author
J. B. Woodley
A hard-to-trace science fiction writer best known for the futuristic tale With a Vengeance, first published in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1953. Very little confirmed biographical information survives, which gives the work an added air of mystery for modern readers.
1 Audiobook
With a Vengeance
by J. B. Woodley
About the author
J. B. Woodley is an elusive figure in classic science fiction. The clearest confirmed record is the novella With a Vengeance, which appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction in October 1953 and has since been preserved by Project Gutenberg and LibriVox.
Because reliable biographical sources are scarce, not much can be said with confidence about Woodley’s life beyond that publication history. What does remain is a compact, idea-driven story set in the year 2119, imagining political upheaval, ambition, and the unsettling ease with which a society can change course.
For audiobook listeners, that obscurity can be part of the appeal: Woodley comes to us almost entirely through the fiction itself. With a Vengeance offers a glimpse of mid-century magazine science fiction at work—brisk, speculative, and sharply focused on power and its consequences.