Jody Lynn Nye
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Jody Lynn Nye is an American
science fiction
writer. She has frequently collaborated as a co-author or the author of a sequel.
Three of Nye's book series were "adrift" after Meisha Merlin Publishing
went out of business in 2007. She planned to continue one, the long-running MythAdventures
, after the 2008 death of its creator and her co-author Robert Asprin
. The mass-market publisher Ace Books
has commissioned two more volumes.
In 2008 she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University
Libraries.
.
Late in the eighties Nye wrote six companion books for the Dragonriders of Pern
series by Anne McCaffrey
and the Magic of Xanth
series by Piers Anthony
. The first four were "branching-path" gamebooks in the Crossroads Adventure series, two set on Pern and two in Xanth.
Then simultaneously November 1989, Ballantine Books
published The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern by Nye with McCaffrey and Avon Books published Piers Anthony's Visual Guide to Xanth by Nye and Anthony.
Todd Cameron Hamilton and James Clouse were the illustrators for both Guides, as Hamilton had been for Roger Zelazny's Visual Guide to Amber published by Avon one year earlier.
For the Pern guide, Nye explained in its introduction, her team (without Clouse) had visited McCaffrey two years earlier, for ten days (October 1987). In the living room Nye, editor Bill Fawcett (Nye's husband), illustrator Hamilton, and McCaffrey's son Todd Johnson
discussed Pern with its creator and Hamilton sketched under her direction. They produced "a companion volume to her work, intended to help you visualize the setting and background for her chronicles."
Before the Dragonlover's Guide was finished, McCaffrey and Nye were working together on a novel, presumably The Death of Sleep
(1990) in the Planet Pirates trilogy
. In the early 1990s they collaborated in three series based on McCaffrey stories from the 1960s and 1970s. Meanwhile McCaffrey completed five more Pern books, after which they revised the guide.
Late in the 1990s Nye began work with Robert Asprin
to extend the Myth Adventures series he had started in 1978. After his 2008 death she continued to write books they had planned.
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writer. She has frequently collaborated as a co-author or the author of a sequel.
Three of Nye's book series were "adrift" after Meisha Merlin Publishing
Meisha Merlin Publishing
Meisha Merlin Publishing was an independent publishing company founded in 1996 by former New York book editor Stephen Pagel and Kevin and Brian Murphy...
went out of business in 2007. She planned to continue one, the long-running MythAdventures
MythAdventures
MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series by Robert Lynn Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Nye continued the series with seven more books...
, after the 2008 death of its creator and her co-author Robert Asprin
Robert Asprin
Robert Lynn Asprin was an American science fiction and fantasy author and active fan, best known for his humorous MythAdventures and Phule's Company series.- Background :...
. The mass-market publisher Ace Books
Ace Books
Ace Books is the oldest active specialty publisher of science fiction and fantasy books. The company was founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn, and began as a genre publisher of mysteries and westerns...
has commissioned two more volumes.
In 2008 she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University
Northern Illinois University
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Libraries.
Career
Nye says that she "always told stories" to her younger brothers, cousins, and friends, and as a junior camp counselor. Her first published writings were technical articles on broadcasting in the magazine "Video Action" during the 1980s. She first wrote fiction for the "Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine game" and the Role-Aids line of game supplements published by Mayfair GamesMayfair Games
Mayfair Games is a publisher of board, card, and roleplaying games. They also license German-style board games and publish them in English throughout the world...
.
Late in the eighties Nye wrote six companion books for the Dragonriders of Pern
Dragonriders of Pern
Dragonriders of Pern is a science fiction series written primarily by the late American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey, who initiated it in 1967. Beginning 2003, her middle child Todd McCaffrey has written Pern novels, both solo and jointly with Anne. The series comprises 22 novels and several short...
series by Anne McCaffrey
Anne McCaffrey
Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award...
and the Magic of Xanth
Xanth
Xanth is a fantasy world created by author Piers Anthony for his Xanth series of novels, also known as The Magic of Xanth.-History:The name Xanth is in itself an unintentional pun, which matches the playful tone of the books...
series by Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth.Many of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best...
. The first four were "branching-path" gamebooks in the Crossroads Adventure series, two set on Pern and two in Xanth.
Then simultaneously November 1989, Ballantine Books
Ballantine Books
Ballantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine. It was acquired by Random House in 1973, which in turn was acquired by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and remains part of that company today. Ballantine's logo is a...
published The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern by Nye with McCaffrey and Avon Books published Piers Anthony's Visual Guide to Xanth by Nye and Anthony.
Todd Cameron Hamilton and James Clouse were the illustrators for both Guides, as Hamilton had been for Roger Zelazny's Visual Guide to Amber published by Avon one year earlier.
For the Pern guide, Nye explained in its introduction, her team (without Clouse) had visited McCaffrey two years earlier, for ten days (October 1987). In the living room Nye, editor Bill Fawcett (Nye's husband), illustrator Hamilton, and McCaffrey's son Todd Johnson
Todd McCaffrey
Todd J. McCaffrey is an Irish American author of science fiction best known for continuing the Dragonriders of Pern series in collaboration with his mother Anne McCaffrey.-Life:...
discussed Pern with its creator and Hamilton sketched under her direction. They produced "a companion volume to her work, intended to help you visualize the setting and background for her chronicles."
Before the Dragonlover's Guide was finished, McCaffrey and Nye were working together on a novel, presumably The Death of Sleep
The Death of Sleep
The Death of Sleep is a science fiction novel by Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn Nye.It is the second book in the Planet Pirates trilogy and continues the Ireta series initiated by McCaffrey in 1978.-Plot overview:...
(1990) in the Planet Pirates trilogy
Planet Pirates Series
Planet Pirates Series is a Science Fiction paperback book series created and written by author Anne McCaffrey beginning in 1978. An omnibus edition The Planet Pirates was published by, McCaffrey, Moon, & Nye in 1993.-Series:...
. In the early 1990s they collaborated in three series based on McCaffrey stories from the 1960s and 1970s. Meanwhile McCaffrey completed five more Pern books, after which they revised the guide.
Late in the 1990s Nye began work with Robert Asprin
Robert Asprin
Robert Lynn Asprin was an American science fiction and fantasy author and active fan, best known for his humorous MythAdventures and Phule's Company series.- Background :...
to extend the Myth Adventures series he had started in 1978. After his 2008 death she continued to write books they had planned.
Series
- Mythology
- Mythology 101 (1990)
- Mythology Abroad (1991)
- Higher Mythology (1993)
- Advanced Mythology (2001)
- Applied Mythology (2000) ; (An omnibus of books 1-3)
- MythAdventuresMythAdventuresMythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series by Robert Lynn Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Nye continued the series with seven more books...
- Myth-told Tales (2003) with Robert AsprinRobert AsprinRobert Lynn Asprin was an American science fiction and fantasy author and active fan, best known for his humorous MythAdventures and Phule's Company series.- Background :...
- Myth Alliances (2003) with Robert Asprin
- Myth-taken Identity (2004) with Robert Asprin
- Class Dis-Mythed (2005) with Robert Asprin
- Myth-Gotten Gains (2006) with Robert Asprin
- Myth-Chief (2008) with Robert Asprin
- Myth-Fortunes (2008) with Robert Asprin
- Dreamland
- Waking in Dreamland (1998)
- School of Light (1999)
- The Grand Tour (2000)
- Ireta (aka Dinosaur Planet, aka Planet Pirates)
- The Death of SleepThe Death of SleepThe Death of Sleep is a science fiction novel by Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn Nye.It is the second book in the Planet Pirates trilogy and continues the Ireta series initiated by McCaffrey in 1978.-Plot overview:...
(1990) with Anne McCaffreyAnne McCaffreyAnne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award...
- The Planet PiratesPlanet Pirates SeriesPlanet Pirates Series is a Science Fiction paperback book series created and written by author Anne McCaffrey beginning in 1978. An omnibus edition The Planet Pirates was published by, McCaffrey, Moon, & Nye in 1993.-Series:...
(1993) with Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth MoonElizabeth MoonElizabeth Moon is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Her novel The Speed of Dark won the 2003 Nebula Award.-Biography:...
; (omnibus edition includes The Death of Sleep)
- The Planet Pirates
- The Death of Sleep
- Doona
- Treaty at Doona (1994) with Anne McCaffreyAnne McCaffreyAnne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award...
- Crisis on Doona (1992) with Anne McCaffrey
- Treaty at Doona (1994) with Anne McCaffrey
- Taylor's Ark
- Taylor's Ark (1993)
- Medicine Show (1994)
- The Lady and the Tiger (2003)
- The Ship Who Sang (aka Brain and Brawn Ship)
- The Ship Who Won (1994) with Anne McCaffreyAnne McCaffreyAnne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award...
- The Ship Errant (1996)
- The Ship Who Saved the Worlds (2003) with Anne McCaffrey ; (includes The Ship who Won and The Ship Errant)
- The Ship Who Won (1994) with Anne McCaffrey
- RiverworldRiverworldRiverworld is a fictional planet and the setting for a series of science fiction books written by Philip José Farmer . Riverworld is an artificial environment where all humans are reconstructed. The books explore interactions of individuals from many different cultures and time periods...
- If the King Like Not the Comedy (1993)
- Crossroads Game Books
- Dragonharper (1987) ; set in the world of Pern
- The Encyclopedia of Xanth (1987) ; set in the world of Xanth
- Dragonfire (1988) ; set in the world of Pern
- Ghost of a Chance (1988) ; set in the world of Xanth
Novels
- The Magic Touch (1996)
- License Invoked (2001) with Robert AsprinRobert AsprinRobert Lynn Asprin was an American science fiction and fantasy author and active fan, best known for his humorous MythAdventures and Phule's Company series.- Background :...
- Strong-Arm Tactics (2005)
- An Unexpected Apprentice (2007)
- A Forthcoming Wizard (2009)
- View from the Imperium (2011)
Anthologies (As Editor)
- Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear (1996) ; (includes the short story What's the Magic Word?)
Others
- The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern (Ballantine, 1989), with Anne McCaffreyAnne McCaffreyAnne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award...
. Illustrated by Todd Cameron Hamilton and James Clouse. ISBN 0-345-35424-9. Second edition 1997, ISBN 0-345-41274-5. — Pern geography, society, flora, fauna, etc, including information not in the previously published fiction. - Piers Anthony's Visual Guide to Xanth (Harper, 1989), with Piers AnthonyPiers AnthonyPiers Anthony Dillingham Jacob is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth.Many of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best...
. Illustrated by Todd Cameron Hamilton and James Clouse. ISBN 0-380-75749-4
External links
- Jody Lynn Nye Home Page
- Myth Adventures.net, the official site for Myth-Information