author
George R. Hahn
1923–1991
A little-known but intriguing figure from early science fiction fandom, he wrote a small body of work that still catches readers’ attention for its pulp-era energy and imagination.
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Gangway for Homer
by George R. Hahn
About the author
George R. Hahn was an American science fiction writer and fan associated with New York fandom in the 1930s. Reference sources list him as born in 1923 and dying on February 23, 1991, and they also note that he wrote under the alternate name Cyril Mand.
He appears to have had a brief but memorable publishing career. Project Gutenberg identifies Gangway for Homer as a 1942 science fiction novella first published in Science Fiction Quarterly, and bibliographic records connect Hahn with only a small number of stories. That modest output is part of what makes him interesting today: he feels like one of those nearly lost pulp-era voices rediscovered by devoted genre readers.
Beyond his fiction, Hahn was active in fan circles. Fancyclopedia describes him as a 1930s New York fan who published the fanzine The Asteroid and was linked with other early fan projects. Even with only a handful of known stories, his name remains part of the wider history of science fiction’s formative magazine and fandom culture.