Harry Paul Capon (18 December 1912, in
Kenton, Suffolk – 24 November 1969)[1] was a British author who wrote fiction in various genres. He also worked as an editor in three films for
Maurice Elvey (1887–1967), as an administrator in film and TV productions and was the head of the Film Department of
Independent Television News (1963–1967). He began writing
science fiction in the early 1950s with the Antigeos trilogy, dealing with the discovery of a
Counter-Earth, usually hidden behind the
Sun. He also wrote about
utopias,
time travel,
lost civilizations,
alien invasion and
Martians.
Series
The Other Side Trilogy
The Other Side of the Sun (1950)
The Other Half of the Planet (1952)
Down to Earth (1954)
Novels
Battered Caravanserai (1942)
Brother Cain (1945)
Hosts of Midian (1946)
Dead Man's Chest (1947)
The Murder of Jacob Canansay (1947)
Fanfare for Shadows (1947)
O Clouds Unfold (1948)
Image of a Murder (1949)
Toby Scuffel (1949)
Threescore Years (1950)
Delay of Doom (1950)
No Time for Death (1951)
Death at Shinglestrand (aka Murder at Shinglestrand) (1951)
Death on a Wet Sunday (1952)
In All Simplicity (1953)
The World at Bay (1953)
The Seventh Passenger (1953)
Malice Domestic (1954)
Phobos, the Robot Planet (aka Lost: A Moon) (1955)
Thirty Days Hath September (1955)
The Wanderbolt (1955)
Margin of Terror (1955)
Into the Tenth Millennium (1956)
The Cave of Cornelius (aka The End of the Tunnel) (1959)