Harper, Harry
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1880-1960) UK author with Claude Grahame-White of two sf juveniles: The Air-King's Treasure (1913) and The Invisible War-Plane: A Tale of Air Adventure in the Great Campaign (1915). In the latter an Airship is concealed by paint which (it is claimed) neither absorbs nor reflects light. Much later Harper wrote two solo works of semifictional Futures Studies, Winged World: The Coming of the Air Age (1946), where something like a planetary Pax Aeronautica is anticipated, and Dawn of the Space Age (1946). [PN/JC]
Harry Harper
born London: 1880
died Epsom, Surrey: 6 June 1960
works
- The Air-King's Treasure: A Story of Adventure with Airship and Aeroplane (London: Cassell, 1913) with Claude Grahame-White [hb/]
- The Invisible War-Plane: A Tale of Air Adventure in the Great Campaign (Glasgow, Scotland: Blackie and Son, 1915) with Claude Grahame-White [hb/]
nonfiction
- The Aeroplane: Past, Present, and Future (London: T Werner Laurie, 1911) with Claude Grahame-White [nonfiction: anth: hb/]
- Winged World: The Coming of the Air Age (London: John Gifford, 1946) [nonfiction: hb/uncredited]
- Dawn of the Space Age (London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1946) [nonfiction: hb/Bruce Gaffron]
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