HAY, George

   Working name of UK writer, editor and sf enthusiast Oswyn Robert Tregonwell Hay (1922-), who began publishing sf in the early 1950s with Flight of the "Hesper" (1951), Man, Woman and Android (1951), This Planet For Sale (1952) and, as by King LANG, Terra! (1953). Turning to editing, he produced Hell Hath Fury (anth 1963), a collection of stories from UNKNOWN; The Disappearing Future (anth 1970); Stopwatch (anth 1974), anoriginal anthology with stories by John BRUNNER, Ursula K. LE GUIN, Christopher PRIEST, A.E. VAN VOGT and others; The Edward De Bono ScienceFiction Collection (anth 1976), a selection of stories chosen to illustrate De Bono's theories of "lateral thinking"; The Necronomicon (anth 1978), a hoax assemblage of texts, dominated by Colin WILSON,arguing that a certain manuscript was passed obscurely from the Renaissance alchemist John Dee on down to H.P. LOVECRAFT, with The R'lyehText (anth 1993) projected to continue in the same vein; and the Pulsar sequence of original anthologies, Pulsar 1 (anth 1978) and Pulsar 2 (anth 1979), with stories from Robert HOLDSTOCK and Ian WATSON as well as olderfigures like van Vogt. The first volume of a long-meditated collection, The John W. Campbell Letters, Volume One (coll 1986 US) ed Perry A.CHAPDELAINE, Tony Chapdelaine and GH, was welcomed for the light it shed on numerous moments of sf history; a second volume is projected (John W. CAMPBELL Jr). From the end of the 1960s, GH worked to establish someformal organization to promote sf in the UK, and was instrumental in the establishment of the SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION, espousing in that role his continuing sense that sf provides an armamentarium of tools for coping with the future.

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