Hayden Howard

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John Hayden Howard
Born(1925-12-19)December 19, 1925
Santa Barbara, California, USA
DiedOctober 23, 2014(2014-10-23) (aged 88)
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Pen nameHayden Howard
Occupation
  • Educator
  • poet
  • author
Genre science fiction

John Hayden Howard (1925-2014) was an American educator, poet and science fiction author. He used the pen name Hayden Howard. [1] [2]

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Biography

Howard was born in Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, California, the son of John Macdougall Howard and Mary Kathryn (Hayden) Howard. He was educated at Santa Barbara High School, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He taught sixth grade at Jefferson Elementary School in Santa Barbara until it closed in 1972.

Howard died in Santa Barbara, survived by his wife Jillian Pearce Winslow, four children, six grandchildren, a sister and two nephews. [2] [3]

Literary career

In a career extending from 1952 to 1971, Howard wrote a scattering of short stories for various science fiction magazines, his work appearing in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Galaxy Magazine, If, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Planet Stories, and Worlds of If. His most extended series comprises seven tales exploring overpopulation, featuring "a group of indigenous Canadian Inuit (referred to as Eskimos, a term not then deprecated) ... transformed by an Alien presence into an apparently benign, fast-breeding new species called Esks, which duly become an Esk Problem." These were afterwards combined into his only novel, The Eskimo Invasion. [3]

Bibliography

Esks series

Kendy series

Other short fiction

Awards

The short story "The Eskimo Invasion" was nominated for the 1967 Hugo Award for Best Novelette and the 1967 Nebula Award for Best Novelette; the novel The Eskimo Invasion was nominated for the 1968 Nebula Award for Best Novel. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Hayden Howard at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. 1 2 "John Hayden "Jack" Howard." Obituary on legacy.com.
  3. 1 2 Clute, John, and Langford, David. "Howard, Hayden." The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, edited by John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls and Graham Sleight. London: Gollancz, updated 11 August 2018.