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Joe L. Hensley

Lifespan: 1926 – 2007
Nationality: American
Active: 1959
Works held: 1

Joe L. Hensley (1926–2007) balanced a career as an Indiana lawyer and judge with writing; he published science fiction from the 1950s (often in the Milford-workshop orbit, sometimes with Harlan Ellison) and became better known for his legal-thriller crime novels. A respected part-timer whose genre stories carry a distinctive moral edge.

The works

1959

Now We Are Three

Wrote across

Recurring themes

Post-Apocalyptic Social SF

Kindred authors shared themes

Alfred Coppel Algis Budrys Anthony Boucher Arthur Dekker Savage Arthur G. Stangland Basil Wells Ben Bova Bill Clothier

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Stephen Marlowe Randall Garrett Robert Silverberg Bryce Walton Alan Edward Nourse H. Beam Piper Murray Leinster Winston K. Marks Charles L. Fontenay Poul Anderson

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