Phoenix (Projekt Saucer) [Import] [Paperback]

W.A. Harbinson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 568 pages
• Publisher: New English Library Ltd (February 16, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0450617513
• ISBN-13: 978-0450617515
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.4 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,112,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Even more intriguing than Inception, October 17, 2011

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Phoenix is the second novel in W. A. Harbinson's Projekt Saucer series (the first being Inception).
Set over a years long period, from 1947-1971, Phoenix continues where Inception left off, and shows how the series' main antagonist, the megalomaniacal genius John Wilson, has already set up his secret colony in Antarctica, where he designs more and more advanced and frightening technologies. Including such things as the hi-tech saucers and hideous human cyborgs, these technologies help make Wilson's Antarctic colony more powerful than any nation.
Nations like the US and Canada also build flying saucers, but theirs are nowhere near as advanced as what Wilson has, and indeed Wilson manages to make a deal with the US government and the governments of at least several other countries, promising to give them technological secrets in exchange for covering up the existence of his Antarctic colony and all flying saucers.

Some of the stories characters will be familiar to those who have read Inception. Most notable of these are Wilson (who, needless to say, will appear in all five books of the series) and former SS officer Ernst Stoll.
The story also introduces some new faces, such as the US Air Force officer turned UFO investigator Dwight Randall, and the sinister CIA agent Jack Fuller.

Phoenix is even more intriguing than its prequel Inception, and introduces such new concepts as cyborgs and psychic powers.
The story is also more frightening than Inception. Both the US government and Wilson are seen using sinister methods to silence those who know too much about the conspiracy, and you even get to see Wilson punishing the US government itself when it dares to step out of line.

Overall, like Inception, is the sort of story that can keep a reader hooked. I now look forward to reading Phoenix's sequel, Genesis.