Hayford peirce biography

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1942-2020) US author, in Tahiti for the most active decades of his career, who also wrote crime thrillers; he began publishing sf with "Unlimited Warfare" in Analog for November 1974 and established a name for lightly written tales whose backgrounds were unusually well conceived.

"Mail Supremacy" (March 1975 Analog) begins a series of tales – much later assembled as Chap Foey Rider: Capitalist to the Stars (coll 2001) about an Anglo-Chinese businessman who brings Earth into the Galactic Postal Union. (Chap Foey Rider is an anagram of the author's name.) Further appearances in the same magazine, where he published over two dozen stories, include three 1990s collaborations with David M Alexander, the first being "Best of Breed" (mid-December 1994 Analog).

The MacNair of MacNair sequence – comprising Ben Bova's Discoveries: Napoleon Disentimed (1987; exp 1989) and Ein Paradies mit Tücken (trans Norbert