Ernest Hill (14 July 1915 – May 2003)[1] was an English science fiction author and advertisement manager[2] who was active as a writer from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s.
After a period in which he lived "in an ancient mill-house where the original water wheel ground the charcoal for some of the first gunpowder used for lethal purposes in Europe" he came to reside in London.
[4] Hill worked as a farmer, policeman, soldier, civil servant, and from 1955 onward advertisement manager for the technical journal Consulting Engineer.
[2] Hill first published science fiction story was "The Last Generation," which appeared in the January 1964 issue of New Worlds.
His literary interests included Frederik Pohl, Vladimir Nabokov, and Isaac Asimov.