 He became an active member of British science fiction fandom and the British representative of the Fortean Society.He won the first annual Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1955 recognizing his humorous "Allamagoosa" as the year's best science fiction.The 1962 novel "The Great Explosion" won a Prometheus Hall of Fame Award in 1985—the third naming of two works to the libertarian science fiction hall of fame.