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Julian May

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Julian Clare May
Julian May at the 1952 World Science Fiction Convention
Julian May at the 1952 World Science Fiction Convention
Born(1931-07-10)July 10, 1931
Chicago, Illinois, US
DiedOctober 17, 2017(2017-10-17) (aged 86)
Pen nameBob Cunningham, Judy Dikty, Lee N. Falconer, John Feilen, Wolfgang Amadeus Futslogg, Matthew G. Grant, Granny Roseboro, Ian Thorne, Jean Wright Thorne, George Zanderbergen, The Editors of Creative[1]
OccupationNovelist, science writer
Genrefantasy, science fiction, horror, science, children's
SpouseT. E. Dikty (1953–1991)

Julian Clare May (July 10, 1931 – October 17, 2017) was an American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and children's writer who also used several literary pseudonyms. She is best known for her Saga of Pliocene Exile (Saga of the Exiles in the United Kingdom) and Galactic Milieu Series books.

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There’s a whole lore about dreaming. In fact, Sigmund Freud wrote a book called The Interpretation of Dreams which many people think is the foundation of psychoanalysis. Well scientists now have looked at Freudian psychology and the brain using all these modern techniques. And first of all we realize that perhaps Sigmund Freud wasn’t totally wrong. There are many textbooks which simply dismiss Freudian psychology calling it nuts. That is nothing but the sexual fantasies of a repressed Venetian scientist of the last century. But now we realize there’s more to it. First of all the unconscious mind. We can actually see the brain in motion and we realize that much of the activity is totally unconscious. Just like what Freud predicted. And Freud also said there is the ego, the id and the superego, that we are in a constant battle with our desires and our conscious. And we see that now with brain scans. The ego is basically your prefrontal cortex. That is who you are. When you wonder where am I anyway. Well, you’re right there. You are sitting right behind your forehead. And then your desires. We see the pleasure center right there at the center of the brain. That is the libido. We see where the pleasure center is located. And then your conscience is right behind your eyes. The orbital frontal cortex right behind your eyes is where your conscience is. And so we actually see that in motion. If you were to see a chocolate cake you would see these three parts of the brain going zippity back and forth like a ping pong ball because you’re constantly debating the pleasure of eating a chocolate cake versus how fat you’re gonna become and all the sugar and the calories that you don’t really need. So we see the beginnings of Freudian psychology coming out of brain scans. And now dreams. Freud had a whole collection of interpretation of dreams. Scientists have looked at and said, “Nonsense.” Now we understand the physiology of the dreaming process. And we realize that it comes at the back of the brain, the very primitive part of the brain and that certain parts of the brain are shut off when you dream. First of all your prefrontal cortex is basically shut off, it’s quiet. Your orbital frontal cortex that is your conscience is also shut off. But that part of the brain is your fact checker. The part of the brain that said, “Hmmm, that’s not right. Something’s wrong” is right behind your eyes. That’s shut off. What is active when you dream is your amygdala. Now what does your amygdala govern? Fear and emotions. And so right then you know that when you dream the active part of the brain is not the fact checker, not the rational brain – it’s the emotional brain, the fearful brain that is active when you dream. And then there’s some superstition called lucid dreaming where you can actually control the direction of the dream. Well that superstition last year became science fact. At the Max Planck Institute in Germany they were able to show once and for all that lucid dreaming is testable, reproducible – it is real. And here’s how they did it. They took a person who was about to go to sleep and told them that when you dream clench your right fist and then clench your left fist. Now when you dream you are paralyzed. You cannot move when you dream. Otherwise we’d be able to carry out all sorts of horrible things and destroy ourselves. So we are paralyzed when we dream. But when this person went into a dream state you can clearly see that the brain initiated orders to clench your right fist and your left fist. In other words, he was conscious while he was dreaming. There are many Buddhist texts, many texts hundreds of years old that give you the outlines of how to control dreams. Lucid dreaming. We now know that it’s not hogwash that you can actually do this. You can actually direct the course of your dream. And then one day we may be able to brain scan the brain as you dream and put it on a screen. In which case somebody will be able to see you dream and know the direction of the dream and you are conscious of the process. In other words, the movie Inception is not totally hogwash.

Background and early career

Julian May grew up in Elmwood Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, the oldest of four children. Her parents were Matthew M. May (originally Majewski) and Julia Feilen May; as a child she was known as Judy May.

She became involved in science fiction fandom in her late teens, publishing the fanzine Interim Newsletter for a time. She sold her first professional fiction, a short story called "Dune Roller", in 1950 to John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction; it appeared in 1951, under the name "J. C. May", accompanied by her original illustrations.

She met her future husband, Ted Dikty, later that year at a convention in Ohio. May chaired the Tenth World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago in 1952, becoming the first woman to chair a worldcon, and married Dikty in January, 1953. After selling one more short story, "Star of Wonder" (to Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1953), she dropped out of the science fiction field for several years.

Period outside science fiction

May and Dikty had three children, the last of whom was born in 1958. Starting in 1954, May wrote thousands of science encyclopedia articles for Consolidated Book Publishers; after finishing that project, she wrote similar articles for two other encyclopedia publishers. In 1957 she and her husband founded a production and editorial service for small publishers, Publication Associates; the most notable projects May wrote and edited during this period include two episodes of the Buck Rogers comic strip and a new Catholic catechism for Franciscan Herald Press, a publisher associated with the Order of Friars Minor. Between 1956 and 1981 she wrote more than 250 books for children and young adults, most non-fiction, under her own name and a variety of pseudonyms; the subjects included science, history, and short biographies of modern-day celebrities such as athletes and musical groups.

"Dune Roller" was filmed in 1972 as The Cremators, in which she was credited as "Judy Dikty".[2]

Return to science fiction

Having moved to Oregon in the early 1970s, May began to get reacquainted with the world of fandom; in 1976, she attended Westercon 29 in Los Angeles, her first science-fiction convention in many years. She made an elaborate diamond-encrusted "space suit" for the convention's costume party, which started her thinking about what sort of character would wear such a suit. She soon began accumulating a folder of ideas for what would become the Galactic Milieu Series, and in 1978 she began writing what would become the Saga of Pliocene Exile. The first book in that series, The Many-Colored Land, was published in 1981 by Houghton Mifflin. In 1987, she continued the series with Intervention, finally followed in 1992 (with a change in publisher) by the Galactic Milieu Series: Jack the Bodiless, Diamond Mask and Magnificat.

In August 2015, she was inducted into the First Fandom Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention.

Bibliography (in alphabetical order of surname used as author)

Non-fiction under the name Lee N. Falconer

  • The Gazeteer of the Hyborian World of Conan, (Starmont House, June 1977). ISBN 0-916732-01-0.[3]

Adult fiction under the name Julian May

The Saga of Pliocene Exile

  1. The Many-Colored Land (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981). ISBN 0-395-30230-7.
  2. The Golden Torc (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982). ISBN 0-395-31261-2.
  3. The Nonborn King (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983). ISBN 0-395-32211-1.
  4. The Adversary (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984). ISBN 0-395-34410-7.

The Galactic Milieu Series

  1. Intervention: A Root Tale to the Galactic Milieu and a Vinculum between it and The Saga of Pliocene Exile (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987). ISBN 0-395-43782-2. (Paperback edition released in the US as two volumes, Surveillance and Metaconcert; UK paperback released as a single volume under the original title by Pan Books.)
    • Surveillance (Intervention no. 1) as separate paperback from Metaconcert.
    • Metaconcert (Intervention no. 2) as separate paperback from Surveillance (Del Rey, January 13, 1989). ISBN 0-345-35524-5.
  2. Jack the Bodiless (New York: Knopf, 1991). ISBN 0-679-40950-5.
  3. Diamond Mask (New York: Knopf, 1994). ISBN 0-679-43310-4.
  4. Magnificat (New York: Knopf, 1996). ISBN 0-679-44177-8.

Trillium

The Trillium series began as a three-way collaboration. After the first book, each of the three authors continued the series on her own.

  1. Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, and Andre Norton, Black Trillium (New York: Doubleday, 1990). ISBN 0-385-26185-3.
  2. Blood Trillium (New York: Bantam, 1992). ISBN 0-553-08851-3.
  3. Sky Trillium (New York: Del Rey, 1997). ISBN 0-345-38000-2.

The Rampart Worlds

  1. Perseus Spur (New York: Ballantine, 1999). ISBN 0-345-39510-7. (First published 1998 in UK.)
  2. Orion Arm (New York: Ballantine, 1999). ISBN 0-345-39519-0.
  3. Sagittarius Whorl: An Adventure of the Rampart Worlds (New York: Ballantine, 2001). ISBN 0-345-39518-2.

Boreal Moon

  1. Conqueror's Moon (New York: Ace, 2004). ISBN 0-441-01132-2.
  2. Ironcrown Moon (New York: Ace, 2005). ISBN 0-441-01244-2.
  3. Sorcerer's Moon (New York: Ace, 2006). ISBN 0-441-01383-X.

Juvenile fiction under the name Julian May

These books were written for Popular Mechanics Press in the late 1950s.

  1. There's Adventure in Automobiles (Popular Mechanics Press, 1961)
  2. There's Adventure in Astronautics (Popular Mechanics Press, 1961)
  3. There's Adventure in Marine Science (Popular Mechanics Press, 1959)
  4. There's Adventure in Jet Aircraft (Popular Mechanics Press, 1959)
  5. There's Adventure in Geology (Popular Mechanics Press, 1959)
  6. There's Adventure in Rockets (Popular Mechanics Press, 1958)
  7. There's Adventure in Electronics (Popular Mechanics Press, 1957)[4]
  8. There's Adventure in Chemistry (Popular Mechanics Press, 1957)[4]
  9. There's Adventure in Atomic Energy (Popular Mechanics Press, 1957)[4]

Works under the name Ian Thorne

  • The Blob (1982)
  • The Deadly Mantis (1982)
  • It Came from Outer Space (1982)
  • Frankenstein Meets Wolfman (1981)
  • Creature from the Black Lagoon (1981)
  • The Mummy (1981)
  • Godzilla (1977)
  • Frankenstein (1977)
  • Dracula (1977)
  • The Wolf Man (1977)

Biographies

  • Pelé World Soccer Star (1978)

Citations

  1. ^ Work of Julian May, p. 58
  2. ^ "The Cremators (1972)". Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Retrieved 2011-12-26.
  3. ^ "Bibliography: The Gazeteer of the Hyborian World of Conan". Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Retrieved 2011-12-26.
  4. ^ a b c Gale, Floyd C. (August 1958). "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf". Galaxy Science Fiction. p. 129.

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