For example, the effectively limitless availability of energy that would result from the development of controlled nuclear fusion would make it unnecessary to limit access to energy resources.
Many of his novels have strong anarchist or libertarian themes, often promoting the idea that new technological advances render certain social conventions obsolete. Hogan's fiction also reflects anti-authoritarian social views. This discovery leads to a series of investigations, and as facts are discovered, theories on how the astronaut's body arrived on the Moon 50,000 years ago are elaborated, discarded, and replaced. This is very evident in the Giants series, which begins with the discovery of a 50,000 year-old human body on the Moon. If a theory does not match the facts, it is theory that should be discarded, not the facts. His philosophical view on how science should be done comes through in many of his novels theories should be formulated based on empirical research, not the other way around. In his earlier works he conveyed a sense of what science and scientists were about. Hogan's style of science fiction is usually hard science fiction. He quit DEC in 1979 and began writing full time, moving to Orlando, Florida, for a year where he met his third wife Jackie. He published his first novel, Inherit the Stars, in the same year to win an office bet.
In the 1970s he joined the Digital Equipment Corporation's Laboratory Data Processing Group and in 1977 moved to Boston, Massachusetts to run its sales training program. Hogan worked as a design engineer for several companies and eventually moved into sales in the 1960s, travelling around Europe as a sales engineer for Honeywell. He first married at the age of twenty, and he has had three other subsequent marriages and fathered six children. After leaving school at the age of sixteen, he worked various odd jobs until, after receiving a scholarship, he began a five-year program at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough covering the practical and theoretical sides of electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering. Hogan was was raised in the Portobello Road area on the west side of London. James Patrick Hogan was a British science fiction author.
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