LORRAH, Jean

(c1942-)

   US writer and academic, professor of English at Murray State University in Kentucky. For the sf reader her writing career has perhaps seemed to lack focus, being broken into three areas of concentration. After fan involvement in the Star Trek OPEN UNIVERSE, she began publishingsf with the first of her collaborations with Jacqueline LICHTENBERG, First Channel (1980), a volume in the latter's Sime/Gen sequence; though thisand Channel's Destiny (1982) and Zelerod's Doom (1986) are worthy companions to Lichtenberg's solo efforts, JL was perceived as the junior partner in the enterprise, a perception modified by the publication of her solo venture in the sequence, Ambrov Keon (1986). Her second area of concentration was the Savage Empire series of fantasies concerning MAGIC: Savage Empire (1981), Dragon Lord of the Savage Empire (1982), Captives ofthe Savage Empire (1984), Flight to the Savage Empire (1986) with Winston A. Howlett, Sorcerers of the Frozen Isles (1986), Wulfston's Odyssey: ATale of the Savage Empire (1987) with Howlett, and Empress Unborn (1988). It is with her third focus, novels written for STAR TREK and STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, that she has become perhaps most identified: Full Moon Rising * (1976 chap), The Night of the Twin Moons * (1976), Epilogue, Part 1 * (1979 chap) and Epilogue, Part 2 * (1979 chap), Jean Lorrah's Sarek Collection * (coll 1980), The Vulcan Academy Murders * (1984) and The IDIC Epidemic * (1988) are contributions to Star Trek proper, and Survivors * (1989) and Metamorphosis * (1990) contributions to Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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