Jean Lorrah Books In Order
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Savage Empire | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dragon Lord of the Savage Empire | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Captives of the Savage Empire | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flight to Savage Empire | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sorcerers of the Frozen Isles | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wulfston's Odyssey | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Empress Unborn | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Nessie Books
Nessie and the Living Stone | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nessie and the Viking Gold | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nessie and the Celtic Maze | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Sime/Gen Books
House Of Zeor | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
House of Zeor: Sime Gen, Book One | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unto Zeor, Forever | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unto Zeor, Forever: Sime Gen, Book Two | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
First Channel | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Channel's Destiny | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mahogany Trinrose | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rensime | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zelerod's Doom | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sime~Gen | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Personal Recognizance | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mahogany Trinrose: Sime Gen, Book Four | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Sime~Gen: Clear Spring Chronicles Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Full Moon Rising | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Night of the Twin Moons | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood Will Tell | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Star Trek: The Next Generation (Numbered) Books
Publication Order of Star Trek: TOS (Numbered) Books
Star Trek: The Motion Picture | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Entropy Effect | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Klingon Gambit | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Covenant of the Crown | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Prometheus Design | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Abode of Life | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Triangle | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Fire | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Web of the Romulans | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
La telaraña de los romulanos | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mutiny on the Enterprise | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wounded Sky | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Trellisane Confrontation | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Corona | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Reflection | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tears of the Singers | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Vulcan Academy Murders | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Uhura's Song | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadow Lord | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ishmael | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Killing Time | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dwellers in the Crucible | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pawns and Symbols | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mindshadow | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crisis on Centaurus | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Demons | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chain of Attack | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deep Domain | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dreams of the Raven | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bloodthirst | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The IDIC Epidemic | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Nexus | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Timetrap | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Three-Minute Universe | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Nexus | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vulcan's Glory | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Double, Double | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Home is the Hunter | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Enemy Unseen | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghost-Walker | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Renegade | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Legacy | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rift | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Faces of Fire | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ice Trap | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sanctuary | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Count | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shell Game | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Starship Trap | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Windows on a Lost World | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From the Depths | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Great Starship Race | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Firestorm | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Patrian Transgression | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crossroad | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Better Man | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fearful Summons | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
First Frontier | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Captain's Daughter | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twilight's End | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rings of Tautee | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Joy Machine | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mudd in Your Eye | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mind Meld | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Heart of the Sun | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Assignment: Eternity | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vulcan's Heart | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Across the Universe | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Name of Honor | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Constellations | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Disinherited | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Children of Kings | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cast No Shadow | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Star Trek: The Next Generation (Original) Books
Metamorphosis | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vendetta | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reunion | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Imzadi | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil's Heart | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Who Killed Captain Kirk? | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Mirror | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Q-Squared | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crossover | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kahless | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ship of the Line | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best and the Brightest | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Planet X | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Imzadi II: Triangle | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I, Q | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Valiant | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Immortal Coil | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Hard Rain | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Battle of Betazed | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Do Comets Dream? | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death in Winter | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Resistance | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sky's the Limit | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Q & A | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Before Dishonor | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Greater Than the Sum | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Indistinguishable from Magic | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Stuff of Dreams | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Light Fantastic | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Q are Cordially Uninvited... | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Takedown | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Headlong Flight | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hearts and Minds | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Available Light | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadows Have Offended | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Star Trek: Coda: Book 2: The Ashes of Tomorrow | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Smart Pop Books
Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stepping through the Stargate: Science, Archaeology and the Military in Stargate SG1 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What Would Sipowicz Do? Race, Rights and Redemption in NYPD Blue | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Anthology at the End of the Universe: Leading Science Fiction Authors on Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Finding Serenity: Anti-heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives on the H. G. Wells Classic | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Navigating the Golden Compass: Religion, Science & Daemonology in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alias Assumed: Sex, Lies And SD-6 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Farscape Forever! Sex, Drugs and Killer Muppets | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flirting With Pride And Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives On The Original Chick Lit Masterpiece | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth and Religion in C. S. Lewis' Chronicles | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
King Kong Is Back! An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous Ape! | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Totally Charmed | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mapping the World of Harry Potter | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man from Krypton: A Closer Look at Superman | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Star Wars on Trial | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Battle for Azeroth | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Getting Lost | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Boarding the Enterprise | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
James Bond in the 21st Century: Why We Still Need 007 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Investigating CSI: Inside the Crime Labs of Las Vegas, Miami and New York | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
So Say We All: An Unauthorized Collection of Thoughts and Opinions on Battlestar Galactica | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Earth's Last Days | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Literary Cash: Unauthorized Writings Inspired by the Legendary Johnny Cash | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Webslinger: Unauthorized Essays On Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Halo Effect: An Unauthorized Look at the Most Successful Video Game of All Time | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mind-Rain | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Through the Wardrobe | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A New Dawn: Your Favorite Authors on Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Secrets of the Dragon Riders: Your Favorite Authors on Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle: Completely Unauthorized | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Secrets of the Dragon Riders | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
You Do Not Talk About Fight Club: I Am Jack's Completely Unauthorized Essay Collection | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Vampire's Dilemma | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fear and Courage: Fourteen Writers Explore Sime~Gen | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jean Lorrah is an American fantasy and science fiction author. Over her long career she has authored seventeen novels and several short stories, many of which were the result of collaborations with other authors. She was born in Canton, Ohio in 1938. Her full name is Dr. Jean Lorrah, as she received a PhD from Florida State University. She has remained an academic as well as a writer, through her position as an English professor at Murray State University in Kentucky. In 2007, she began a blog, titled “The House of Keon”, in which she describes herself as “a teacher and a writer, a pet owner, a cancer survivor (twice), and now a blogger”.
As a professor, Lorrah teaches university classes of all levels. She regularly teaches Freshman Composition and Humanities, but her specialties are History of the English Language, Medieval British Literature, and the Fantastic. Lorrah is a member of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA). She participates in their annual conferences as a contributing author. Lorrah views her role as a means through which to prepare young people for the job market. She believes that writing effectively is one of the most essential skills to gaining employment.
Lorrah enjoys travelling the world and documenting her experiences for her readers. Lorrah loves travelling so much that she travelled to Japan in 2007, despite still in recovery from a major surgery. She brought a walking stick and used it to support herself while hiking through the medieval Japanese monuments. Lorrah uses her travels to document and raise awareness about poverty and other social ailes. During her trip to India, she made many observations about the massive amounts of homeless people who call the streets of Mumbai home.
Lorrah dedicates much of her time outside of writing to charitable work. She is a member of a Relay for Life team called “The 8th Wonders”, whose members are all fellow cancer survivors. She is an animal lover who volunteers with her local Humane Society in Murray, Kentucky. Lorrah also conducts pet therapy at nursing homes, schools, and her university with her two cats, Dudley and Splotch.
Lorrah has produced a huge body of fiction work during her long career, including the Sime~Gen series. Lorrah coauthors this cult favorite with fellow fiction writer Jacqueline Lichtenberg. The Sime~Gen Universe depicts a future world where humankind is divided into two distinct subspecies. The Gen subspecies includes those who appear to be ordinary human beings but produce a type of life energy called selyn. The Sime subspecies includes beings with tentacled arms, who require selyn from the Gens to survive. Together the two subspecies give the series it’s name. If a Gen tries to resist having their selyn taken, they die. In this world, everyone is born the same, but become a Gen or a Sime during puberty. It makes no matter what species one’s parents are. Whether one turns into a Sime or a Gen is completely random; as such, many unfortunate examples of filicide and parenticide occur.
The two subspecies live in a world divided, each maintaining separate societies; except that the Simes raise Gens as captives, similar to farm animals, in order to harvest their life energy. However, there are Simes who are able to take selyn from resisting Gens without killing them. These Simes are known as “channels”. The discovery of these types of Simes leads to a fragile truce or unity between the subspecies. Many credit Lorrah and Lichtenberg with reinventing the vampire archetype in their Sime~Gen stories.
The Sime~Gen novel “First Channel” is equal parts comedy, tragedy, and love story. Released in 1980, this novel is set in Sime territory and revolves around two main characters who are childhood sweethearts. Rimon Farris and Kadi Morcot were born in Sime territory and grew up together dreaming of getting married and living happily ever after. However, at puberty Rimon becomes a Sime and Kadi becomes a Gen in a classic Shakespearean twist of fate. The two end up forging their own path in a community filled with other outcasts who subscribe to a religion that condemns the killing of Gens by Simes.
The next novel in the series was released just two years after “First Channel”. “Channel’s Destiny” details the life of Zeth Farris, an adolescent who grows up as the Sime~Gen truce is beginning to dissolve. Zeth is a Sime who befriends a Gen boy as he helps him recover from a serious injury. Zeth finds himself at the center of conflict as war emerges again. This novel takes a unique perspective, by showing the Sime~Gen universe through the eyes of young children. The Sime~Gen series includes 12 different novels and a couple short stories. The first was released in 1969 and the last novel was released in 2011, making Sime~Gen a series 40 years in the making.
Both by example and through her teaching career, Jean Lorrah is helping to craft the next generation of fiction writers. Her blog includes tips for the aspiring writer and she is never shy to provide insights on where she gets the inspiration for her works of fiction. Lorrah coauthors the children’s series “Nessie” with Lois Wickstrom. In an interview, she stated that the inspiration for this series came during a trip to Loch Ness, Scotland with Lois and Lois’s husband in 1995. During the trip, she discovered that there was a dearth of fiction depicting the Loch Ness monster and saw that there was a niche they could fill.
As evidenced through her work with Jacqueline Lichtenberg on the Sime~Gen series and with Lois Wickstrom on the “Nessie” series, Lorrah loves to collaborate with other fiction writers. In an interview, Lorrah stated that collaborating is “fun, but not really efficient” since it takes about twice as long for two people to write one book as it does for one person to write a book alone. Despite this inefficiency, Lorrah believes that “you end up with a better book because the ideas don’t belong to either one of you, but to both of you”.
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