Portnoy, Howard N
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1946- ) US author and teacher whose Hot Rain (1977) seems to start off as a Horror fantasy about apparently supernatural bolts of lightning. Eventually, however, a ludicrous pseudoscientific explanation (see Scientific Errors) is found in a secret military project. [JC]
see also: Weather Control.
Howard N Portnoy
born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 10 September 1946
works
- Hot Rain (New York: Putnam, 1977) [hb/]
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