Joe L. Hensley

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Joseph Louis "Joe" Hensley (born March 19, 1926 in Bloomington , Indiana ; died August 27, 2007 in Madison , Indiana) was an American science fiction and crime writer and lawyer .

Life

After serving in the United States Navy in 1946, Hensley studied law at Indiana University , where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1950 and was admitted to the bar in 1955, after having been drafted again from 1951 to 1952. In 1950 he married Charlotte Ruth Bettinger, with the he had a son. From 1955 he worked as a lawyer in Madison, from 1963 to 1966 he acted as a prosecutor for the counties Jefferson and Switzerland . In the meantime he was from 1961 to 1962 as an MP for Jefferson and Scott Counties in his state's parliament, the Indiana General Assembly . From 1975 to 1977 he was a judge in a county court, from 1977 to 1988 in the Court for the Fifth Judicial District of Indiana. From 1989 he was a senior partner in a law firm in Madison. From 1983 to 1984 he was President of the Indiana Judges Association.

Hensley was interested in science fiction all his life and has been a member of the SF fandom since the 1930s. In 2006 he received the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award . In 1953 he published a first SF short story in the pulp magazine Planet Stories . In total, he wrote around 30 stories and one SF novel, The Black Roads (1976). He worked several times with Harlan Ellison , with whom he had been friends since his army service. In 1981, Final Doors was a collection of Hensley's short stories. As a novelist, he was more prolific in the crime fiction field. He wrote 13 Donald Robak novels and six other crime novels, three of which were also translated into German.

bibliography

Donald Robak series
  • Deliver Us to Evil (1971)
    • English: Execution in seven days. Translated by Rosemarie Kahn-Ackermann. Desch (Die Midnight Books # 572), 1972, ISBN 3-420-00572-5 .
  • Legislative Body (1972)
  • Song of Corpus Juris (1974)
  • Rivertown Risk (1977)
  • A Killing in Gold (1978)
  • Minor Murders (1979)
  • Outcasts (1981)
  • Robak's Cross (1985)
  • Robak's Fire (1986)
  • Robak's Firm (1987)
  • Robak's Run (1990)
  • Robak's Witch (1997)
  • Robak in Black (2001)
Novels
  • The Color of Hate (1960, also as Color Him Guilty )
    • German: Mute witnesses. Translated by Robby Remmers. Heyne Books # 1311, 1968.
  • The Poison Summer (1974)
    • German: Poisonous summer. Translated by Christine Frauendorf-Mössel. Goldmann Rote Krimi # 4869, 1979, ISBN 3-442-04869-9 .
  • The Black Roads (1976)
  • Fort's Law (1987)
  • Grim City (1994)
  • Loose Coins (1998) (with Guy M Townsend)
  • Snowbird's Blood (2008)
Collections
  • Final Doors (1981)
  • Deadly Hunger and Other Tales (2001)
Short stories
  • Eyes of the Double Moon (1953)
  • And Not Quite Human (1953)
  • Guide Wire (1954)
  • Journey to the Hotlands (1955)
  • The Red and the Green (1955)
  • Once a Starman (1955)
  • The Sun Hunters (1955)
  • The Outvaders (1955)
  • Now We Are Three (1957)
  • Time of the Tinkers (1958)
  • The Pair (1958)
  • Star Ways (1958)
  • Visionary (1959, with Harlan Ellison)
  • Do-It-Yourself (1961, with Harlan Ellison)
    • German: Do-it-yourself. In: Harlan Ellison (ed.): The silver corridor. Goldmann's Space Paperback # 0152, 1973, ISBN 3-442-23152-3 .
  • Rodney Parish for Hire (1962, with Harlan Ellison)
  • Dark Conception (1964, with Alexei Panshin, as Louis JA Adams)
  • Lord Randy, My Son (1967)
    • German: My son Randy. In: Harlan Ellison (Ed.): 15 Science Fiction Stories. Heyne Anthologies # 32, 1970.
  • The Chicken Player (1967)
    • English: The Chicken Game. Isaac Asimov (Ed.): Isaac Asimov presents 100 evil little thrillers. Bastei Lübbe Paperback # 28133, 1985, ISBN 3-404-28133-0 .
  • Argent Blood (1967)
    • English: blood is life. Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): On the day before eternity. Heyne SF&F # 3151, 1969.
  • The Edge of the Rose (1969)
  • Shut the Last Door (1970, also as Shut the Final Door , 1976)
  • The Run from Home (1970)
  • Time Patrol (1972)
  • In Dark Places (1973)
  • The Midnight Bicyclist (1978, with Gene DeWeese )
  • The Calculator (1979)
  • Widow (1980)
  • Trial Tactics (1980)
  • Deadly Hunger (1981)
  • Fifty Chinese (1981)
  • Killer Scent (1981)
  • One Will Too Many (1981)
  • Paint Doctor (1981)
  • Pride in Performance (1981, with Gene DeWeese)
  • The Curly Caller (1981)
  • The Iron Collector (1981)
  • Harpist (1982)
    • German: The Harper. In: Isaac Asimov, Alice Laurance (ed.): Speculations. Heyne SF&F # 4274, 1986, ISBN 3-453-31254-6 . Also as: harper. In: Josh Pachter (ed.): Top Fantasy: Part Two. Heyne SF&F # 4518, 1988, ISBN 3-453-02775-2 .
  • Savant (1985)
  • Alvin's Witch (1991)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Morgan and Nay Funeral Home: The Honorable (Ret.) Judge Joseph Louis Hensley
personal data
SURNAME Hensley, Joe L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hensley, Joe Louis (full name); Hensley, Joseph Louis (alternative spelling); Adams, Louis JA (pen name); Hensley, JL (alternative spelling); Hensley, Joe (alternative spelling); Hensley, Joe H. (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Bloomington , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 2007
Place of death Madison , Indiana