James P. Hogan (writer)

James Patrick Hogan (27 June 1941 – 12 July 2010) was a British science fiction author.

Biography

Hogan was born in London, England. He was raised in the Portobello Road area on the west side of London. After leaving school at the age of sixteen, he worked various odd jobs until, after receiving a scholarship, he began a five-year program at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough studying the practice and theory of electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering. He was married four times and fathered six children.

Hogan worked as a design engineer for several companies and eventually began working with sales during the 1960s, traveling around Europe as a sales engineer for Honeywell. During the 1970s he joined the Digital Equipment Corporation's Laboratory Data Processing Group and during 1977 relocated to Boston, Massachusetts to manage its sales training program. He published his first novel, '' Inherit The Stars'', during the same year to win an office bet.

He quit DEC during 1979 and began writing full-time, relocating to Orlando, Florida, for a year where he met his third wife Jackie. They then relocated to Sonora, California. Hogan died of heart failure at his home in Ireland on Monday, 12 July 2010, aged 69.

Controversy

During his later years, Hogan had contrarian and anti-authoritarian opinions. He was a proponent of Immanuel Velikovsky's version of catastrophism, and of the Peter Duesberg hypothesis that AIDS is caused by pharmaceutical"Well here's what happens to politically incorrect science when it gets in the way of a bandwagon being propelled by 'lots' of money- and to a scientist who ignores it and attempts simply to point at what the fact seem to be trying to say."... "The 'side effects' look just like AIDS." use rather than HIV (see AIDS denialism). He criticized the idea of the gradualism of evolution,"My own belief, if it isn't obvious already, is that the final story will eventually come together along such catastrophist lines." though he did not propose theistic creationism as an alternative. Hogan rejected the science on climate change and ozone depletion.

Hogan believed that the Holocaust did not happen in the manner described by mainstream historians, writing that he found the work of Arthur Butz and Mark Weber to be "more scholarly, scientific, and convincing than what the history written by the victors says". In March 2010, in an essay defending Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel, Hogan stated that the mainstream history of the Holocaust includes "claims that are wildly fantastic, mutually contradictory, and defy common sense and often physical possibility".

Bibliography

Novels

*''The Genesis Machine'' () – April 1978.
*''The Two Faces of Tomorrow'' () – June 1979.
*'' Thrice Upon a Time'' () – March 1980.
*''Voyage from Yesteryear'' () – July 1982 (also ( or ) (Paperbacks)).
*'' Code of the Lifemaker'' () – June 1983 (exploring ideas of a Clanking replicator robotic system).
*'' The Proteus Operation'' () – October 1985.
*''Endgame Enigma'' () – August 1987.
*''The Mirror Maze'' () – March 1989.
*''The Infinity Gambit'' () – March 1991.
*''The Multiplex Man'' () – December 1992.
*''The Immortality Option'' () – February 1995 (sequel to ''Code of the Lifemaker'').
*'' Realtime Interrupt'' () – March 1995.
*''Paths To Otherwhere'' () – February 1996.
*''Bug Park'' () – April 1997.
*''Outward Bound'' () – March 1999 ( A Jupiter Novel).
*''Cradle of Saturn'' () – June 1999.
*'' The Legend That Was Earth'' () – October 2000.
*''The Anguished Dawn'' () – June 2003 (sequel to "Cradle of Saturn").
*''Echoes of an Alien Sky'' () – February 2007.
*''Moon Flower'' () – April 2008.
*''Migration'' () – 18 May 2010.

Giants series

#'' Inherit the Stars'' () – May 1977.
#'' The Gentle Giants of Ganymede'' () – May 1978.
#'' Giants' Star'' () – July 1981.
#'' Entoverse'' () – October 1991.
#'' Mission to Minerva'' () – May 2005.

Short stories

*"Assassin" (May 1978, ''Stellar #4'', recollected in ''Minds, Machines & Evolution'').
*"Silver Shoes for a Princess" (October 1979, ''Destinies, October-December 1979'', collected in ''Minds, Machines & Evolution'' and reworked as the first section of ''Star Child'').
*"The Sword of Damocles" (May 1980, ''Stellar #5'', an adapted version appears in ''Catastrophes, Chaos & Convolutions'').
*"Neander-Tale" (December 1980, ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', collected in ''Minds, Machines & Evolution'').
*"Till Death Us Do Part" (January 1981, ''Stellar #6'', collected in ''Minds, Machines & Evolution'').
*"Making Light" (August 1981, ''Stellar #7'', collected in ''Minds, Machines & Evolution'').
*"Identity Crisis" (August 1981, ''Stellar #7'', collected in ''Rockets, Redheads & Revolution'').
*"The Pacifist" (June 1988, ''Minds, Machines & Evolution'').
*" Code of the Lifemaker: Prologue" (June 1988, ''Minds, Machines & Evolution'' (the first segment of the novel of the same name)).
*"Merry Gravmas" (June 1988, ''Minds, Machines & Evolution'').
*"Generation Gap" (June 1988, ''Minds, Machines & Evolution'').
*"Rules Within Rules" (June 1988, ''Minds, Machines & Evolution'').
*"The Absolutely Foolproof Alibi" (June 1988, ''Minds, Machines & Evolution'').
*"Down To Earth" (June 1988, ''Minds, Machines & Evolution'').
*"Leapfrog" (August 1989, ''Alternate Empires'', collected in ''Rockets, Redheads & Revolution'').
*"Last Ditch" (December 1992, '' Analog Science Fiction and Fact'', collected in ''Rockets, Redheads & Revolution'').
*"Out of Time" (December 1993, chapbook (), collected in ''Rockets, Redheads & Revolution'').
*"Zap Thy Neighbor" (September 1995, ''How to Save the World'', collected in ''Rockets, Redheads & Revolution'').
*"Madam Butterfly" (July 1997, ''Free Space'', collected in ''Rockets, Redheads & Revolution'').
*"Silver Gods from the Sky" (June 1998, ''Star Child'' (second part)).
*"Three Domes and a Tower" (June 1998, ''Star Child'' (third part)).
*"The Stillness Among the Stars" (June 1998, ''Star Child'' (fourth part)).
*"His Own Worst Enemy" (October 2001, ''Martian Knightlife'' (a Kieran Thane story)).
*"The Kahl of Tadzhikstan" (October 2001, ''Martian Knightlife'' (a Kieran Thane story)).
*"Convolution" (October 2001, ''Past Imperfect'', collected in ''Catastrophes, Chaos & Convolutions'').
*"Take Two" (December 2001, ''Silicon Dreams'', collected in ''Catastrophes, Chaos & Convolutions'').
*"Jailhouse Rock" (June 2004, ''Cosmic Tales: Adventures in Sol System'' (a Kieran Thane story)).
*"The Colonizing of Tharle" (July 2004, ''Visions of Liberty'').
*"The Tree of Dreams" (February 2005, ''Cosmic Tales II: Adventures in Far Futures'', collected in ''Catastrophes, Chaos & Convolutions'').
*"The Falcon" (June 2005, ''Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, Summer 2005'', collected in ''Catastrophes, Chaos & Convolutions'').
*"Decontamination Squad" (July 2005, ''Challenger #22'', collected in ''Catastrophes, Chaos & Convolutions'').
*"The Guardians" (December 2005, ''Catastrophes, Chaos & Convolutions'').
*"Murphy's War" (August 2007, ''Jim Baen's Universe'').
*"Escape" (February 2008, ''Transhuman'').

Short story collections and fixups

*''Minds, Machines & Evolution'' () – June 1988 (Bantam Spectra, republished by Baen, December 1999, short stories and essays).
*''Star Child'' () – June 1998 (expansion of "Silver Shoes for a Princess" to a four-story cycle: "Silver Shoes for a Princess", "Silver Gods from the Sky", "Three Domes and a Tower" and "The Stillness Among the Stars")
*''Rockets, Redheads & Revolution'' () – April 1999 (Baen, short stories and essays)
*''Martian Knightlife'' () – October 2001 (two novellas, "His Own Worst Enemy" and "The Kahl of Tadzhikstan", both featuring the Simon Templar-influenced Kieran Thane)
*''Catastrophes, Chaos & Convolutions'' (title as published; was to be ''Catastrophes, Creation & Convolutions'') () – December 2005 (Baen, short stories and essays)

Omnibus editions

Compilations of novels in the " Giants series".
*''The Minervan Experiment'' () – November 1982 (an omnibus edition of the first three books of the Giants series)
*''The Giants Novels: Inherit the Stars, The Gentle Giants of Ganymede, and Giants' Star'' () – March 1994 (republication of ''The Minervan Experiment'')
*''The Two Moons'' () - April 2006 (omnnibus of the first two Giants novels)
*''The Two Worlds'' () - September 2007 (omnibus of the third and fourth Giants novels)

Non-fiction

*''Mind Matters – Exploring the World of Artificial Intelligence'' () – March 1997
*''Kicking the Sacred Cow: Heresy and Impermissible Thoughts in Science'' () – July 2004

References

External links

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James P. Hogan
entry at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 4th edition
James P. Hogan
on SciFan
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