Julian Clare May Dikty
pen names: Bob Cunningham, Judy Dikty, Lee N. Falconer, John Feilen, Wolfgang Amadeus Futslogg, Matthew G. Grant, Granny Roseboro, Ian Thorne (for film novelisations), Jean Wright Thorne, George Zanderbergen, and The Editors of Creative.
born Chicago, Illinois: 10 July 1931
died Bellevue, Washington: 17 October 2017
Julian May was an American author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, science non-fiction, comic strips and children's literature. She contributed thousands of encyclopaedia articles, and she was also an editor and small press publisher, Publication Associates.
She began writing science fiction in the fanzine Interim Newsletter. Her first professionally published fiction was the short story Dune Roller (1951) in Astounding Science Fiction. This story was frequently anthologised, adapted for TV Tales of Tomorrow, and also filmed as The Cremators in 1972.
After her marriage and move to Oregon, she dropped out of writing science fiction from the early ‘50’s until the late ‘70’s.
She is probably best known today for her Galactic Milieu: Saga of Pliocene Exile series, beginning with The Many Coloured Land (1981), The Golden Torc (1982), The Nonborn King (1983) and The Adversary (1984). These are a planetary romance and alternate history where the protagonists leave a future Utopian Earth to time travel to a prehistoric past where human beings are in conflict with aliens.
May wrote for the fantasy shared world Trillium / World of the Three Moons series together with Marion Zimmer Bradley and Andre Norton, beginning with Black Trillium (1990).
She wrote The Rampart Worlds fantasy trilogy, beginning with Perseus Spur (1998).
She also wrote many film novelisations, and children's Popular Mechanics books.
She is another of the authors whose work has frequently appeared in the queries in our SFF Chronicles Book Search forum, an indication that it is remembered with some fondness.
A list of her works is to be found here: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?291
Wikipedia page: Julian May - Wikipedia
pen names: Bob Cunningham, Judy Dikty, Lee N. Falconer, John Feilen, Wolfgang Amadeus Futslogg, Matthew G. Grant, Granny Roseboro, Ian Thorne (for film novelisations), Jean Wright Thorne, George Zanderbergen, and The Editors of Creative.
born Chicago, Illinois: 10 July 1931
died Bellevue, Washington: 17 October 2017
Julian May was an American author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, science non-fiction, comic strips and children's literature. She contributed thousands of encyclopaedia articles, and she was also an editor and small press publisher, Publication Associates.
She began writing science fiction in the fanzine Interim Newsletter. Her first professionally published fiction was the short story Dune Roller (1951) in Astounding Science Fiction. This story was frequently anthologised, adapted for TV Tales of Tomorrow, and also filmed as The Cremators in 1972.
After her marriage and move to Oregon, she dropped out of writing science fiction from the early ‘50’s until the late ‘70’s.
She is probably best known today for her Galactic Milieu: Saga of Pliocene Exile series, beginning with The Many Coloured Land (1981), The Golden Torc (1982), The Nonborn King (1983) and The Adversary (1984). These are a planetary romance and alternate history where the protagonists leave a future Utopian Earth to time travel to a prehistoric past where human beings are in conflict with aliens.
May wrote for the fantasy shared world Trillium / World of the Three Moons series together with Marion Zimmer Bradley and Andre Norton, beginning with Black Trillium (1990).
She wrote The Rampart Worlds fantasy trilogy, beginning with Perseus Spur (1998).
She also wrote many film novelisations, and children's Popular Mechanics books.
She is another of the authors whose work has frequently appeared in the queries in our SFF Chronicles Book Search forum, an indication that it is remembered with some fondness.
A list of her works is to be found here: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?291
Wikipedia page: Julian May - Wikipedia
