Colebatch, Hal
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1945-2019) Australian lawyer, the third son of the Australian politician Sir Hal Colebatch (1872-1953), and author of much nonfiction written from a conservative point of view. His career as a fiction writer was long restricted to the contribution of various Ties to Larry Niven's Man-Kzin Wars Shared World enterprise, beginning with "The Colonels' Tiger" in Man-Kzin Wars VII (anth 1995) edited by Larry Niven. Most prominently, several subsequent tales focusing on the shattered but liberated planet of Wunderland, formerly a Kzin colony, were assembled as Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War (coll 2003), including the novel-length "One War for Wunderland". Colebatch also contributed most of the contents of Man-Kzin Wars XI (anth 2005) edited with Larry Niven, Paul Chafe and Matthew Joseph Harrington; and was an editor, with the same co-editors, of Man-Kzin Wars XII (anth 2009). His Time Machine Troopers (2011) is an energetic Sequel by Another Hand to H G Wells's The Time Machine (1895).
Nonfiction work includes critical writing on J R R Tolkien and other fantasy authors, in particular in Return of the Heroes: The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter and Social Conflict (circa 1990; exp 2003 ebook) as Hal G P Colebatch, a work more concerned with rebutting perceived left-wing criticism of its subjects than exploring their virtues. [JC/DRL]
Hal Gibson Pateshall Colebatch
born Perth, Western Australia: 7 October 1945
died Perth, Western Australia: 10 September 2019
works
series
Man-Kzin Wars
- Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War (New York: Baen Books, 2003) edited by Larry Niven [anth: but essentially coll: loosely tied to Tales of Known Space: comprising the Man-Kzin Wars subseries: hb/Steve Hickman]
- Treasure Planet (New York: Baen Books, 2011) with Jessica Q Fox [loosely tied to Tales of Known Space: comprising the Man-Kzin Wars subseries: pb/Sam Kennedy]
individual titles
- Time Machine Troopers (Subiaco East, Western Australia: Acashic, 2012) [pb/]
works as editor
- Man-Kzin Wars XI (New York: Baen Books, 2009) with Larry Niven, Matthew Joseph Harrington and Paul Chafe [anth: loosely tied to Tales of Known Space: comprising the Man-Kzin Wars subseries: hb/Steve Hickman]
- Man-Kzin Wars XII (New York: Baen Books, 2012) with Larry Niven, Matthew Joseph Harrington and Paul Chafe [anth: loosely tied to Tales of Known Space: comprising the Man-Kzin Wars subseries: hb/Steve Hickman]
nonfiction
- Return of the Heroes: The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter and Social Conflict (Perth, Western Australia: Australian Institute for Public Policy, circa 1990) [nonfiction: pb/]
- Return of the Heroes: The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter and Social Conflict (Christchurch, New Zealand: Cybereditions, 2003) [nonfiction: ebook: exp of the above: na/]
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