James P. Hogan was born in London in 1941, his father Irish and his
mother German. After studying general electrical and mechanical
engineering, he graduated as an electronics engineer specializing in
digital systems. Later he became a sales executive in the electronics
and computer industries with such companies as ITT, Honeywell, and
Digital Equipment Corporation, and eventually a Sales Training
Consultant with DEC's scientific computing group at Marlborough,
Massachusetts.
He began writing science fiction as a hobby in the mid 1970's, and
his works have been well received within the professional scientific
community as well as among regular science-fiction readers. In 1979 he
left DEC to become a full-time writer, and in 1988 moved to the Republic
of Ireland. Currently he maintains a residence in Pensacola and spends
part of each year in the U.S.
To date, he has published twenty-two novels: Inherit the Stars;
The Genesis Machine: The Gentle Giants of Ganymede; The Two Faces of
Tomorrow; Thrice Upon a Time; Giants' Star; Voyage from Yesteryear; Code
of the Lifemaker; The Proteus Operation, Endgame Enigma, The Mirror
Maze, The Infinity Gambit, Entoverse, The Multiplex Man,
Realtime Interrupt, Paths to Otherwhere, Bug Park, Star
Child, Outward Bound, Cradle of Saturn, and The Legend
that was Earth; Martian Knightlife; a nonfiction work on
Artificial Intelligence: Mind Matters; two mixed collections of
short fiction, nonfiction, and biographical anecdotes entitled Minds,
Machines & Evolution and Rockets, Redheads & Revolution; also,
some articles and short fiction. Further details of Hogan and his work
are available from his web site at http://www.jamesphogan.com
Hogan divides his time between Florida and the Republic of Ireland.