John Ulrich Giesy
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Born | August 6, 1877 Chillicothe, Ohio, United States |
Died | September 8, 1947 Salt Lake City, Utah, US | (aged 70)
Occupation | Physician, writer |
Nationality | American |
Period | 1912–1924 |
Genre | Speculative fiction |
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.[1] He collaborated with Junius B. Smith on many of his stories.
Career
[edit]Giesy was born near Chillicothe,[2] Ross County, Ohio,[3] 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."[4] 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.[5] 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.[6] 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.
Bibliography
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The Jason Croft series
[edit]- 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
[edit](all written with Junius B. Smith) The Semi-Dual series includes:[7]
- "The Occult Detector" (The Cavalier, February–March 1912)
- "House of Invisible Bondage" (All-Story Weekly, 1926)
- "Black and White" (1920)
- "The Black Butterfly" (1918)
- "Box 991" (1916)
- "The Curse of Quetzal" (1914)
- "The Compass in the Sky" (People's Magazine May 1917)
- "The Ghost of a Name" (The Cavalier December 20, 1913)
- "The Green Goddess" (Argosy Jan 31, Feb 7, Feb 14, February 21, 1931)
- "The House of the Ego" The Cavalier Sep 20, Sep 27, October 4, 1913
- "House of the Hundred Lights" All-Story Weekly May 22, May 29, 1920
- "The Ivory Pipe" All-Story Weekly Sep 20, Sep 27, October 4, 1919
- "The Killer" All-Story Weekly Apr 7, April 14, 1917
- "The Ledger of Life" (1934)
- "The Master Mind" The Cavalier January 25, 1913
- "The Opposing Venus" (1923)
- "Poor Little Pigeon" (1924)
- "The Purple Light" The Cavalier Oct 5, Oct 12, October 19, 1912
- "Rubies of Doom" The Cavalier Jul 5, July 12, 1913
- "The Significance of the High "D”" The Cavalier Mar 9, Mar 16, March 23, 1912
- "Snared" All-Story Weekly Dec 18, December 25, 1915
- "Solomon's Decision" (1917)
- "The Stars Were Looking" Top-Notch July 1, 1918
- "Stars of Evil" (1919)
- "The Storehouse of Past Events" People's Favorite Magazine February 10, 1918
- "The Unknown Quantity" All-Story Weekly Aug 25, Sep 1, September 8, 1917
- "The Web of Circumstance" All Around Magazine Nov 1916
- "The Web of Destiny" (1915)
- "The Wistaria Scarf" The Cavalier Jun 1, Jun 8, June 15, 1912
- "The Wolf of Erlik" (1921)
- "The Woolly Dog" Argosy All-Story Weekly March 23, 1929
Professor Zapt
[edit]- "Indegestible Dog Biscuits" (1915)
- "Blind Man's Buff" (1920)
- "Zapt's Repulsive Paste" (1919)
- "The Wicked Flea" (1925)
Other novels and stories
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- All for His Country (1915)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Westfahl 2000, p. 39.
- ^ "Science Fiction/Fantasy Authors of Various Faiths". Archived from the original on August 16, 2000. Retrieved September 8, 2011.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Dr John Ulrich GIESY". Our Family History and Ancestry. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- ^ Weinberg, Robert. "Editing". Retrieved September 8, 2011.
- ^ Westfahl 2000, p. 153
- ^ Sharp 2007, pp. 108–112.
- ^ Semi-Dual Archived April 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at the FictionMags Index
Further reading
[edit]- Westfahl, Gary. Space and beyond: the frontier theme in science fiction. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000 ISBN 978-0-313-30846-8.
- Sharp, Patrick B. Savage Perils: racial frontiers and nuclear apocalypse in American culture. University of Oklahoma Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8061-3822-0.
External links
[edit]- Works by John Ulrich Giesy at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- John Ulrich Giesy at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- John Ulrich Giesy at the FictionMags Index
- John Ulrich Giesy Archived November 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at the Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition
- John Ulrich Giesy at Locus Magazine's Index to Science Fiction
- John Ulrich Giesy at Fantastic Fiction