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Leslie Waltham
A mid-century science fiction writer whose work appeared in classic pulp magazines, crafting sharp speculative stories with a lively, readable style. Best known today for The 13th Juror and Sibling, the writing blends futuristic ideas with human-scale tension.
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The 13th juror
by Leslie Waltham
About the author
Leslie Waltham was a science fiction writer published during the 1950s pulp-magazine era. Confirmed works include Sibling (1953), The 13th Juror (1955), Imperfection (1953), and I Like a Happy Ending (1955).
The 13th Juror first appeared in Startling Stories in Summer 1955, and Sibling was published with illustration by Virgil Finlay. Those stories help place Waltham among the many writers who contributed memorable, idea-driven fiction to mid-century magazine science fiction.
Reliable biographical details beyond the published work are hard to confirm from the sources I found, so it is better to treat Leslie Waltham as a somewhat elusive figure whose surviving reputation rests mainly on the stories themselves and their continued availability in public-domain and bibliographic archives.