BARCLAY, Alan

   Pseudonym of UK writer and civil engineer George B.Tait (1910-), who wrote some stories for Science Fantasy, beginning with "Enemy in their Midst" in 1952, and the Jacko series - mostly for NW, beginning with "Only an Echo" (1954) and ending with "The Thing in Common" (1956). Parts of this series became his sf novel Of Earth and Fire (fixup 1974), which pits Earth's space service against ALIEN intruders. He wrote his novels exclusively for ROBERT HALE LIMITED. Other works: The City and the Desert (1976); No Magic Carpet (1976); The Cruel Years of Winter (1978); The Guardian at Sunset (dated 1979 but 1980).