Ron Hall

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Ronald Hall was a fan and publisher from the UK active professionally from the 1940s. He attended the BSFA Convention, 1960 and Archie Mercer, in his con report for Cactus 5, noted only that he had "no connection with anybody else of the same name" presumably alluding to Sandra Hall and Tikwis Hall.

Many years later Hall gave some of his background in Relapse 17 (Spring 2010). At the age of 16 he was employed by the publisher Secker and Warburg where he met H. G. Wells and George Orwell, implying his date of birth was no later than 1930 and other references suggest it was a few years earlier. He started attending meeting at The Globe when he was 28. Dave Vendelmans writing in Alpha 5 recalled meeting him, the "voice who spoke perfect English", in 1954. An article, "Hall at Halloween", appeared in Eye 3 (December 1954) and an "R. Hall" is listed in Ron Bennett's Directory of Science Fiction Fandom for 1955.

Hall himself recalled his first Globe meeting where he met three men at the bar. Two of them were John Burke and Sam Youd and when Hall told the group that he had been particularly impressed by a writer called John Wyndham it seemed almost inevitable that the third turned out to be John Beynon Harris. In Launching Site 6 (June 1957), Vin¢ Clarke said that Hall was "the only person I know who can speak Russian". He was a member of Loncon, the 1957 Worldcon.

In later years he worked at the publishers Macmillan where he met Kingsley Amis, and was in charge of the science fiction list at Futura where he was usually known as "Andy" because there were too many Ronalds around. He had some involvement with their Andromeda anthology series (1976–8) edited by Peter Weston who didn't then know about Hall's "long and illustrious prior involvement with science fiction personalities".

Links

• "Who is Ron Hall?" in Relapse 17 (Spring 2010) at efanzines.com

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