Savarin, Julian Jay
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1950- ) Dominican-born musician and author, in the UK since his teens. His Lemmus trilogy – Lemmus One: Waiters on the Dance (1972), Lemmus Two: Beyond the Outer Mirr (1976) and Lemmus Three: Archives of Haven (coll of linked stories 1977) – is an expansive Space Opera in which GOD (the Galactic Organization and Dominions), run by a Forerunner civilization, experimentally settles Terra with people who will evolve in isolation (see Adam and Eve; Shaggy God Story). Explanations are offered for the Judeo-Christian tradition, the fall of Atlantis, etc. Arena (1979) involves folk from various times in a mighty struggle. Savarin afterwards turned to thrillers, though occasionally he moved into the fantastic, as with Starfire (2000), a Technothriller in which a Russian Scientist attempts to create, through Genetic Engineering, watchdog plants, and Summer of the Eagle (2005), in which a Mutant strain of DNA is developed with genocide in mind. [JC]
Julian Jay Savarin
born Commonwealth of Dominica: 1950
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Lemmus
- Lemmus One: Waiters on the Dance (London: Arlington Books, 1972) [Lemmus: hb/]
- Lemmus Two: Beyond the Outer Mirr (London: Corgi Books, 1976) [Lemmus: pb/Joe Petagno]
- Lemmus Three: Archives of Haven (London: Corgi Books, 1976) [coll of linked stories: Lemmus: pb/]
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