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A. L. Haley

A little-known pulp-era science fiction writer, this author left behind fast, imaginative stories set on Mars and Jupiter. The surviving record is slim, which gives the work an extra air of mystery for readers who enjoy rediscovering vintage SF.

2 Audiobooks

Hagerty's Enzymes

Hagerty's Enzymes

by A. L. Haley

Jupiter's Joke

Jupiter's Joke

by A. L. Haley

About the author

A. L. Haley appears to have been a mid-20th-century science fiction writer whose work was published in classic pulp magazines. The clearest confirmed titles are Jupiter's Joke, which Project Gutenberg identifies as originating from Planet Stories in Fall 1954, and Hagerty's Enzymes, traced to Planet Stories in Spring 1955.

Modern catalog records available during this search are sparse. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database and Project Gutenberg both list A. L. Haley, but they provide only a small bibliography, so many personal details about the writer's life remain hard to verify.

That limited record makes Haley interesting in a different way: the stories themselves are what remain in focus. For listeners who like vintage speculative fiction, Haley's work offers a glimpse of the lively, adventure-driven style that helped define the pulp science fiction era.