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Hayden Howard
1925–2014
A quietly distinctive voice in mid-century science fiction, he wrote sharp, idea-driven stories and the novel The Eskimo Invasion, which drew both Hugo and Nebula attention. Before and alongside his writing life, he was also an educator and poet.
4 Audiobooks
The Luminous Blonde
by Hayden Howard
The Ethic of the Assassin
by Hayden Howard
The Un-Reconstructed Woman
by Hayden Howard
It
by Hayden Howard
About the author
John Hayden Howard was an American educator, poet, and science fiction writer who published under the name Hayden Howard. Born in Santa Barbara, California, in 1925, he studied at Santa Barbara High School, UCLA, and UC Santa Barbara, and later taught sixth grade at Jefferson Elementary School in Santa Barbara.
His science fiction career ran mainly from the early 1950s to the early 1970s. He published stories in magazines including Planet Stories, Galaxy Magazine, If, Worlds of If, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Reference sources note that he began with "It" in 1952 and produced a modest but memorable body of short fiction.
Howard is best remembered for his Esks sequence, a set of stories about an alien-altered northern people that were later gathered into his only novel, The Eskimo Invasion. That work brought him award recognition: the shorter version was nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and the novel itself was a Nebula finalist. He died in Santa Barbara in 2014.