HARBINSON, W(illiam) Allen

(1941-)

   UK writer who has concentrated on the sf of PARANOIA, generally rooted in the notion that ALIENS are either investigating our planet or governing us, or both. The Projekt Saucer sequence - in order of internal chronology, Projekt Saucer \#1: Inception (1991 US), Phoenix: Projekt Saucer \#2 (1995) and Genesis (1980; vt Projekt Saucer \#2: Genesis 1991 US;vt Genesis: Projekt Saucer \#3 1995 UK) - connects UFOS and superscience in a global conspiracy. Otherworld (1984) collapses under the burden of attempting to make stylistic bricks out of material of this sort, but The Light of Eden (1987; vt Eden 1987 US) more successfully follows thepsychiatric examination of some humans who gradually make it clear that they are not in fact hallucinating an alien presence in the land. Dream Maker (1991) suggests that UFOs in need of energy from human minds aresucking holes in the ozone layer.

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