Projekt Saucer Series

The 'Projekt Saucer' series consists of five volumes.

1: Inception 2: Phoenix 3: Genesis 4: Millennium 5: Ressurection

W.A.Harbinson started to uncover the nightmarish truth about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) in the research for his international bestseller, Genesis. The initial information came from a one-off, neo-Nazi newspaper, Brisant, which was obtained at a scientific exhibition held in the Hannover Messe Hall in May 1978. The basic thrust of the material was that UFOs did not come from an extraterrestrial source, but were in fact man-made, originating right here on Earth.

Harbinson felt that with the addition of further research the material could be the basis for an epic novel about the whole flying saucer phenomenon. Subsequently, he wrote a single-page synopsis, offering no outline of the plot or lead characters, but only the basic subject matter, and presented it to the late Alan Earney, then his editor at Corgi Books, London. Instantly excited by the material, Mr. Earney offered Harbinson the biggest advance of his career and the book was well and truly on its way.

Once the completed manuscript (over eight hundred pages) had been read by the editorial staff at Corgi Books, it was treated as a potential bestseller. Ecstatic trade-press reviews encouraged a major advertising campaign and the novel did indeed become a bestseller, with sales of over 200,000 copies in Britain alone. Published in the United States a year later, by Dell Books, New York (after being rejected by Bantam Books), the novel was widely reviewed and became a bestseller there as well.

In 1990 Harbinson's agent recommended that Genesis be used as the basis for a 4-book series of novels based on the same subject. A deal was struck with a British publisher, but the deal collapsed when the publishing house became part of a conglomerate and its whole fiction list was brutally cancelled. The American publisher, Dell Books, decided to proceed with the project, now entitled the 'Projekt Saucer' series, but insisted upon publishing Book 1: Inception, alongside the original bestseller, Genesis, thus producing a bewildering gap of approximately thirty years in the narrative. The two books therefore sold only moderately well and the rest of the series was dropped.

A few years later, in the early 1990s, the idea for the original 4-book series was revived by Nick Austin of Hodder & Stoughton for that company's New English Library imprint. This time, the author was allowed to complete the whole series and the first volume, Inception, was published successfully in 1991. The other three books in the series - Phoenix, a slightly amended Genesis, and Millennium - were published over the next five years and remained in print for the rest of the decade.

Though the fourth volume of 'Projekt Saucer' was intended to be the last, the success of the series encouraged NEL to commission a fifth (and definitely final) volume. Published in 1999 as a Hodder & Stoughton hardback, then as a NEL paperback, Projekt Saucer, Book 5: Resurrection picks up the story ten years later and is based on the cloned 'resurrection' of the icily cold, scientific genius, Wilson - a fictional character based on the legendary 'Wilson' of the UFO scare of 1895-1896.

With the destruction of Wilson's Antarctic base, the world has lived in peace for almost a decade. But in the tenth year, the saucers return, with vast motherships appearing over the White House in Washington D.C., over the Kremlin and over London, to once more dominate the world with their advanced technology and fearsome cyborgs. Humanity is brutally enslaved. George Orwell's 1984 becomes a grim reality as the cyborgs ruthlessly exploit their human captives.

Only two pockets of resistance remain: the original Antarctic base, where a few survivors prepare to send one young man, Michael Kimbrell, possessed of unique parapsychological abilities, back to the real 'world' to somehow defeat the cyborgs… And Randy 'Gumshoe' Fullbright, 'Speed Triber' and net-head, who will stop at nothing to avenge the humiliation of his race.

But…

Wilson is back!

Resurrection marks the completion of what is essentially a fully integrated novel of nearly 3,000 pages and approximately twenty years of work. Though the series has been highly successful in Great Britain, it has yet to find a publisher in the United States.