Otherworld [Import] [Paperback]

W. A. Harbinson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 511 pages
• Publisher: McArthur & Company / Not Applicable; New Ed edition (1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0340695463
• ISBN-13: 978-0340695463
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,327,580 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

W.A.HARBINSON was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland,in 1941. Leaving school at 14, he became first, in Belfast, an apprentice textile engineer, then, in Liverpool, England, an apprentice plumber and gas fitter. At 19, he emigrated to Australia and enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), serving as a medical clerk in Australia, Thailand, and Malaysia. Returning to London six years later, he became the Chief Associate Editor of a variety of men's magazines and then began his long career as a freelance writer.

His published works include a Number One US bestselling biography, THE ILLUSTRATED ELVIS (1975); two bestselling novels, GENESIS (1980) and REVELATION (1982); and a British bestseller biography, EVITA: SAINT OR SINNER? (1996). He is the author of the epic 'Projekt Saucer' series of novels, which remained in print for most of the 1990s. The five novels in the series are: INCEPTION, PHOENIX (nominated for the Arthur C.Clarke Award, 1995), GENESIS, MILLENNIUM, and RESURRECTION.

Harbinson's early Australian novel, THE RUNNING MAN (1967) was turned into a feature film, THE CITY'S EDGE. He has also written for radio and adapted various film scripts into book form.

Harbinson's autobiographical works include THE WRITING GAME: RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OCCASIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR, and ALL AT SEA ON THE GHOST SHIP.

Most of Harbinson's works are now available both as POD books and Kindle ebooks and can be purchased from Amazon and other book-selling Web sites.

W.A.Harbinson has two grown-up children, Shaun and Tanya. Now divorced, he lives alone in a townhouse in West Cork, Ireland. He continues to write.

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not Free SF Reader, December 18, 2007

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This review is from: Otherworld (Mass Market Paperback)

Jungle craziness.

An American journalist gets involved in strange goings on with a trible down on the Amazon. Or, bad things, man. Steamy things man. Plus a few snakes. While an ok atmosphere for the book, the story isn't really very interesting at all.

2.5 out of 5n

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting story, but the details were a little off..., September 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Otherworld (Mass Market Paperback)

This was a book written by an author with a particularly vivid imagination. The imagery involved was extremely well written and described. The plot, while somewhat predictable, overall, had some nice twists and turns, plus a few bone-jolting surprises. The part that I have to gripe about though is that the descriptions of the snakes are designed to play on the fears of those who are ignorant of them. Several times, snakes are referred to as being "slimy", when they rarely are. Certainly, they are not when they have been wandering around in a hut, as the first one was. It also throws hideous (but inaccurate) descriptions of local spiders at the reader. While the rest of the book I would call quite good, these hackneyed images drag it down a couple of notches.