author
Berkeley Livingston
1909–1975
A lively pulp-era science fiction writer, he filled the pages of Fantastic Adventures and Amazing Stories with fast-moving tales of strange worlds, monsters, and cosmic trouble. Writing under a working name, he became a familiar presence in mid-century magazine SF.
2 Audiobooks
Oogie Finds Love
by Berkeley Livingston
Death of a B.E.M.
by Berkeley Livingston
About the author
Born Berkeley Beryl Levinstein in Chicago on November 26, 1909, he published as Berkeley Livingston and built his reputation in the American pulp magazines of the 1940s and 1950s. Reference sources on science fiction credit him with beginning his genre career in Fantastic Adventures in 1943, and with producing roughly fifty stories for that magazine and its companion, Amazing Stories.
His fiction was very much in the spirited pulp tradition: energetic plots, big speculative ideas, and titles that promised adventure. Some of his better-known works include Queen of the Panther World, Land of the Damned, and Death of a B.E.M. He also wrote under other names at times, which was common in magazine publishing of the period.
Livingston died on February 28, 1975. While he is not as widely known today as some of his contemporaries, his work remains part of the rich, imaginative world of classic magazine science fiction and still turns up in reprints, indexes, and digital archives of pulp-era stories.