Jody Scott

Jody Scott (real name Joann Margaret Huguelet Scott Wood ; born January 13, 1923 in Chicago , Illinois ; died December 24, 2007 in Seattle , Washington ) was an American writer.

Her SF parody Passing for Human was the first volume in a trilogy and was translated into German under the title Fast wie ein Mensch . The second volume I, Vampire , is about the love story of the female vampire O'Blivion ( oblivion "forgetting"), protagonist of the first volume, with the alien Benaroya. The third volume Devil-May-Care was only published posthumously in 2016.

bibliography

The Benaroya Chronicles (novel trilogy)

• 1 Passing for Human (1977)
  • German: Almost like a human. Translated by Doris Heeger. Bastei Lübbe # 24008, 1980, ISBN 3-404-24008-X .
• 2 I, Vampires (1984)
• 3 Devil-May-Care (2016)

Novels

• Cure It With Honey (1952, also as I'll Get Mine , 1958, with George Leite)
• Down Will Come Baby (1968)

Short stories

• Go for Baroque (1961)
• The 2-D Problem (1965)
• The Origin of Species (1969, as Jody Scott Wood)
• Shirley Is No Longer with Us (1978)
• Cobwebs (1983)
• Closeness (1984)
• Honor (1986)
• The American Book of the Dead (1986)
• Mushroom Roulette (1987)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 364.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 874.
• John Clute , David Langford : Scott, Jody. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.

Web links

• Jody Scott in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Jody Scott at Open Library
• JodyScott.Info , official website (accessed July 30, 2018)
• Jody Scott , Facebook page
• Jody Scott in Fantastic Fiction (English)