King, Harold
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1945-2010) US author whose name has also been wrongly recorded as a joint pseudonym. King concentrates his focus on Technothrillers like Paradigm Red (1975; vt Red Alert 1977), where events – in this case the sabotage of a nuclear facility – hover at the edge of sf. World War III (1982), a Tie novelizing the Television drama, sets the beginning of World War Three in the very Near Future Alaska of 1984. Later works of some interest include The Hahnemann Sequela (1984), which is medical horror (see Horror in SF) and Shelkagari (1987), which involves a search for ancient treasure. [JC]
Harold Raymond King Jr
born Shreveport, Louisiana: 27 February 1945
died Shreveport, Louisiana: 15 October 2010
works (selected)
- Paradigm Red (Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1975) [hb/]
- Red Alert (New York: Pocket Books, 1977) [vt of the above: pb/]
- World War III (New York: Pocket Books, 1982) as by Brian Harris [tie to the Television drama: pb/]
- The Hahnemann Sequela (New York: Arbor House, 1984) [hb/Paul Bacon]
- Shelkagari (New York: Donald I Fine, 1987) [hb/]
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