Jo Clayton

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Patricia Josephine "Jo" Clayton (born February 15, 1939 in Modesto , California , † February 13, 1998 in Portland ) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy .

Life

Clayton grew up in simple circumstances on a farm. She attended the University of California at Berkeley ; she graduated summa cum laude in English literature from the University of Southern California in 1963 . She worked as a teacher for years, starting in Bell , a small industrial town near Los Angeles . In 1969 she converted to the Catholic Church and joined the Sisters of Notre Dame of Mount Carmel , a teaching congregation in New Orleans . At this time, Clayton began to write in addition to her job as a teacher. Just before she was due to make her profession , she left the community. She gave up her job as a teacher and lived on the income from her writing work.

After being robbed several times, life in New Orleans seemed too dangerous to her and she moved to Portland, Oregon in 1983 . Jo Clayton died two days before her 59th birthday of a form of bone marrow cancer that she had battled for a year and a half. While in hospital, she wrote the second part of the Drums of Chaos trilogy and started the third (it was finished by Kevin Andrew Murphy ).

Patricia Jo Clayton was the author of a total of 35 books and a large number of short stories. In total, your books have sold over 1,250,000 times. Her novels, which are located on the border between science fiction and fantasy, are usually not particularly original in terms of motifs and plot, but often impressive in the figure drawing, especially the representation of strong female characters.

The best known are the novels of the Diadem series, a space opera about a mysterious artifact, the aforementioned "Diadem". The wearer of the diadem, the girl Aleytys, is a healer who can activate special powers with the help of the diadem. In search of her mother's super race, she experiences numerous adventures and comes into all sorts of dangerous and humiliating situations, including captivity and slavery, from which she can free herself again and again with the help of her powers.

In 1977 she received the Phoenix Award for her life's work .

bibliography

Diadem series
  • Diadem from the Stars (1977)
  • Lamarchus (1978)
  • Irsud (1978)
  • Maeve (1979)
  • Star Hunters (1980)
  • The Nowhere Hunt (1981)
  • Ghosthunt (1983)
  • The Snares of Ibex (1984)
  • Quester's Endgame (1986)
    • English: The legacy of the Vryhh . Moewig Science Fiction # 3820, 1988, ISBN 3-8118-3820-2 .
Duel of Sorcery
  • Moongather (1982)
    • English: Under the magical moons . Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5787, 1984, ISBN 3-426-05787-5 .
  • Moonscatter (1983)
    • English: The path of the magical moons . Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5795, 1985, ISBN 3-426-05795-6 .
  • Changer's Moon (1985)
Skeen trilogy (part of the Diadem cycle)
  • Skeen's Leap (1986)
  • Skeen's Return (1987)
  • Skeen's Search (1987)
Brann cycle
  • Drinker of Souls (1986)
  • Blue Magic (1988)
    • German: Blue Magic . Translated by Horst Pukallus. Heyne SF&F # 4648, 1990, ISBN 3-453-03913-0 .
  • A Gathering of Stones (1989)
    • German: Collecting the Stones . Translated by Horst Pukallus. Heyne SF&F # 4649, 1990, ISBN 3-453-04282-4 .
Shadith's Quest (part of the Diadem cycle)
  • Shadowplay (1990)
  • Shadowspear (1990)
  • Shadowkill (1991)
Wild Magic
  • Wild Magic (1991)
  • Wildfire (1992)
  • The Magic Wars (1993)
Dancers trilogy (continuation of the duel of the magician trilogy)
  • Dancer's Rise (1993)
  • Serpent Waltz (1994)
  • Dance Down the Stars (1994)
Shadowsong trilogy
  • Fire in the Sky (1995)
    • German: fire in the sky . Translated by Walter Brumm. Heyne SF&F # 9064, 2000, ISBN 3-453-16222-6 .
  • The Burning Ground (1995)
    • German: Brennende Erde . Translated by Walter Brumm. Heyne SF&F # 9065, 2000, ISBN 3-453-16226-9 .
  • Crystal Heat (1996)
    • English: Guardian of the Crystals. Translated by Walter Brumm. Heyne SF&F # 9066, 2000, ISBN 3-453-16230-7 .
The Drums of Chaos
  • Drum Warning (1996)
  • Drum Calls (1997)
  • Drum into Silence (2002, with Kevin Andrew Murphy)
Individual publications
  • A Bait of Dreams (short stories, 1985)
  • Shadow of the Warmaster (novel, 1988)
Short stories

1978:

1979:

  • A Bait of Dreams (in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1979 )
    • German: Traumköder. Translated from Keto by Waberer. In: Birgit Reß-Bohusch (Ed.): Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazin 5th episode. Heyne SF&F # 3735, 1980, ISBN 3-453-30638-4 .

1980:

  • Southwind My Mother (in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1980 )
    • German: Südwind, my mother. Translated from Keto by Waberer. In: Birgit Reß-Bohusch (Ed.): Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine 9th episode. Heyne SF&F # 3789, 1981, ISBN 3-453-30690-2 .
  • Companioning (in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1980 )
    • German: comrade. Translated from Keto by Waberer. In: Birgit Reß-Bohusch (Ed.): Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazin 13th episode. Heyne SF&F # 3873, 1982, ISBN 3-453-30759-3 .

1982:

  • Nightwork (1982, in: Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Ed.): Amazons II )

1985:

  • Currents (1985, in: Jo Clayton: A Bait of Dreams )
  • Interlude Among the Shaborn (1985, in: Jo Clayton: A Bait of Dreams )
  • Old Acquaintances and New (1985, in: Jo Clayton: A Bait of Dreams )
  • Team Venture (1985, in: Susan Shwartz (Ed.): Moonsinger's Friends )

1990:

  • Change (in: Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy, Spring 1990 )

1993:

  • Arakney's Web (in: Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy, Winter 1993 )
    • English: Arakneys Netz. Translated by Ronald Böhme. In: Marion Zimmer Bradley and Elisabeth Waters (Eds.): Marion Zimmer Bradley's New Fantasy Magazine 2. Heyne (General Series # 13204), 2002, ISBN 3-453-17744-4 .

1994:

  • Maggot's Feast (1994, in: Marion Zimmer Bradley (Ed.): Sword and Sorceress XI: An Anthology of Herotic Fantasy )
    • German: Madenmahl. Translated by Wolfgang F. Müller. In: Marion Zimmer Bradley (Ed.): Fairy Sister. Fischer, 1999, ISBN 3-596-13317-3 .
  • In a Yellow Dress (1994)

1995:

  • Dinner Music (in: Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy, Winter 1995 )
  • The Hero Trap (in: Science Fiction Age, January 1995 )
  • The Man Who Loved the River (1995, in: Jane Yolen (Ed.): Xanadu 3 )
  • The Ninth Expiation (in: Science Fiction Age, May 1995 )
  • Peeling the Heart (1995, in: Josepha Sherman (Ed.): Orphans of the Night )
  • Hallah's Choice (1995, in: Susan Shwartz and Martin H. Greenberg (Eds.): Sisters in Fantasy )
  • Bloodsong (in: Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy, Fall 1995 )
  • Potholes in the Road to Hell (1995, in: Adventures of Sword and Sorcery, Winter 1995–1996 )
  • The Prism of Memory (1995, in: Katharine Kerr and Martin H. Greenberg (Eds.): Enchanted Forests )

1996:

  • Pavanne for a Dead Pross (in: Realms of Fantasy, April 1996 )
  • Fox Maid's Travail (in: Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy, Summer 1996 )
  • Patience (1996, in: Marion Zimmer Bradley (Ed.): Sword and Sorceress XIII )
    • German: patience. Translated by Wolfgang F. Müller. In: Marion Zimmer Bradley (Ed.): Sun Sister. Fischer, 2000, ISBN 3-596-14533-3 .
  • Water Patterns (1996, in: Katharine Kerr and Martin H. Greenberg (Eds.): The Shimmering Door )

1997:

  • The Bone's Captive Bride (in: Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy, Winter 1997 )
  • Ghost Rot (1997, in: Jennifer Roberson (Ed.): Highwaymen: Robbers and Rogues )
  • Borrowed Light (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1997 )

1998:

  • Traps (1998, in: Martin H. Greenberg and Bruce D. Arthurs (Eds.): Olympus )
  • The Hour of the Sisters (1998, in: Nancy Kilpatrick and Thomas S. Roche (Eds.): In the Shadow of the Gargoyle )

2000:

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SURNAME Clayton, Jo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clayton, Patricia Josephine (full name); Clayton, Patricia Jo (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Modesto , California
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1998
Place of death Portland