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Leslie Waltham

A mid-century science fiction writer whose known work points to sharp, idea-driven storytelling. Best remembered today for The 13th Juror, he imagined future justice systems and emotional lives with a classic pulp-era sense of intrigue.

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The 13th juror

The 13th juror

by Leslie Waltham

Sibling

by Leslie Waltham

About the author

Leslie Waltham appears to be a mid-20th-century fiction writer whose surviving, easily verified record is quite slim. Reliable catalog and ebook sources confirm The 13th Juror as his best-known work, originally published in Startling Stories in 1955 and later made available through Project Gutenberg.

That novel blends courtroom drama with science fiction, placing questions of guilt, emotion, and technology inside a futuristic legal system. Bibliographic sources also list short fiction including Sibling and Imperfection, suggesting a writer active in speculative magazine fiction during the 1950s.

Because detailed biographical information is scarce in the sources available, much of Waltham's personal story remains unclear. What does come through, though, is a taste for compact, thought-provoking science fiction built around big social ideas.