Bryan Berry
(January 26, 1930 – 1966)
Bryan Berry was a UK pro and fan from Kent active in the first half of the 1950s. He attended the London SF Con of 1952 and Coroncon of 1953. At the latter he was part of 'A knockabout skit in which Bert Campbell and Bryan Berry played the parts of eccentric scientists'[1]. He also attended meetings at the White Horse.
Berry had been a schoolfriend of Denis Gifford and Bob Monkhouse and started publishing comic strips in 1947 before undertaking two years National Service. He published nine novels between 1952 and 1954, some under pennames, and a handful of short stories, mostly in Planet Stories – with three appearing in the January 1953 issue – and Authentic Science Fiction. He contributed a cartoon-of-comment to Planet Stories in July 1953 portraying 'Bryan Berry's reaction to the vizigraph comments on his trio of stories'.
Some sources give Berry's death as 1955 as he dropped out of sight at that point and there were rumours of suicide (his last published story was 'Strange Suicide') or an accident. However, it seems he died in 1966.
Links
- Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
- Bryan Berry in Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Bryan Berry by Steve Holland at bearalley.blogspot.com.
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- ↑ Walt Willis, Nebula #4 (Autumn 1953).
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