James Patrick Hogan (27 June 1941 – 12 July 2010) was a British science fiction author. His major works include the Giants series of five novels published between 1977 and 2005.
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 later relocated to Sonora, California. During his later years, Hogan adopted a number of contrarian opinions. He was a proponent of Immanuel Velikovsky's version of catastrophism, arguing Velikovsky's critics were part of "an entrenched priesthood" who refused to seriously examine Velikovsky even when some of his predictions were validated (such as Venus's extremely high surface temperature which was contrary to prevailing scientific opinion in the 1950s); and as of 1999 Hogan accepted the Peter Duesberg hypothesis that AIDS is caused by pharmaceutical use rather than HIV (see AIDS denialism). He criticized the idea of the gradualism of evolution, though he did not propose theistic creationism as an alternative. Hogan was skeptical of scientific consensus about 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". Hogan died of heart failure at his home in Ireland on Monday, 12 July 2010, aged 69.
Bibliography
Novels The Genesis Machine (ISBN 978-0-7434-3597-0) – April 1978. The Two Faces of Tomorrow (ISBN 978-1-59307-563-7) – June 1979. Thrice Upon a Time (ISBN 978-0-345-32386-6) – March 1980. Voyage from Yesteryear (ISBN 978-0-671-57798-8) – July 1982 (also (ISBN 0-345-29472-6 or ISBN 0-671-57798-0) (Paperbacks)). Code of the Lifemaker (ISBN 978-0-345-30925-9) – June 1983 (exploring ideas of a Clanking replicator robotic system). The Proteus Operation (ISBN 978-0-553-05095-0) – October 1985. Endgame Enigma (ISBN 978-0-671-87796-5) – August 1987. The Mirror Maze (ISBN 978-0-553-27762-3) – March 1989. The Infinity Gambit (ISBN 978-0-553-28918-3) – March 1991. The Multiplex Man (ISBN 978-0-553-56363-4) – December 1992. The Immortality Option (ISBN 978-0-345-37915-3) – February 1995 (sequel to Code of the Lifemaker). Realtime Interrupt (ISBN 978-0-671-57884-8) – March 1995. Paths To Otherwhere (ISBN 978-0-671-87710-1) – February 1996. Bug Park (ISBN 978-0-671-87773-6) – April 1997. Outward Bound (ISBN 978-0-8125-7191-2) – March 1999 (A Jupiter Novel). Cradle of Saturn (ISBN 978-0-671-57866-4) – June 1999. The Legend That Was Earth (ISBN 978-0-671-31840-6) – October 2000. The Anguished Dawn (ISBN 978-0-7434-9876-0) – June 2003 (sequel to "Cradle of Saturn"). Echoes of an Alien Sky (ISBN 978-1-4165-2108-2) – February 2007. Moon Flower (ISBN 978-1-4165-5534-6) – April 2008. Migration (ISBN 978-1-4391-3352-1) – 18 May 2010.
Giants series Inherit the Stars (ISBN 978-0-345-28907-0) – May 1977. The Gentle Giants of Ganymede (ISBN 978-0-345-01933-2) – May 1978. Giants' Star (ISBN 978-0-345-32720-8) – July 1981. Entoverse (ISBN 978-0-517-09778-6) – October 1991. Mission to Minerva (ISBN 978-1-4165-2090-0) – May 2005.
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