James Patrick Hogan
At the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005.
Born
James Patrick Hogan

(1941-06-27)27 June 1941
London, England
Died12 July 2010(2010-07-12) (aged 69)
Dromahaire, County Leitrim, Ireland

James Patrick Hogan (27 June 1941 – 12 July 2010) was a British science fiction author.[1]

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.[2]

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.[3]

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.[4]

During his later years, Hogan adopted a number of contrarian opinions. He was a proponent of Immanuel Velikovsky's version of catastrophism,[5] and of the Peter Duesberg hypothesis that AIDS is caused by pharmaceutical[6] use rather than HIV (see AIDS denialism).[7] He criticized the idea of the gradualism of evolution,[8][9] though he did not propose theistic creationism as an alternative. Hogan rejected the science on climate change and ozone depletion.[10]

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".[11] 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".[12]

Hogan died of heart failure at his home in Ireland on Monday, 12 July 2010, aged 69.[13]

Bibliography

Novels

Giants series

  1. Inherit the Stars (ISBN 978-0-345-28907-0) – May 1977.
  2. The Gentle Giants of Ganymede (ISBN 978-0-345-01933-2) – May 1978.
  3. Giants' Star (ISBN 978-0-345-32720-8) – July 1981.
  4. Entoverse (ISBN 978-0-517-09778-6) – October 1991.
  5. Mission to Minerva (ISBN 978-1-4165-2090-0) – May 2005.

Short stories

Short story collections and fixups

Omnibus editions

Compilations of novels in the "Giants series".

Non-fiction

References

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  1. ^ Holland, Steve (5 August 2010). "James P Hogan obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
  2. ^ Holland, Steve (5 August 2010). "James P Hogan obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  3. ^ "Biography". 23 January 2016. Archived from the original on 23 January 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  4. ^ Lane, Daryl; Vernon, William; Carson, David (December 1985). The Sound of wonder: interviews from "the Science fiction radio show". Oryx Press. ISBN 978-0-89774-233-7.
  5. ^ Hogan, James P. "The Case for Taking Velikovsky Seriously". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 18 June 2006.
  6. ^ Hogan, James P. (April 1999). Rockets, Redheads & Revolution. Baen Books. pp. 151–173. ISBN 0-671-57807-3."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' <of AZT> look just like AIDS."
  7. ^ Hogan, James P. "Bulletin Board: AIDS Skepticism". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 1 February 2007.
  8. ^ Hogan, James P. "The Rush to Embrace Darwinism". Retrieved 1 February 2007.
  9. ^ Hogan, James P. (April 1999). Rockets, Redheads & Revolution. Baen Books. pp. 175–192. ISBN 0-671-57807-3."My own belief, if it isn't obvious already, is that the final story will eventually come together along such catastrophist lines."
  10. ^ James P. Hogan (2004). Kicking the Sacred Cow. Riverdale, NY: Baen. ISBN 0-7434-8828-8.
  11. ^ Hogan, James P. (2006). "FREE-SPEECH HYPOCRISY (22 February 2006 commentary)". Archived from the original on 3 May 2006. Retrieved 3 May 2006.
  12. ^ Hogan, James P. (2010). "Here's To You, Ernst Zundel: A Lonely Voice of Courage". Archived from the original on 18 July 2010. Retrieved 15 July 2010.
  13. ^ Silver, Steven H. (12 July 2010). "Obituary: James P. Hogan". SF Site. Archived from the original on 16 May 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2010.

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