KELLEY, Leo P(atrick)

(1928-)

   US novelist, for some time also an advertising copywriter. He began publishing sf with "Dreamtown, U.S.A." for If in 1955. Several of his sf novels likewise concentrate on societies which invidiously dominate their inhabitants by psychological means, as in his second, Odyssey to Earthdeath (1968). His first, The Counterfeits (1967), as by Leo F.Kelley, similarly puts sociological sf into a routine adventure frame. An oddly affectless baroque style sometimes jars against the stories he tells, pretending an urgency it fails to convey through plots of a fashionable grimness; but he has been a readable contributor to the genre.

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   Other works: Time Rogue (1970); The Accidental Earth (1970); The Coins of Murph (1971); Brother John * (1971); Time: 110100 (1972; vt The Man from Maybe 1974 UK); Mindmix (1972); Mythmaster (1973); The Earth Tripper (1973); a series of short juveniles, comprising Time Trap (1977 chap),Star Gold (1978 chap; vt Alien Gold 1983), Backward in Time (1979 chap), Death Sentence (1979 chap), Earth Two (1979 chap), Prison Satellite (1979 chap), Sunworld (1979 chap), Worlds Apart (1979 chap), Night of Fire and Blood (1979 chap), Dead Moon (1979 chap), King of the Stars (1979 chap),On the Red World (1979 chap), Where No Sun Shines (1979 chap), Vacation in Space (1979 chap) and Good-bye to Earth (1979 chap).As Editor: Themes in Science Fiction (anth 1972); Fantasy, the Literature of the Marvelous (anth 1973); The Supernatural in Fiction (anth 1973).