George Hay

(October 17, 1922 – October 3, 1997)

George Hay was the working name of UK writer, editor, fan and general SF enthusiast Oswyn Robert Tregonwell Hay who was born Oswyn Robert Cohn. He attended the Festivention in 1951 and was on the committee for SCI-CON 70. The annual George Hay Memorial Lecture on a scientific topic was created in his honour and is given at Eastercon. Dave Langford said, 'What George did best was to promote sf as he saw it: partly as an invaluable educational tool, partly as a neglected natural resource from which ideas could be mined' (Odyssey #2, 1998).

Hay helped establish the Science Fiction Foundation in 1972 and was one of the editors for its journal, Foundation]], for its first six issues (1972–4). He served as an International Science Policy Foundation judge for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987–9, its first three years. In 1992 he organised Hasticon.

He began publishing SF in the early 1950s with Flight of the "Hesper" (1951), Man, Woman – and Android (1951), and This Planet for Sale (1952). In 1963 he edited the anthology Hell Hath Fury, which contained seven stories from Unknown magazine. He was one of the writers who used the King Lang pseudonym.

Fanzines and Apazines:

• Door Into George [1984]
• Realtime [1989]

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1986 – Best Non-Fiction Book Hugo nominee
• George Hay Memorial Lecture

Links

• Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• George Hay in Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Dave Langdford on George Hay, Odyssey #2 (1998) at ansible.uk

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Person

1922—1997

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