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J. B. Woodley

A little-known American writer remembered for a sharp 1953 science-fiction story, with a style that turns political satire into something personal and unsettling. Though only a small body of work is widely documented, that single surviving title has kept interest in his name alive among vintage SF readers.

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With a Vengeance

With a Vengeance

by J. B. Woodley

About the author

Available public records on this author are very slim. LibriVox identifies J. B. Woodley as an American laborer who lived from 1924 to 1998, and the clearest work tied to the name is With a Vengeance, a science-fiction story first published in Galaxy Science Fiction in October 1953.

That story has had an afterlife well beyond its original magazine appearance. It is listed by Project Gutenberg and other public-domain repositories, which has helped preserve Woodley’s name for modern readers even though detailed biographical information is hard to find.

Because so little has been reliably documented, it’s best to think of Woodley as one of those mid-century pulp-era writers known mainly through the work itself rather than a well-recorded public career. In his case, that surviving work points to an author interested in future politics, media, and the uneasy relationship between power and language.