author
Hayden Howard
1925–2014
An educator, poet, and science fiction writer, he built a compact but memorable body of work that moved easily between sharp satire and big speculative ideas. He is best known for The Eskimo Invasion, a story unusual enough to earn both Hugo and Nebula recognition as it grew from novelette to novel.
5 Audiobooks
Murder Beneath the Polar Ice
by Hayden Howard
The Ethic of the Assassin
by Hayden Howard
The Luminous Blonde
by Hayden Howard
The Un-Reconstructed Woman
by Hayden Howard
It
by Hayden Howard
About the author
Born John Hayden Howard in Santa Barbara, California, he wrote under the pen name Hayden Howard. Reliable sources describe him as an American educator, poet, and science fiction author, and note that he was born in 1925 and died in 2014.
His science fiction career began with the story It in 1952, and he continued publishing through the early 1970s. Reference sources credit him with a relatively small but well-remembered output, especially in magazine science fiction, where his work appeared during the great mid-century pulp and digest era.
His best-known work is The Eskimo Invasion. It was nominated in its shorter form for major awards and later expanded into a novel, giving him a lasting place in genre history. Outside writing, his obituary notes that he attended schools in California and taught sixth grade in Santa Barbara, suggesting a life grounded as much in teaching and poetry as in speculative fiction.