UK publishing firm which from 1936 through 1984, though mainly in the 1970s, published more than 450 sf novels, in hardbound editions, primarily for the library market. (In 1990 a few US sf titles were reprinted, but no originals.) A large majority of titles originating with the firm were uniform in length (192 pages) and routine in substance, most being Space Operas. In its early years Hale published speculative fiction from authors like S Fowler Wright and Wyndham Lewis, and in the 1970s many established foreign writers – including Poul Anderson, A Bertram Chandler, Hal Clement, Gordon R Dickson, Ron Goulart, Harry Harrison, Keith Laumer, Frank Belknap Long, Andre Norton, Robert Silverberg and Kate Wilhelm – released titles to the UK market through the house; but from the middle of that decade Hale published mostly books signed by names otherwise unknown to the sf world. Some of these were young authors – e.g., Adrian Cole and David S Garnett – who would soon move on to more ambitious projects, and some – e.g., the actor Michael Elder – were authors who published primarily with Hale but who were clearly real individuals; but many were pseudonyms, some of which have been identified and can be found below so designated. Almost certainly several remaining names – some of those below without birth-dates being reasonable suspects – are also pseudonymous. Below we list authors whose names are solely or primarily identified with the Hale imprint, and, where appropriate – that is, where the author has no separate entry in this encyclopedia – their works as well. [JC/DRL]
see also: George Borodin; Colin Cooper; Terry Greenhough; Lee Harding; Philip E High; John Lymington; Robert Ray.
Robert Hale authors
- Roy Ainsworthy > Lauran Bosworth Paine.
- Adrienne Anderson.
- Walter Bacon (? - ):
- Bee Baldwin.
- Jo Bannister (1951- ):
- Mark Bannon > Paul Conrad.
- Alan Barclay.
- D A Barker (Donald Andrew Barker, 1947- ):
- G J Barrett, whose pseudonyms include Edward Leighton, Dennis Summers and James Wallace.
- Roger (Alban) Beaumont (1935- ):
- John Bedford – pseudonym of David Wiltshire; see below:
- Peter Bentley – pseudonym of Alan Moon:
- Leigh Beresford – pseudonym of John Leigh Everett (circa 1941- ):
- Fenton Brockley > Donald S Rowland.
- Eric Burgess.
- Roger Carlton > Donald S Rowland.
- Mark Carrel > Lauran Bosworth Paine.
- R M H Carter:
- Garet Chalmers, pseudonym of Margaret Simpson Chalmers (born in Glasgow, 1 April 1939):
- Jonathan Chance > John Lymington.
- David Clements:
- Paul Conrad, who writes also under his real name, Albert King, and as Mark Bannon, Floyd Gibson, Scott Howell, Christopher King and Paul Muller.
- Paul Corey.
- James Corley.
- George Corston.
- S H Courtier (Sidney Hobson Courtier, 1904-1974):
- N J Cullingworth.
- Jules N Dagnol.
- Leonard Daventry.
- Robert F Davis.
- Cyril Donson.
- Iain Douglas.
- Alfred Dyer.
- Michael Elder.
- James England.
- R Snowden Ficks > Roger Beaumont (above).
- Arthur Friggens, collaborator of Eric Burgess.
- Donald J Garden.
- Nicholas Garlick.
- Graham Garner > Donald S Rowland.
- T S J Gibbard – pseudonym of Michael Vinter; see below:
- Floyd Gibson > Paul Conrad.
- John Gilchrist.
- David Graham.
- J M Graham.
- Anthony Grant.
- Hilary Green.
- Harry J Greenwald:
- Brian Griffin.
- Peter J Grove.
- J W Groves.
- Richard Haigh.
- Norman Hall (1904- ):
- Kenneth Harker.
- William C Heine.
- Ernest Hill.
- Gordon T Horton.
- Troy Howard > Lauran Bosworth Paine.
- Scott Howell > Paul Conrad.
- Mark Jales.
- R Alan James:
- Norman Jensen.
- Neville Kea.
- Albert King > Paul Conrad.
- Christopher King > Paul Conrad.
- Edward Leighton > G J Barrett.
- John Light.
- Richard Lindsay:
- Roger Lovin:
- Apostle
(London: Robert Hale, 1980) [hb/]
- Ronald A McQueen.
- Michael F Maikowski:
- Sue Mallinson:
- David Mariner.
- Dave Morgan.
- Paul Muller > Paul Conrad.
- Helen C Nisbet.
- Hugh A Nisbet.
- John October.
- Cunliffe Owen.
- Lauran Paine, whose pseudonyms include Roy Ainsworthy, Mark Carrel and Troy Howard.
- John Paget > John Aiken.
- John Paton.
- Colin D Peel.
- David G Penny.
- W D Pereira.
- Roger Perry.
- Audrey Peyton.
- Alex Random > Donald S Rowland.
- L P Reeves.
- Jack Rhys.
- Julia Riding.
- J R (Janet Russell) Robertson (? - ):
- Brian Rolls:
- Raymond J Ross.
- Donald S (Sydney) Rowland, whose pseudonyms include Fenton Brockley, Roger Carlton, Graham Garner, Alex Random, Roland Starr, Mark Suffling.
- James Ryder – pseudonym of James Pattinson (1915-2009); born 15 December 1915, died 18 October 2009:
- Ras Ryman – pseudonym of James D Brown:
- J W Schutz.
- William T Silent.
- D N Sims (Denise Natalie Sims, 1940- ):
- A C Smith (Anthony Corby Smith, 1925- ):
- Walter J (James) Smith (1917- ):
- Roland Starr > Donald S Rowland.
- Mark Suffling > Donald S Rowland.
- Dennis Summers > G J Barrett.
- (Robert) Nevil Tronchin-James (1916-1990):
- James B (Benjamin) Tucker (1922- ):
- Michael Vinter (1927- ); also wrote for Hale as T S J Gibbard, as above:
- Walter Walkham – pseudonym of James Harvey Trevithick Ivory (1921- ):
- James Wallace > G J Barrett.
- Chad Warren:
- William Thomas Webb (1918- ):
- Philip Welby:
- Martyn Wessex – pseudonym of D F Little:
- Ronald Wilcox:
- Eric C Williams.
- T Owen Williams:
- Robert Hendrie Wilson:
- David Wiltshire (1935- ):
- Chris L Wolf (?1951- ):
- Fire in the Sky (London: Robert Hale, 1981) with Michael F Maikowski (1952- )
- J A Wood:
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