COULSON, Juanita (Ruth Wellons)

(1933-)

   US writer, briefly a schoolteacher, who began publishing sf with "Another Rib" in FSF in 1963 with Marion Zimmer BRADLEY under the shared pseudonym John Jay Wells. With her husband, Robert COULSON, she won the 1965 Best Amateur Publication HUGO for their long-running fanzine YANDRO. JC's first novel, Crisis on Cheiron (1967 dos), like her second, The Singing Stones (1968 dos), is set on a primitive planet in a human-dominated Galaxy; the oppressed species of each planet needs help to survive the inimical influence of large corporations and the like. Unto the Last Generation 1975 Canada) deals negatively with population control; Space Trap (1976 Canada) is a First-Contact tale. The romantic coloration of her work is more evident in the Children of the Stars family saga of exploration and survival: Tomorrow's Heritage (1981), Outward Bound (1982), Legacy of Earth (1989) and The Past of Forever (1989). Star Sister (1990) continues in the same mode. She has also written FANTASY and Gothic novels.

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   Other works: The Secret of Seven Oaks (1972), Door into Terror (1972), Stone of Blood (1975) and Fear Stalks the Bayou (1976), Gothics; the Krantin fantasy series, comprising The Web of Wizardry (1978) and The Death-God's Citadel (1980); Dark Priestess (1977), historical and marginal.