Barrington J. Bayley (1937-2008)

http://locusmag.com/2008/News_Obit_BarringtonBayley.html

*It'll surprise me if any commentator is able to do this guy justice.
Bayley was never a popular novelist, because it is physically impossible to make such visionary idiosyncrasy popular. But he was a science fiction writer's science fiction writer. Look at these quotes here.

*He wasn't so much "avant-garde" as from another dimension.

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