George Hay | |
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Born | Oswyn Robert Tregonwell Hay October 17, 1922 London |
Died | Sussex | October 3, 1997
Pen name | George Hay |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | British |
Genre | Science 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]
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