West, Alroy

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

Pseudonym of UK author Michael Roy Hastings (1907-1980), who was born Herbert Roy Higgins, but normally wrote adventure thrillers as by Michael Hastings, taking that name by deed poll in 1939; he also published some thrillers as by Gabriel Hythe. As West, he wrote at least one tale of some sf interest (and perhaps several); one of these, The Black Matador (1937), describes the effects of the Invention of a device capable of blocking all electronic Communications. [JC]

Michael Roy Hastings

born Birmingham, England: 19 October 1907

died 1980

works (very highly selected)

• Stratosphere Express (London: Wright and Brown, 1936) [hb/]
• The Black Matador (London: Wright and Brown, 1937) [hb/]
  • The Black Matador (Dublin, Ireland: Mellifont Press, 1939) [cut version of the above: binding unknown/]

links

• Bear Alley on Michael Hastings
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

previous versions of this entry

• Internet Archive