HENSLEY, Joe L(ouis)

(1926-)

   US writer and Indiana Judicial Circuit Court judge 1975-88, active as an author of suspense novels, one of which, The Poison Summer (1974), was named in the New York Times Best of the Year List in 1974. Hebegan publishing sf with "Treasure City" for Planet Stories in 1952, and appeared with some frequency in the field, sometimes as J.L. Hensley and once, in collaboration with Alexei PANSHIN, as Louis J.A. Adams. Much of his best work appears in Final Doors (coll 1981), including two collaborations with Harlan ELLISON. His work is vigorous and action-oriented, possibly to a fault in his only sf novel, The Black Roads (1976 Canada), a chase story set in a post- HOLOCAUST USA whose integralweb of roads is dominated by a tyrannous organization; a rebellion is in the works.

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