Julian May

Julian May sprang into view in the 80's with her outstanding tetralogy, The Saga of the Pliocene Exile. This is truly classic science fiction, and should be on everyone's reading list. She followed it up with a series of prequels, the Milieu trilogy, whose basic plot line she'd evolved before writing the Pliocene Exile books; she may even have written much of them beforehand as well. Be that as it may, the Milieu trilogy was a disappointment, though it had its good bits; and Intervention, the novel she wrote to bridge the two, is quite good.

More recently, she's written an odd, semi-farcical science fiction trilogy that I rather like but found hard to take seriously.

The Plicene Exile and Related Books

• The Many-Colored Land

Reviews: 1 August 1999

• The Golden Torc

Reviews: 1 August 1999

• The Nonborn King

Reviews: 1 September 1999

• The Adversary

Reviews: 1 September 1999

• Intervention

Reviews: 1 September 1999

• Jack the Bodiless

Reviews: 1 September 1999

• Diamond Mask

Reviews: 1 September 1999

• Magnificat

Reviews: 1 September 1999

Asahel Frost

• Perseus Spur

Reviews: 1 August 1999, 1 July 2000

• Orion Arm

Reviews: 1 July 2000

• Sagittarius Whorl

Reviews: 1 April 2001