Talk:Julian May

message: Why are there links to "Jesus of Montreal" and "French Canadians"? --SigPig 12:40, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I questioned this (from the other end) here a while back. The connection is beyond tenuous in my opinion--May "covers religion and French-Canadian culture"--but I didn't feel like disputing it.· rodii · 01:18, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

text: I just came to ask exactly the same question. Since three other people have already commented here, I have been bold and zapped them.  Telsa (talk) 17:37, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "See Also" items

message: It would be nice if there were a source for May's birth name.  A comment in A Pliocene Companion suggests obliquely that it may be Julia Majewski.  (She says in an interview that the Saga character Claude Majewski "has the old family name", but that leaves it unclear whether Majewski was her family name, or changed by an ancestor, or perhaps even her mother's maiden name.)  Are their any reliable sources for this?  121a0012 15:57, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Aha... Google Book Search shows me a snippet (no preview available) indicating that her parents were Matthew M. May (born Majewski) and Julia Feilen May.  None of the snippets include enough text to determine whether "Julian May" is a pseudonym or her birth name.  There is a published bibliography which includes a biography; I've read this in libraries but don't have a copy of my own.  121a0012 (talk) 07:16, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the bibliography, Julian May was known as Judy May, but it doesn't specify if this is just a nickname.  121a0012 (talk) 02:47, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Good sleuthing, 121a0012. I recall hearing or reading of the Majewski reference too. What book did you find the snippet (during search - Google search?) in? Can this be cited with phrasing which indicates its source clearly enough even if the page itself is not available for free viewing? And do you recall the name or author of the biography you read in the library? Pandelver (talk) 11:37, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The bibliography is the one that's now cited in the article.  I don't recall exactly where I saw the information about her parents; it may have come from the same publication, or it may have come from one of the capsule-biography reference books that used to exist (such as Something about the Author).  121a0012 (talk) 04:22, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth name 

message: It is very confusing to simply state that Julian May, under the pseudonym Ian Thorne, wrrote:
The Blob (1982)
The Deadly Mantis (1982).
It Came from Outer Space (1982)
Frankenstein Meets Wolfman (1981)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1981)
The Mummy (1981)
Godzilla (1977)
Frankenstein (1977)
Dracula (1977)
My first thought when glancing at this list was "Oh, wow! Julian May wrote "The Blob" and "It Came from Outerspace!" But then the list also includes other works by well known authors, such as "Frankenstein" and "Dracula." Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein" and Bram Stoker wrote "Dracula.'
So, next based on the dates, I thought, "Maybe Julian May wrote the screenplays. Still pretty cool," but I checked imdb.com and found out she didn't. For example, Theodore Simonson and Kay Linaker wrote the screenplay for The Blob (1958), based om an idea by Irvine H. Millgate."
After further research I learned that Julian May/Ian Thorn adapted the movies into short stories or novellas. These books appear to be under 50 pages in length and contain images from the respective movies.
See:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/45352.Ian_Thorne
This article should make it clear either in the article's text, or in the list that they are adaptations of the movies. For example:
The Blob (1982, based on the 1958 movie)
The Deadly Mantis (1982, based on the 1957 movie.
Or
Works by Ian Thorne
Adaptations of / Books based on the Classic Horror movies:
Amazon calls them "novelizations" or "story books." See:
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Episode-Phantom-Storybook/dp/0375800093/ref=sr_1_36
12:02, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Works by Ian Thorne"