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.
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.
He published four short paperback novels in Cassell Australia's education series for reluctant readers: The Fallen Spaceman, Children of Atlantis, The Frozen Sky, and Return to Tomorrow.
His first adult novel, A World of Shadows was published in 1975 and in the same year he edited the Australian science fiction anthologies Beyond Tomorrow and The Altered I, with assistance from Rob Gerrand and Ursula K. Le Guin.
Four novels followed, including Displaced Person, adapted from his earlier short story, for which he received the 1980 Australian Children's Book of The Year Award.