Lee Harding

Lee John Harding (19 February 1937 – 19 April 2023) was an Australian freelance photographer, who became a writer of science fiction novels and short stories.

Career Harding was born on 19 February 1937, in Colac, Victoria. He was a fan of science fiction and was among the founding members of the Melbourne Science Fiction Club.

Harding's first published work appeared in the Sydney photographic magazine Photo Digest in 1958: a photographic coverage of the filming of On the Beach, a 1959 adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel On the Beach, in Melbourne and Frankston locations, accompanied by a personal written record of his adventures. This led to a request for a regular monthly column for the magazine on 35mm photography, and a subsequent photographic and written coverage of the filming of The Sundowners in Cooma.

In 1961 Harding's first published short story, Displaced Person, was published in Science Fantasy. In 1997, he published the non-science fiction novel Heartsease. Harding has also written short stories using the pseudonym, Harold G Nye.

Awards 1970 – Ditmar Award: Best Australian Science Fiction for Dancing Gerontius 1972 – Ditmar Award: Best Australian Fiction for Fallen Spaceman 1980 – Winner of the Australian Children's Book of the Year Award for Displaced Person The Second Pacific Book of Science Fiction edited by John Baxter "Fallen Spaceman" 1971 If, May/June 1971 Expanded to novel length, with same title

Others "Soul Survivors" in the collection: New Writings in SF 17, edited by John Carnell (Dobson, 1970)

Edited Beyond Tomorrow : an anthology of modern science fiction (Wren, 1975) The Altered I : an encounter with science fiction / by Ursula K. Le Guin and others (Norstrilia Press, 1976) Rooms of Paradise (Quartet Books, 1978)