George Hay (writer)

George Hay
BornOswyn Robert Tregonwell Hay
(1922-10-17)October 17, 1922
London
Died(1997-10-03)October 3, 1997
Sussex
Pen nameGeorge Hay
OccupationWriter
NationalityBritish
GenreScience fiction

Oswyn Robert Tregonwell Hay (17 October 1922 – 3 October 1997), better known by his working name George Hay, was a British science fiction author, editor, and credit. He is notable as a co-founder of the Science Fiction Foundation.[1] He was a proponent of science fiction being seen as "mankind's distant-early-warning system", as it is the only genre in which, facing the long-term problems of history, can be addressed the question of "What to do next?"[2] The primary role of science fiction, as Hay saw it, was "to educate us for that future".[3] David Langford described his mindset towards science fiction as "partly an invaluable educational tool, partly as a neglected natural resource from which ideas could be mined."[4]

  1. ^ "George Hay Lecture". SF Foundation Org.
  2. ^ Conrad, Joseph; Ford, Ford Madox (1999). The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. pp. vii–viii. ISBN 9780853235606.
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