Hayden Howard
John Hayden Howard (born December 19, 1925 in Santa Barbara , California ; died October 23, 2014 there ) was an American science fiction writer. His only novel The Eskimo Invasion (1967) was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1968 . The underlying short story of the same title was nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula Award.
Life
Born in Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Hayden attended Santa Barbara High , studied at UCLA and UCSB, and taught at Jefferson Elementary School in Santa Barbara. He was married to Jillian Pearce Winslow, with whom he had four children.
In 1952 he published his first science fiction short story It in Planet Stories magazine . A total of 19 short stories were published by Howard. The novel The Eskimo invasion is a fix-up of seven short stories ( Death and Birth of the Angakok , The Eskimo invasion , Who Is Human? , Too Many Esks , The Modern Penitentiary , Our Man in Beijing , The Purpose of Life ), the previously published from 1965 to 1967 in the science fiction magazine Galaxy . It is about the Esks , a new species of people created by extraterrestrial influence from the Canadian Inuit (referred to as Eskimos in the novel ) that are capable of very rapid reproduction, which creates an overpopulation problem.
bibliography
- novel
- The Eskimo Invasion (1967)
- Short stories
- It (1952)
- The Luminous Blonde (1952)
- The Ethic of the Assassin (1953)
- The Un-Reconstructed Woman (1953)
- Murder Beneath the Polar Ice (1960)
- Gremmie's Reef (1964)
- Death and Birth of the Angakok (1965)
- The Eskimo Invasion (1966)
- Who is human? (1966)
- Too Many Esks (1966)
- The Modern Penitentiary (1966)
- Our Man in Beijing (1967)
- The Purpose of Life (1967)
- Beyond Words (1968)
- Kendy's World (1969)
- Tomorrow Cum Laude (1969)
- The Biggest Oil Disaster (1970)
- Oil-Mad Bug-Eyed Monsters (1970)
- To Grab Power (1971)
literature
- John Clute , David Langford : Howard, Hayden. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated August 11, 2018.
- Donald H. Tuck : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Advent, Chicago 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1 , p. 229.
Web links
- Hayden Howard in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Hayden Howard in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
- Works by and about Hayden Howard at Open Library
- Hayden Howard on LibraryThing (English)
- Hayden Howard on Goodreads.com (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Howard, Hayden |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Howard, John Hayden (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Barbara , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23 October 2014 |
| Place of death | Santa Barbara , California |