Danielson)
  • 16 Departed Glory (1993)
  • 17 The Death of Kings (1994)
  • 18 The Shining King (1995)
The Hotel Destiny series
  • The Adlon Link (1981)
  • Fortress London (1981)
  • Fires of Paris (1981)
  • Tower of Treason (1982)
The Australian series (as William Stuart Long)
  • The Seafarers (1988)
  • The Nationalists (1989)
  • The Imperialists (1990)
The Robber Baron series (as Gerald Canfield)
  • Power and Glory (1992)
  • Wealth and Passion (1993)
Single novels
  • One Day in Hell (1961)
  • A Small Slice of War (1968)
  • A Feast of Fat Things (1968)
  • Rake's Junction (1970)
  • Competition For Alan (1971, as Val Peters)
  • The Legend of the Deadly Doll (1973)
  • Second Chance (1976)
  • Dynasty of Desire (1978, with Elizabeth Zachary)
  • The Land Rushers (1978, with Elizabeth Zachary)
  • Blazing Vixen (1980, with Elizabeth Zachary)
  • The Golden Dynasty (1980, with Elizabeth Zachary)
  • Love and Battle (1980, with Elizabeth Zachary)
  • Bloodrush (1981)
  • Murder in White (1981)
  • The Venus Venture (1981)
  • Tower of Treason (1982)
  • Flight to Freedom (1982)
  • Desert Battle (1982)
  • Bitter Victory (1983)
  • Closed System (1986)
  • The Revenant (1988)
  • Munday (2003)

Non-fiction

  • The Beachcomber's Handbook of Seafood Cookery (1969)
  • Wild Card Poker (1976)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Accent on Health ( Memento of December 7, 1998 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Marcus van Heller is a publishing pseudonym of Olympia Press , which was mainly used by John Stevenson .
  3. ^ Publishing pseudonym of Bantam Books for the Children of the Lion series
personal data
SURNAME Zachary, Hugh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zachary, Hugh Derrel (full name); Canfield, Gerald (pen name); Danielson, Peter (pseudonym); Heller, Marcus van (pseudonym); Hughes, Zach (pen name); Innes, Evan (pseudonym); Kanto, Peter (pseudonym); Long, William Stuart (pen name); Peters, Val (pseudonym); Porter, Donald Clayton (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Holdenville , Oklahoma
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 2016
Place of death Winter Springs , Florida