Juanita Coulson is an American science fiction

Science fiction

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 and fantasy

Fantasy

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 writer, active fan

Science fiction fandom

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 and fanzine editor

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. She is also widely known in filk music circles since the 1950s for her singing

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 and songwriting; she has been nominated for several Pegasus Awards for her filking. For thirty-three years, she co-edited the science fiction fanzine Yandro

Yandro

Yandro was an influential science fiction fanzine published from 1953-1986 by Buck and Juanita Coulson. Over that period, they published 259 issues, the final issue not being distributed until 1991. Yandros content covered a broad spectrum of topics...

with her husband "Buck" (Robert Coulson

Robert Coulson

Robert Stratton "Buck" Coulson was an American science fiction writer, well-known fan, filk song writer, fanzine editor and bookseller from Indiana....

). Yandro

Yandro

Yandro was an influential science fiction fanzine published from 1953-1986 by Buck and Juanita Coulson. Over that period, they published 259 issues, the final issue not being distributed until 1991. Yandros content covered a broad spectrum of topics...

was nominated for a Hugo Award

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 every year from 1958–1967; it won the award in 1965, thus making Coulson one of the very first women editors to be so honored.

Her first novel, Crisis on Cheiron, came out in 1967. During her writing career, she has collaborated with other authors such as Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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. One of her better-known novel series is the Children of the Stars books. Several of her novels concern the exploitation of "primitive" intelligent species or First contact

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Coulson is the fan guest of honor for the 2010 NASFiC

North American Science Fiction Convention

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, ReConStruction

ReConStruction

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Novels

• Crisis on Cheiron (1967)
• The Singing Stones (1968)
• Door into Terror (1972)
• The Secret of Seven Oaks (1972)
• Stone of Blood (1975)
• Unto the Last Generation (1975)
• Space Trap (1976)
• Fear Stalks the Bayou (1976)
• Dark Priestess (1977)
• The Web of Wizardry (Krantin Book 1) (1978)
• Fire of the Andes (1979)
• The Death God's Citadel (Krantin Book 2) (1980)
• Children of the Stars series
  • Tomorrow's Heritage (Book 1) (1981)
  • Outward Bound (Book 2) (1982)
  • Legacy of Earth (Book 3) (1989)
  • The Past of Forever (Book 4) (1989)
• Star Sister (1990)
• Shadow over Scorpio (2004)

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