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Auteur

J. U. Giesy

1877–1947

Naissance
6 août 1877, Chillicothe
Décès
8 septembre 1947, Salt Lake City
Nationalité
États-Unis
Profession
Romancier ou romancière et écrivain ou écrivaine de science-fiction

Vie et œuvre

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John Ulrich Giesy (August 6, 1877 – September 8, 1947) was an American physician, novelist and author. He was one of the early writers in the Sword and Planet genre, with his Jason Croft series. He collaborated with Junius B. Smith on many of his stories.

Career

Giesy was born near Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, USA.

Robert Weinberg's website described the series of stories starring Jason Croft as "[o]ne of the most popular scientific romance trilogies published in All-Story Weekly magazine of the first quarter of the 20th century." Giesy also wrote for other pulp magazines such as Argosy, Adventure and Weird Tales. Giesy's 1915 novel All For His Country is a story of a future invasion of the US by the Japanese. Because All For His Country depicts Japanese-Americans living in California helping the invasion, some critics have cited it as an example of the anti-Japanese racism that ultimately resulted in the Internment of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor.

Giesy lived in Salt Lake City where he met Junius B. Smith, with whom he co-authored a large number of stories, including those featuring the occult detective Semi-Dual.

The Jason Croft series

Palos of the Dog Star Pack (All-Story Magazine, July–August 1918)

The Mouthpiece of Zitu (All-Story Weekly, July–August 1919)

Jason, Son of Jason (Argosy All-Story, April–May 1921)

Semi-Dual

(all written with Junius B. Smith)

The Semi-Dual series includes:

"The Occult Detector" (The Cavalier, February–March 1912)

"House of Invisible Bondage" (All-Story Weekly, 1926)

"Black and White" (1920)

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Collection

Livres de J. U. Giesy

3 livres