John Ulrich Giesy

John Ulrich Giesy (August 6, 1877 – September 8, 1947) 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.^[1] He collaborated with Junius B. Smith on many of his stories.

Giesy was born near Chillicothe,^[2] Ross County, Ohio,^[3] USA.

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."^[4] 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.^[5] 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.^[6] 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.

• Palos of the Dog Star Pack (All-Story Magazine, July–August 1918)
• The Mouthpiece of Zitu (All-Story Weekly, July–August 1919)
• Jason, Son of Jason (Argosy All-Story, April–May 1921)

(all written with Junius B. Smith) The Semi-Dual series includes:^[7]

• "The Occult Detector" (The Cavalier, February–March 1912)
• "House of Invisible Bondage" (All-Story Weekly, 1926)
• "Black and White" (1920)
• "The Black Butterfly" (1918)
• "Box 991" (1916)
• "The Curse of Quetzal" (1914)
• "The Compass in the Sky" (People's Magazine May 1917)
• "The Ghost of a Name" (The Cavalier December 20, 1913)
• "The Green Goddess" (Argosy Jan 31, Feb 7, Feb 14, February 21, 1931)
• "The House of the Ego" The Cavalier Sep 20, Sep 27, October 4, 1913
• "House of the Hundred Lights" All-Story Weekly May 22, May 29, 1920
• "The Ivory Pipe" All-Story Weekly Sep 20, Sep 27, October 4, 1919
• "The Killer" All-Story Weekly Apr 7, April 14, 1917
• "The Ledger of Life" (1934)
• "The Master Mind" The Cavalier January 25, 1913
• "The Opposing Venus" (1923)
• "Poor Little Pigeon" (1924)
• "The Purple Light" The Cavalier Oct 5, Oct 12, October 19, 1912
• "Rubies of Doom" The Cavalier Jul 5, July 12, 1913
• "The Significance of the High "D”" The Cavalier Mar 9, Mar 16, March 23, 1912
• "Snared" All-Story Weekly Dec 18, December 25, 1915
• "Solomon's Decision" (1917)
• "The Stars Were Looking" Top-Notch July 1, 1918
• "Stars of Evil" (1919)
• "The Storehouse of Past Events" People's Favorite Magazine February 10, 1918
• "The Unknown Quantity" All-Story Weekly Aug 25, Sep 1, September 8, 1917
• "The Web of Circumstance" All Around Magazine Nov 1916
• "The Web of Destiny" (1915)
• "The Wistaria Scarf" The Cavalier Jun 1, Jun 8, June 15, 1912
• "The Wolf of Erlik" (1921)
• "The Woolly Dog" Argosy All-Story Weekly March 23, 1929

• "Indegestible Dog Biscuits" (1915)
• "Blind Man's Buff" (1920)
• "Zapt's Repulsive Paste" (1919)
• "The Wicked Flea" (1925)

• All for His Country (1915)

• Physician writer

• John Ulrich Giesy at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• John Ulrich Giesy at the FictionMags Index
• John Ulrich Giesy Archived November 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at the Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition
• John Ulrich Giesy at Locus Magazine's Index to Science Fiction
• John Ulrich Giesy at Fantastic Fiction

• Works by John Ulrich Giesy at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Works by J. U. Giesy at Project Gutenberg
• Works by John Ulrich Giesy at Faded Page (Canada)
• John Ulrich Giesy at Project Gutenberg of Australia
• Works by or about John Ulrich Giesy at the Internet Archive