Harbinson, W Allen
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1941- ) UK author who has published at least twenty-five combat novels, none of them with fantastic content, as by Shaun Clarke, and who under his own name is best known for his exercises in the sf of Paranoia, most of this material based on the notion that our planet – either at the ultimate behest of Aliens or of a Pariah Elite of humans – is investigating or governing us, or both. The Projekt Saucer sequence – in order of internal chronology, Projekt Saucer #1: Inception (1991), Phoenix: Projekt Saucer #2 (1995), Genesis (1980; vt Projekt Saucer #2: Genesis 1991; vt Genesis: Projekt Saucer #3 1995), Projekt Saucer #4: Millennium (1995) and Projekt Saucer #5: Resurrection (1999) – connects UFOs and superscience in a global conspiracy involving a Scientist whose Projekt Saucer – the secret construction of a deadly flying saucer – almost created a Hitler Wins situation at the end of World War Two and who has since advanced his dreams by other means – including the creation of a Cyborg army – from the Antarctic. Otherworld (1984) collapses under the burden of attempting to make stylistic bricks out of material of this sort, but The Light of Eden (1987; vt Eden 1987) more successfully follows the psychiatric examination of some humans who gradually make it clear that they are not in fact hallucinating an alien presence in the land. Dream Maker (1991) suggests that UFOs in need of energy from human minds are sucking holes in the ozone layer. [JC]
William Allen Harbinson
born Belfast, Northern Ireland: 1941
works
series
Projekt Saucer
- Genesis (London: Corgi Books, 1980) [Projekt Saucer: pb/]
- Projekt Saucer #2: Genesis (New York: Dell Books, 1991) [vt of the above: Projekt Saucer: pb/]
- Projekt Saucer #3: Genesis (London: New English Library, 1995) [vt of the above: Projekt Saucer: pb/Mark Harrison]
- Projekt Saucer #1: Inception (New York: Dell Books, 1991) [Projekt Saucer: pb/]
- Projekt Saucer #2 Phoenix (London: New English Library, 1995) [Projekt Saucer: pb/Mark Harrison]
- Projekt Saucer #4: Millennium (London: New English Library, 1995) [Projekt Saucer: pb/Mark Harrison]
- Projekt Saucer #5: Resurrection (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1999) [Projekt Saucer: hb/Mark Harrison]
individual titles (selected)
- The Oil Heist (London: Corgi Books, 1978) [pb/]
- Revelation (London: Corgi Books, 1982) [pb/]
- Otherworld (London: Corgi Books, 1984) [pb/]
- The Light of Eden (London: Corgi Books, 1987) [pb/]
- The Lodestone (London: Sphere Books, 1989) as Allen Harbinson [pb/Tony Roberts]
- Dream Maker (London: Orbit, 1991) [pb/Tony Roberts]
- The Crystal Skulls (London: New English Library, 1997) [pb/Jim Burns]
nonfiction
- Projekt UFO: The Case for Man-Made Flying Saucers (London: Boxtree, 1995) [nonfiction: connected to the Projekt Saucer sequence (see above): hb/]
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