author
George R. Hahn
1923–1991
An early science-fiction fan and occasional pulp writer, he left behind a small but curious body of work that still turns up in vintage SF circles. His best-known stories appeared in the late 1930s and early 1940s, including the novella Gangway for Homer.
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Gangway for Homer
by George R. Hahn
About the author
George R. Hahn was an American science-fiction fan and writer associated with New York fandom in the 1930s. Sources on his life are thin, but fan-history references describe him as a very young participant in early fan publishing who used the pen name Whimsy and was connected with the fanzine The Asteroid.
As a fiction writer, he published only a handful of stories. These include The Fifth Candle, credited with Richard Levin under the shared pseudonym Cyril Mand, and the science-fiction novella Gangway for Homer, which later entered the public domain and was released through Project Gutenberg.
The dates often given for him are 1923–1991, though at least one memorial record lists a July 28, 1922 birth and a February 23, 1991 death in London. Because the surviving biographical record appears fragmentary, the safest picture is of a little-known but genuine pulp-era contributor whose work still attracts readers interested in early fandom and vintage speculative fiction.