Barrington J. Bayley

Barrington J. Bayley
Born	(1937-04-09)April 9, 1937 Birmingham, England
Died	October 14, 2008(2008-10-14) (aged 71)
Pen name	Alan Aumbry, Michael Barrington (with Michael Moorcock), John Diamond, P. F. Woods
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer
Nationality	British
Genre	Science fiction
Literary movement	New Wave

Barrington J. Bayley (April 9, 1937 – October 14, 2008) was an English science fiction writer.

Bayley was born in Birmingham and educated in Newport, Shropshire. He worked a number of jobs before joining the Royal Air Force in 1955; his first published story, "Combat's End", had seen print the year before in Vargo Statten Magazine.

In the 1960s, Bayley became friends and a frequent collaborator with New Worlds editor Michael Moorcock, who described himself as "the dumb one in the partnership" and joined science fiction's New Wave movement. His short stories featured regularly in New Worlds magazine and then later in various New Worlds paperback anthologies, His first book, The Star Virus, was followed by more than a dozen other novels; his downbeat, gloomy approach to novel writing has been cited as influential on the likes of M. John Harrison, Brian Stableford, Bruce Sterling, Iain Banks and Alastair Reynolds.

Bayley died of complications from bowel cancer on October 14, 2008. In 2001, he had written an outline for a sequel to Eye of Terror, provisionally titled An Age of Adventure. The novel was unreleased at the time of his death but rumors and listings of copies have circulated, including a paperback edition from Simon & Schuster with ISBN 0-7434-1172-2, a listing on Google Books stating that the novel was published in 2002 and had 288 pages and a listing on AbeBooks stating that the novel has ISBN 0-575-10218-7. The book still makes appearances in lists of his works, including the bibliography in the ebooks of Bayley's works released by the Gollancz SF Gateway.

Bibliography

Bayley used the pen names P.F Woods, J. Barrington Bayley, Alan Aumbry, Michael Barrington, Simon Barclay, and John Diamond.

Novels

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Collections

• The Knights of the Limits (1978)
• The Seed of Evil (1979)

Short stories

• "Combat's End" (aka "Cosmic Combatants") (1954)
• "Cold Death" (1955)
• "Last Post" (1955)
• "Kindly Travellers" (1955)
• "The Bargain" (1955)
• "Martyrs Appointed" (1955)
• "Fugitive" (1956)
• "The Reluctant Death" (1956)
• "Consolidation" (1959)
• "Peace on Earth" (with Michael Moorcock) (1959)
• "The Tank" (1961)
• "The Radius Riders" (1962)
• "Double Time" (1962)
• "The Big Sound" (1962)
• "The Ship That Sailed the Ocean of Space" (aka "Fishing Trip") (1962)
• "Solo Flight" (1963)
• "Flux" (with Michael Moorcock) (1963)
• "Natural Defence" (1963)
• "Return Visit" (1963)
• "Farewell, Dear Brother" (1964)
• "The Countenance" (1964)
• "Integrity" (1964)
• "The Star Virus" (1964)
• "The Patch" (1964)
• "All the King's Men" (1965)
• "The Ship of Disaster" (1965)
• "Reactionary" (1965)
• "Catspaw" (1965)
• "A Taste of the Afterlife" (with Charles Platt) (1966)
• "Aid to Nothing" (1967)
• "The Four-Color Problem" (1971)
• "Exit From City 5" (1971)
• "Man In Transit" (1972)
• "The Exploration of Space" (1972)
• "The Seed of Evil" (1973)
• "Mutation Planet" (1973)
• "An Overload" (1973)
• "Me and My Antronoscope" (1973)
• "Maladjustment" (1974)
• "The Bees of Knowledge" (1975)
• "The Cabinet of Oliver Naylor" (1976)
• "The Problem of Morley's Emission" (1978)
• "Rome Vindicated" (1978)
• "Sporting with the Chid" (1979)
• "Life Trap" (1979)
• "Perfect Love" (1979)
• "The Infinite Searchlight" (1979)
• "Wizard Wazo's Revenge" (1979)
• "The God Gun" (1979)
• "The Forever Racket" (1980)
• "The Ur-Plant" (1983)
• "Escapist Literature" (1985)
• "When They Asked Him What Happens" (1988)
• "Death Ship" (1989)
• "Cling to the Curvature!" (1989)
• "Tommy Atkins" (1989)
• "The Death of Arlett" (1989)
• "The Phobeya" (with Sean Bayley) (1990)
• "Galimatias" (1990)
• "Culture Shock" (1990)
• "Light" (1991)
• "The Remembrance" (1991)
• "Don't Leave Me" (1992)
• "Doctor Pinter in the Mythology Isles" (1992)
• "Why Live? Dream!" (1992)
• "Quiddity Wars" (1992)
• "Teatray in the Sky" (1992)
• "This Way into the Wendy House" (1993)
• "Love in Backspace" (1994)
• "Gnostic Endings: Flight to the Hypercosmos" (1994)
• "On the Ledge" (1994)
• "Get Out of Here" (1995)
• "Duel Among the Wine Green Suns" (with Michael Moorcock) (1995)
• "The Island of Dr. Romeau" (1995)
• "A Crab Must Try" (1996)
• "The Crear" (1996)
• "Children of the Emperor" (Warhammer 40K) (1998)
• "The Lives of Ferag Lion-Wolf" (Warhammer 40K) (1999)
• "The Sky Tower" (2000)
• "Battle of the Archeosaurs" (Warhammer 40K) (2000)
• "Planet of the Stercorasaurs" (2000)
• "Hive Fleet Horror" (Warhammer 40K) (2000)
• "The Worms of Hess" (2000)
• "The Revolt of the Mobiles" (2000)
• "It Was a Lover and His Lass" (2001)
• "Domie" (2001)
• "The Multiplex Fixative" (2003)
• "Party Smart Card" (2006)
• "Formic Gender Disorder" (2008)

External links

• Barrington J. Bayley at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Astounding World of Barrington J. Bayley Fan Site
• Annihilation Factotum Overview by Rhys Hughes