George Hay (writer)
George Hay (actually Oswyn Robert Tregonwell Hay, born Oswyn Robert Cohn on October 17, 1922 in London ; died on October 3, 1997 in Hastings , East Sussex ) was a British science fiction writer and editor. He was the founder of the Science Fiction Foundation .
Life
Hay wrote a number of science fiction novels in the early 1950s, but these remained without echo. He is best known as an anthologist, a busy project maker in the SF fandom , as the initiator and founder of the Science Fiction Foundation and as the editor of its journal Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction from 1972 to 1974.
His notable projects included the publication of The Necronomicon (1978), supposedly the deciphered text of HP Lovecraft's fictional occult work Necronomicon , including a report written by the young David Langford on the computer deciphering of the Elizabethan records (very innovative at the time) Occultist John Dee .
Hay also worked as the editor of John W. Campbell's letters in two volumes.
In his honor, the George Hay Memorial Lecture will be held at Eastercon , a lecture on a scientific topic, usually by a prominent scientist.
bibliography
- Novels
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This Planet For Sale (1951)
- English: Planet of Tears. Hönne Utopia-Spitzenklasse # 12, 1958. Also called: Planet of Tears. Moewig (Terra # 71), 1959.
- Man, Woman and Android (1951)
- Flight of the "Hesper" (1952)
- Terra! (1952, as King Lang)
- Anthologies
- Hell Hath Fury (1963, Collection of Stories from Unknown )
- The Disappearing Future: A Symposium of Speculation (1970)
- Stopwatch (1974)
- The Edward De Bono Science Fiction Collection (1976)
- The Necronomicon: The Book of Dead Names (1978)
- Pulsar 1 (1978)
- Pulsar 2 (1979)
- Non-fiction
- Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction, Numbers 1-8 (1978, with Peter Nicholls, Charles Barren, and Kenneth Bulmer)
- The John W. Campbell Letters, Volume 1 (1985, with Tony Chapdelaine and Perry A. Chapdelaine)
- The John W. Campbell Letters with Isaac Asimov and AE van Vogt, Volume 2 (1993, with Tony Chapdelaine and Perry A. Chapdelaine)
- Short stories
- Over and Out (1965)
- Synopsis (1966)
- The End of the ANTHOLOGY (1972, as Ayre Hogge)
- Letter from Dr Stanislaus Hinterstoisser (1978)
- A Serious Call (1979)
- All That Flies (1980)
- An Error of Long Standing (1985)
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 194 f.
- Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 532.
- Malcolm Edwards, John Clute , David Langford : Hay, George. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.
- Donald H. Tuck : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Advent, Chicago 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1 , p. 211.
Web links
- Literature by and about George Hay in the catalog of the German National Library
- George Hay in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- George Hay in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
- Works by and about George Hay at Open Library
- George Hay in Fantastic Fiction (English)
- George Hay in Fancyclopedia 3 (English)
- Obituary by David Langford in the Critical Mass column in Odyssey 2 , 1998
Individual evidence
- ^ SFF: Events and Awards: Hay Lecture , accessed March 20, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hay, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hay, Oswyn Robert Tregonwell (real name); Cohn, Oswyn Robert (maiden name); Hogge, Ayre (pseudonym); Lang, King (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British science fiction writer and editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 3, 1997 |
| Place of death | Hastings , East Sussex |