movement death_date death_place birth_place pseudonym imagesize nationality birth_date genre article_title name occupation
new wave 14 october 2008 shrewsbury , england birmingham , england alan -rrb- , john diamond , p. f. woods aumbry , michael barrington -lrb- with michael moorcock 200 px british 9 april 1937 science fiction barrington j. bayley
 barrington j. bayley fiction writer
barrington j. bayley

barrington j. bayley -lrb- 9 april 1937 -- 14 october 2008 -rrb- 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 14 october 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 rumours and listings of copies have circulated , including claims of a 2002 release date and a page count of 288 .
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 .
