author

Berkeley Livingston

1909–1975

A prolific mid-century pulp science-fiction writer, he filled magazines with brisk, imaginative tales of aliens, strange inventions, and cosmic trouble. His work still turns up in digital archives, where stories like "Oogie Finds Love" and "Death of a B.E.M." keep his playful side alive.

2 Audiobooks

Oogie Finds Love

Oogie Finds Love

by Berkeley Livingston

Death of a B.E.M.

Death of a B.E.M.

by Berkeley Livingston

About the author

Berkeley Livingston (1909–1975) was an American science-fiction writer best known for short fiction in the pulp-magazine era. Records from the Internet Speculative Fiction Database show his stories appearing in magazines such as Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures during the 1940s and around 1950, including titles like Me and My Shadow, Mr. Jones' Eternal Camera, Land of the Damned, and Gehenna, Incorporated.

Project Gutenberg currently lists Oogie Finds Love and Death of a B.E.M. among the works available under his name, which has helped keep at least part of his fiction easy to find for modern readers. Some database records also connect the alternate name B. E. Liston to Berkeley Livingston.

The surviving online record seems to focus much more on the stories than on the man himself, so detailed biographical information is limited. Even so, the fiction that remains suggests a writer who was very much at home in the fast-moving, idea-driven world of classic pulp SF.