Gateway Essentials: Douglas Hill

Douglas Arthur Hill was a Canadian science fiction author, editor and reviewer. Born in Brandon, Manitoba, in 1935, the son of a railroad engineer, he was raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He studied English at the University of Saskatchewan, where he earned an Honours BA in 1957, and at the University of Toronto. Hill moved to Britain with his wife, Gail Robinson, in 1959, where he worked as a freelance writer and editor for Aldus Books. From 1967 to 1968 he served as Assistant Editor of the controversial New Worlds science fiction magazine under Michael Moorcock.

Most of Hill’s output fell into the area of of Children’s SF and what we might now call Young Adult, and we have selected the best of these as his Gateway Essentials:

Galactic Warlord (1979)	Deathwing over Venyaa (1980)

You can find these and more of Douglas Hill’s work via his Author page on the Gateway website, and read about him in his entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.