Lyndon Hardy

Lyndon Mauriece Hardy (born April 16, 1941) is an American physicist, fantasy author, and business owner.

Biography Hardy was born on April 16, 1941, in Los Angeles to Leonard and Zell (néé Smith) Hardy.

He attended the California Institute of Technology as an undergraduate and the University of California Berkeley for his Ph.D.

In 1961, Hardy masterminded the Great Rose Bowl Hoax, in which Caltech students rearranged the cards used by Washington to spell out words during halftime.

In his college years, he became fascinated with fantasy literature. In addition to being a fantasy author, he worked for 30 years at the aerospace company TRW, and started a computer consulting company named Alodar Systems Inc. that, among other things, helped develop intelligence tools for medical research and enterprise resource planning software for small businesses. He is married and has two daughters.

Hardy is a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America. His primary work of fiction is the Magic by the Numbers series, published 1980–1988 and 2017–2023.