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A. L. Haley

Best known for a handful of mid-century science fiction stories, this writer brought a light, playful touch to pulp-era ideas about Mars, robots, and the far reaches of space. Very little biographical information seems to survive, which gives the work an added air of mystery.

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 science fiction writer active in the 1950s. LibriVox identifies the author as a contributor of short science fiction stories to periodicals and lists a floruit of 1955, suggesting that the surviving record is centered on that era rather than on a well-documented life story.

Two stories that are consistently associated with the name are Hagerty's Enzymes and Jupiter's Joke. Hagerty's Enzymes was published in Planet Stories in Spring 1955, and later digitized by Project Gutenberg, while modern library and bookseller listings continue to group these works with classic "Golden Age" science fiction.

Because reliable biographical sources are scarce, it is hard to say much more with confidence about the person behind the byline. What can be said is that Haley's fiction has remained discoverable through archives, reprints, and audiobook catalogs, allowing new readers to keep encountering these brisk, imaginative stories decades after their original magazine publication.