Prometheus Award
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Julian Clare May
ジュリアン・クレア・メイ
Jurian Kurea Mei
Aliases:
Judy May / J. C. May
Pen Names:
Lee N. Falconer（For non-fiction works）,
Ian Thorne（For horror movie novelizations）,
Bob Cunningham（Pen name）,
Judy Dikty（Film credit）,
John Feilen（Pen name）,
Wolfgang Amadeus Futslogg（Pen name）,
Matthew G. Grant（Pen name）,
Granny Roseboro（Pen name）,
Jean Wright Thorne（Pen name）,
George Zanderbergen（Pen name）,
The Editors of Creative（Pen name）
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1931-07-10 （Chicago, Illinois, US）
- Died
- 2017-10-17 age 86
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Elmwood Park, Illinois (suburb of Chicago) → Moved to Oregon in the early 1970s
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Science writer
- Active Years
- 1950-2017
- Affiliations
- Publication Associates
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | First Fandom Hall of Fame | — | — | First Fandom | inducted |
First Fandom Hall of Fame
2015
Organization:
First Fandom
Result:
inducted
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Many-Colored Land
1981 Science fictionBook 1 of the Saga of Pliocene Exile.
The Golden Torc
1982 Science fictionBook 2 of the Saga of Pliocene Exile.
Intervention
1987 Science fictionRoot tale to the Galactic Milieu Series.
Jack the Bodiless
1991 Science fictionBook 1 of the Galactic Milieu Series proper.
Black Trillium
1990 FantasyCollaboration with Marion Zimmer Bradley and Andre Norton.
Bibliography
- Dune Roller
- The Many-Colored Land
- The Golden Torc
- The Nonborn King
- The Adversary
- Intervention
- Jack the Bodiless
- Diamond Mask
- Magnificat
- Black Trillium
Adaptations
- Short story 'Dune Roller' adapted as 1972 film 'The Cremators' (credited as Judy Dikty).
Legacy
American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and children's writer best known for her Saga of Pliocene Exile (Saga of the Exiles in the UK) and Galactic Milieu Series books.
In Popular Culture
- Short story 'Dune Roller' was filmed in 1972 as The Cremators.
Trivia
- Chaired the Tenth World Science Fiction Convention in 1952, the first woman to chair a Worldcon.
- Sold her first professional fiction, short story 'Dune Roller', in 1950 to Astounding Science Fiction (published 1951).
- Involved in science fiction fandom in late teens, published fanzine Interim Newsletter.
- Founded Publication Associates with husband T. E. Dikty in 1957.
- Inducted into the First Fandom Hall of Fame in 2015 at the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention.