J. U. Giesy
BornAugust 6, 1877
Chillicothe, Ohio, United States
DiedSeptember 8, 1947(1947-09-08) (aged 70)
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
OccupationPhysician, writer
NationalityAmerican
Period1912–1924
GenreSpeculative 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

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

Giesy's "The Signal Fire" was cover-featured on the May 1916 issue of Adventure
Giesy's "The Wicked Flea" was published in Weird Tales, October 1925
Jason, Son of Jason was reprinted in Fantastic Novels in 1948

The Jason Croft series

Semi-Dual

(all written with Junius B. Smith) The Semi-Dual series includes:[7]

Professor Zapt

Other novels and stories

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See also

References

  1. ^ Westfahl 2000, p. 39.
  2. ^ "Science Fiction/Fantasy Authors of Various Faiths". Archived from the original on August 16, 2000. Retrieved September 8, 2011.((cite web)): CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ "Dr John Ulrich GIESY". Our Family History and Ancestry. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
  4. ^ Weinberg, Robert. "Editing". Retrieved September 8, 2011.
  5. ^ Westfahl 2000, p. 153
  6. ^ Sharp 2007, pp. 108–112.
  7. ^ Semi-Dual Archived April 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at the FictionMags Index

Further reading

  • 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.

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