Colin Harvey (11 November 1960 – 15 August 2011) was a British science fiction writer, editor, and reviewer.
[2][3] After working on a kibbutz and at a night shelter in the Midlands, Harvey was employed for two decades by Unilever.
[4][3][2] In 2007, he became a freelance writer, with his novels released by Swimming Kangaroo Books and Angry Robot.
[4][3] Harvey's novel Lightning Days was called a mix of "Raymond Feist's Riftwars crossed with Stephen Baxter's love of large timescales"[8] while Winter Song was described as "a novel about many things, not least the shape and form a culture will revert to when the hard times come, and to what extent both individual and communal freedoms are lost as a result.
"[9] The Guardian also praised Winter Song, saying in the novel "Harvey paints a grimly convincing portrait of a subsistence existence on the inhospitable world.