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Hayford Peirce (born January 7, 1942 in Bangor, Maine) is an American writer of science fiction, mysteries, and spy thrillers. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and received his BA from Harvard College. He has written numerous short stories for the science-fiction magazines ''Analog'', ''Galaxy'', and ''Omni'', as well as mystery shorts for ''Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine'' and ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine''. Most of his stories are light-hearted and satiric in tone, with elements of black humor and occasional surprising grimness. He has also written a number of science-fiction and mystery novels, some of which were published by Tor, and the others by Wildside Press. They have been translated into several languages. Typical of them are ''Napoleon Disentimed'' and ''Blood on the Hibiscus''. His one spy thriller, written in London in 1968 at the height of the fictional spy mania, is ''The Bel Air Blitz''. Many of Peirce's short stories concern on-going protagonists. In the science-fiction field there have been collections of his ''Chap Foey Rider, Capitalist to the Stars'' stories, of his ''Jonathan White, Stockbroker in Orbit'' stories, and of his ''Sam Fearon, Time Scanner'' stories. In the mystery field, he has had two collections about protagonists living in Tahiti, ''Commissaire Tama'', a chief of police, and ''Joe Caneili'', a private eye. Peirce has also collaborated with David M. Alexander on stories that have appeared in ''Analog''. ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' says "he established a name for lightly written tales whose backgrounds were unusually well conceived.... ''Napoleon Disentimed'', his first novel, is an attractive example of what might be called the ALTERNATIVE WORLD hijinks tale... HP's titles are notably inventive....".〔''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'', edited by John Clute & Peter Nicholls〕 == Biography == Peirce was raised in a family of wealthy timber-land owners who were both cultivated and eccentric. His father, a recognized authority on Byzantine art, wrote several books on the subject in French. His mother was a would-be playwright and summer playhouse owner. His uncle, Waldo Peirce, was a prominent American painter and bohemian character. Peirce attended, with no great distinction, Exeter, Stanford, and Harvard. At age 22 he married a Tahitian girl and moved to Tahiti, where he lived for the next 23 years. At various times he was a part owner, and sometimes accountant, for a mother-of-pearl button factory, a garden center, a one-hour laundry, and an import business. Peirce began writing in 1974, with the sale of a science-fiction short story to ''Analog''.〔http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/peirce_hayford〕 "Unlimited Warfare" is typical of the fairly short, somewhat sardonic, black-humored stories that he wrote for a number of years. It takes an unlikely premise—England wages an undeclared war upon France by destroying its vineyards, while France retaliates and ultimately wins the war by destroying the world's tea supply—and treats it with an apparently deadpan yet whimsical manner. The writing is clear and direct, modeled on that of his favorite author, Evelyn Waugh, with occasional jaunty overtones of P.G. Wodehouse and Raymond Chandler. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hayford Peirce」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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