(1957-    ) US author almost exclusively of fantasy as a solo author, though her collaborations with Anne McCaffrey – the Doona sequence, the Brainship sequence, and her contributions to the Planet Pirates sequence; for all titles see Checklist – intensify the fantasy tonality of initiating works by McCaffrey alone whose sf contours were relatively clear. [JC]

see also: Piers Anthony; Robert Asprin; Gamebook.

Jody Lynn Nye

born Chicago, Illinois: 5 July 1957

died

works (selected)

series

Crossroads Gamebooks

• Dragonharper (New York: Tor Books, 1987) [tie to Anne McCaffrey's Pern: Pern: in the publisher's Crossroads Adventure Gamebook series: pb/Doug Beekman]
• Encyclopedia of Xanth (New York: Tor Books, 1987) [tie to Piers Anthony's Xanth: in the publisher's Crossroads Adventure Gamebook series: pb/Doug Beekman]
• Dragonfire (New York: Tor Books, 1988) [tie to Anne McCaffrey's Pern: Pern: in the publisher's Crossroads Adventure Gamebook series: pb/Doug Beekman]
• Ghost of a Chance (New York: Tor Books, 1988) [tie to Piers Anthony's: Xanth: in the publisher's Crossroads Adventure Gamebook series: pb/David Cherry]

Doona

• Crisis on Doona (New York: Ace Books, 1992) with Anne McCaffrey [Doona: pb/Michael Herring]
• Treaty Planet (London: Orbit, 1994) with Anne McCaffrey [Doona: hb/Mark Harrison]
  • Treaty at Doona (New York: Ace Books, 1994) with Anne McCaffrey [vt of the above: Doona: pb/Michael Herring]
  • Doona (New York: Ace Books, 2004) with Anne McCaffrey [omni of the above two: Doona: pb/Michael Herring]

Brainship

• The Ship Who Won (New York: Baen Books, 1994) with Anne McCaffrey [Brainship: hb/Stephen Hickman]
• The Ship Errant (New York: Baen Books, 1996) [solo work in McCaffrey Shared World: Brainship: hb/Stephen Hickman]
  • The Ship Who Saved Worlds (New York: Baen Books, 2003) with Anne McCaffrey [anth/omni, combining the above two: Brainship: hb/Carol Heyer]

M.Y.T.H

• Myth Alliances (Decatur, Georgia: Meisha Merlin, 2003) with Robert Lynn Asprin [M.Y.T.H: hb/Michael Komarck]
• Myth-Told Tales (Decatur, Georgia: Meisha Merlin, 2003) with Robert Lynn Asprin [coll: M.Y.T.H: hb/Michael Komarck]
• Myth-Taken Identity (Decatur, Georgia: Meisha Merlin, 2004) with Robert Lynn Asprin [M.Y.T.H: hb/Phil Foglio]
• Class Dis-Mythed (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press, 2005) with Robert Lynn Asprin [M.Y.T.H: hb/Phil Foglio]
• Myth-Gotten Gains (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press, 2006) with Robert Lynn Asprin [M.Y.T.H: hb/Phil Foglio]
• Myth-Chief (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press, 2008) with Robert Lynn Asprin [M.Y.T.H: hb/Phil Foglio and Cheyenne Wright]
• Myth-Fortunes (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press, 2008) with Robert Lynn Asprin [M.Y.T.H: pb/]
• Robert Asprin's Myth Quoted (New York: Ace Books, 2012) [M.Y.T.H: pb/Walter Velez]
• Robert Asprin's Myth-Fits (New York: Ace Books, 2016) [M.Y.T.H: pb/Walter Velez]

An Unexpected Apprentice

• An Unexpected Apprentice (New York: Tor, 2007) [An Unexpected Apprentice: hb/Michael W Kaluta]
• A Forthcoming Wizard (New York: Tor, 2009) [An Unexpected Apprentice: hb/Michael W Kaluta]

View from the Imperium

• View from the Imperium (New York: Baen Books, 2011) [View from the Imperium: pb/David Mattingly]
• Fortunes of the Imperium (New York: Baen Books, 2014) [View from the Imperium: pb/David Mattingly]
• Rhythms of the Imperium (New York: Baen Books, 2015) [View from the Imperium: pb/David Mattingly]

individual titles

• The Death of Sleep (New York: Baen Books, 1990) with Anne McCaffrey [Planet Pirates: pb/Stephen Hickman]
  • Planet Pirates (New York: Baen Books, 1993) with Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon [anth/omni of the above with Sassinak (1990) and Generation Warriors (1991), both by McCaffrey and Moon: Planet Pirates: pb/Stephen Hickman]
• License Revoked (New York: Baen Books, 2001) with Robert Lynn Asprin [pb/Gary Ruddell]
• Dragons Deal (New York: Ace Books, 2010) with Robert Lynn Asprin [pb/Rob Johnson]
• Robert Asprin's Dragons Run (New York: Ace Books, 2013) [pb/Eric Fortune]
• Wishing on a Star (Rockville, Maryland: Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick, 2015) [anth: through inclusion of an associated story by Angelina Adams: in the publisher's The Stellar Guild series: pb/]
• Moon Beam (New York: Baen Books, 2017) with Travis S Taylor [hb/Dominic Harman]

collections and stories

• The Omega Egg (Part 13 of 17): The Search for Bob (no place given: Fictionwise, 2006) [ebook: chapter of multi-author Round-Robin novel: na/]

works as editor

• Launch Pad (Monument, Colorado: WordFire Press, 2014) with Mike Brotherton [anth: pb/]

nonfiction

• Piers Anthony's Visual Guide to Xanth (New York: Avon, 1989) with Piers Anthony [nonfiction: Xanth: pb/Darrell K Sweet]
• The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1989) with Anne McCaffrey [nonfiction: Pern: hb/Todd Cameron Hamilton]
  • The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern, Second Edition (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1997) with Anne McCaffrey [nonfiction: exp vt of the above: Pern: pb/Todd Cameron Hamilton]

links

• Jody Lynn Nye
• Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

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