charles l harness

Hi! I've been trying to find the title and author for a science fiction novel I once read so that I can seek it out to reread. It was probably published between 1950-1970 (I'm thinking the '60s) and the story starts with a human pilot and a primate going on a FTL spaceflight, which ends up...

Charles Harness was an American SF writer whose first novel, The Paradox Men, I reviewed on this blog in November 2007. The Ring of Ritornel was his second novel, published fifteen years later in 1968. The story is set in the far-distant future when humanity has settled this galaxy and...

Charles Harness is little remembered now, but he was a significant writer at the end of SF's "Golden Age". When I checked on Wikipedia I was surprised to find that the last of his dozen novels appeared in 2002 (he died in 2005, at the age of 89) and that most of them were published in the 1980s...