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(1960-2011) UK author who began publishing work of genre interest in professional magazines with "On the Rock" for Albedo One #35 in 2008 (no month given), and published several further stories over the next three years. His first, rather tentative novels – Vengeance (2001), Lightning Days (2006), The Silk Palace (2007) and Blind Faith (2008) – range from Space Opera to Dystopian depictions of the Near Future. Winter Song (2009), typical of his later and more assured work, subjects its Scientist protagonist to extreme stress on a forgotten planet whose earlier inhabitants have suffered Devolution; Damage Time (2010), set in a New York suffering from the effects of Climate Change and corporate buyout, is constructed as a noir thriller whose protagonist is a specialist in retrieving the memories of murder victims. Harvey's unexpected death from a stroke at age 50 cut short a promising sf career. [JC]
born Redruth, Cornwall: 11 November 1960
died Bristol, England: 15 August 2011
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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
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