Obituary: Barrington J. Bayley UK science fiction writer Barrington J. Bayley, born 1937, died yesterday, October 14, 2008, at the age of 71, from complications following bowel cancer. Bayley's first published story was "Combat's End" in Vargo Statten Science Fiction Magazine in 1954. In the 1960s he published regularly in New Worlds magazine and then various New Worlds anthologies, with notable s