Occupation Physician, writer Period 1912–1924 Name John Giesy | Nationality American Genre Speculative fiction Role Physician | |
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Died September 8, 1947, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Movies The Matrimaniac, The Kaiser's Shadow Books Palos of the Dog Star Pack, Jason - Son of Jason, The Mouthpiece of Zitu, The House of Invisible Bondage, The Complete Cabalistic Similar People Octavus Roy Cohen, Roy William Neill, Paul Powell, John Emerson, Anita Loos | ||
John Ulrich Giesy (J.U. Giesy) born August 6, 1877 near Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, USA, died September 8, 1947 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, was an American physician, novelist and author. He was one of the early writers in the Sword and Planet genre, with his Jason Croft series. He collaborated with Junius B. Smith on many of his stories.
Career
Robert Weinberg's website described the series of stories starring Jason Croft as "[o]ne of the most popular scientific romance trilogies published in All-Story Weekly magazine of the first quarter of the 20th century." Giesy also wrote for other pulp magazines such as Argosy, Adventure and Weird Tales. Giesy's 1915 novel All For His Country is a story of a future invasion of the US by the Japanese. Because All For His Country depicts Japanese-Americans living in California helping the invasion, some critics have cited it as an example of the anti-Japanese racism that ultimately resulted in the Internment of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor.
Giesy lived in Salt Lake City where he met Junius B. Smith, with whom he co-authored a large number of stories, including those featuring the occult detective Semi-Dual.