You're probably right! I wasn't sure of the subject for that part and Micchi is the subject for the earlier part of the line so I assumed incorrectly
A lot of this stuff is historical reenactments of history that I'm not as well-versed in as I'd hope to be so good catch, thanks!
Closest I could find is that he seems to be named after a science fiction author named Barrington J. Bayley, but that author existing also could've been clouding my search results to begin with
Link to a pdf the short-story shown in this chapter for those curious (the section shown is from the end of page 54): https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1986-tiptree-theonlyneatthingtodo.pdf
Thank you for the high expectations in general but there's really no need for all the hostility here, simply letting me know about the error would have been enough for me to fix it... I've already fixed the error