| Charles L. Harness |
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| 2005 deaths | |
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WRITING CAREER Harness' first story "Time Trap" ( 1948 ) is unusual for a first story in that it shows many of his recurring themes, among them Art , Time Travel and a hero undergoing a quasi- Transcendental experience. Several of Harness' works draw on his background as a lawyer. Among his best known stories are "The Rose", "An Ornament to his Profession", "The Alchemist", and "Stalemate in Time." Brian Aldiss mentioned Harness' ''Flight into Yesterday'' as a leading example of the "widescreen baroque" style in science fiction along with Alfred Bester 's '' The Demolished Man '' and '' The Stars My Destination ''. His story "The New Reality" has been called "SF's best Adam & Eve story" by Brian Stableford . His novel ''Redworld'' is one of the very few science fiction novels where all characters are aliens. Harness' ideas influenced numerous writers and he continued to write up to the year 2001 , gathering nominations for multiple Hugo and Nebula awards. In 2004 he was named Author Emeritus by SFWA , but he declined the banquet invitation due to being unable to travel and was honored by SFWA as an "Author of Distinction". His admirers find his relative obscurity extremely perplexing. AWARDS
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