Barrington J. Bayley

Barrington John Bayley ( born April 9, 1937 in Birmingham, † 14 October 2008) was a British science fiction author. He published his works mostly as Barrington J. Bayley, but also under the pseudonyms Alan Aumbry, John Diamond, PF Woods and in collaboration with Michael Moorcock as Michael Barrington.

Life

Barrington J. Bayley grew up in Newport ( Shropshire ) on, worked in various professions ( as a clerk in a coal mine and briefly as a reporter for the Wellington Journal ) and joined the Royal Air Force in 1955. At this time, his first short story Combat 's End had already been printed in a magazine. He left the RAF in 1957 and was from then on worked as a freelance writer for various newspapers and magazines, usually under a pseudonym. In the 1960s, his short stories appeared regularly in the magazine New Worlds, and later in Interzone. His Story A Crab Must Try in 1996 won the British Science Fiction Association Award, and The Worms of Hess got the 2000 Interzone Poll Award.

In 1970 he published his first novel Star virus, which appeared in Germany in the science fiction series Gemini. Overall, only a small part of his books appeared in German translation. His novel The Zen Gun 1983 was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award.

Barrington J. Bayley died in 2008 from complications due to colon cancer.

Works

  • The Star Virus, New York 1970
  • Annihilation Factor, New York, 1972 ( The German destruction factor, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna, 1985, ISBN 3-548-31093-1 )
  • Empire of Two Worlds, 1972 (Eng. The two-world empire, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin, 1984, ISBN 3-548-31075-3 )
  • Collision Course, New York, 1973 ( later under the title Collision with Chronos )
  • The Fall of Chronopolis, New York 1974
  • The Garments of Caean, Garden City 1976
  • The Soul of the Robot, London in 1976 (Eng. The soul of the robot, Rastatt 1984, ISBN 3-8118-3642-0 )
  • The Grand Wheel, New York 1977
  • Star Winds, New York 1978
  • The Knights of the Limits, London 1978 short story collection (Eng. The border knight, Rastatt, 1985, ISBN 3-8118-6741-5 )
  • The Seeds of Evil, London 1979 short story collection (Eng. The seed of evil, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-548-31088-5 )
  • The Pillars of Eternity, New York 1982
  • The Zen Gun, 1983/84
  • The Rod of Light, London 1985
  • The Forest of Peldain, New York 1985
  • Eye of Terror. A Warhammer 40,000 novel, Nottingham 1999
  • The Sinners of Erspia, Holicong 2002
  • The Great Hydration, Holicong 2002
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