author
John Bernard Daley
1918–2011
A little-known pulp-era science fiction writer, he left behind a small handful of imaginative stories that still catch readers with their odd ideas and brisk adventure. His work belongs to the lively magazine tradition of 1950s speculative fiction.
2 Audiobooks
Wings of the phoenix
by John Bernard Daley
The man who liked lions
by John Bernard Daley
About the author
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 24, 1918, John Bernard Daley was an American writer remembered for a very small body of science fiction. Reference sources identify him as Bernard John Daley, with work published under the name John Bernard Daley.
He is associated with mid-20th-century magazine science fiction, and is best known today for stories including The Man Who Liked Lions and Wings of the Phoenix, both of which have been preserved and reissued for modern readers. Though not a widely documented figure, his fiction has continued to circulate through archive and bibliography projects that keep lesser-known genre writers in view.
Daley died on April 27, 2011, at age 92. Even with few biographical details available, his surviving stories offer a glimpse of the inventive, fast-moving spirit that made classic pulp science fiction so memorable.