- Zach Hughes at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Fantastic Fiction Home
- Interview with Hugh and Elizabeth Zachary, March 27, 1998, transcription of an oral history interview from UNCW Archives and Special Collections Online Database
Hugh Zachary (January 12, 1928 – September 5, 2016)[1][2] was an American novelist who has written science fiction novels under the pseudonyms Zach Hughes and Evan Innes (the latter for the America 2040 series). His other pseudonyms include Peter Kanto and Pablo Kane.[2] He described himself as "the most published, underpaid, and most unknown writer in the U.S."[3]
Some of his novels appear to be set in a shared universe, one where Earth experiences a nuclear apocalypse shortly after launching a colonization fleet to settle new worlds among the stars.[1]
Zachary was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma on January 12, 1928. He received his education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[4] He served in the U.S. Army and worked in broadcast journalism in Florida.[4][5][6] Zachary started writing as a full-time occupation along with his wife Elizabeth in 1963.[6][4]
Near all of Hugh Zachary's science fiction stories were written under the pseudonym Zach Hughes. The exceptions have the name used listed after the publication date. For example, The World where Sex was Born was written using the pseudonym, Peter Kanto.
NOTE: The Thunderworld series shares a common history, stellar cartography, and sometimes characters.
The America 2040 series was written using the pseudonym Evan Innes.