Harry Paul Capon (18 December 1912, in

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– 24 November 1969)Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature - Volume 2
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(1887–1967), as an administrator in film and TV productions and was the head of the Film Department of

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(1963–1967). He began writing

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in the early 1950s with the Antigeos trilogy, dealing with the discovery of a

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, usually hidden behind the

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. He also wrote about

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, lost civilizations,

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and

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Series

The Other Side Trilogy # ''The Other Side of the Sun'' (1950) # ''The Other Half of the Planet'' (1952) # ''Down to Earth'' (1954)

Novels

* ''Battered Caravanserai'' (1942) * ''Brother Cain'' (1945) * ''Hosts of Midian'' (1946) * ''Dead Man's Chest'' (1947) * ''The Murder of Jacob Canansay'' (1947) * ''Fanfare for Shadows'' (1947) * ''O Clouds Unfold'' (1948) * ''Image of a Murder'' (1949) * ''Toby Scuffel'' (1949) * ''Threescore Years'' (1950) * ''Delay of Doom'' (1950) * ''No Time for Death'' (1951) * ''Death at Shinglestrand'' (aka ''Murder at Shinglestrand'') (1951) * ''Death on a Wet Sunday'' (1952) * ''In All Simplicity'' (1953) * ''The World at Bay'' (1953) * ''The Seventh Passenger'' (1953) * ''Malice Domestic'' (1954) * ''Phobos, the Robot Planet'' (aka ''Lost: A Moon'') (1955) * ''Thirty Days Hath September'' (1955) * ''The Wanderbolt'' (1955) * ''Margin of Terror'' (1955) * ''Into the Tenth Millennium'' (1956) * ''The Cave of Cornelius'' (aka ''The End of the Tunnel'') (1959) * ''Flight of Time'' (1960) * ''Warriors' Moon'' (1960) * ''The Kingdom of the Bulls'' (1961) * ''Amongst Those Missing'' (1959) * ''Lord of the Chariots'' (1962) * ''The Golden Cloak'' (1962) * ''Strangers on Forlorn'' (1969) * ''Roman Gold'' (1968) * ''The Final Refuge'' (1969)

Non-fiction

*''The Great Yarmouth Mystery'' (1965)

Selected filmography

* '' Road House'' (1934) * '' The Clairvoyant'' (1935) * ''

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'' (1935) * ''

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'' (1935) * ''

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'' (1946)

References

External links

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Authors : CAPON, PAUL : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia
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FantasticFiction: Paul Capon
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