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/]
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