Aikin, Jim
Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.
Working name of US author James Douglas Aikin (1948- ), most of whose books are technical manuals for producing electronic music. His first sf novel, Walk the Moons Road (1985), gives operatic colour to a moderately intricate Planetary Romance featuring Aliens, humans, seas, Politics and Sex on a planet which is not Earth. His second novel, The Wall at the Edge of the World (1993), more ambitiously sets its protagonist – a non-Telepath in a Post-Holocaust society – the task of reconciling his home culture with that of the "wild" women who live in the hinterlands. The self-published Leafstone Saga tetralogy opening with The Leafstone Shield (2018) is Fantasy. [JC]
James Douglas Aikin
born 1948
works
series
Leafstone Saga
- The Leafstone Shield (place not given: Jim Aikin, 2018) [Leafstone Saga: pb/Karri Klawiter]
- The Rainbow Tree (place not given: Jim Aikin, 2018) [Leafstone Saga: pb/Karri Klawiter]
- The Heartsong Fountain (place not given: Jim Aikin, 2018) [Leafstone Saga: pb/Karri Klawiter]
- The Firepearl Chalice (place not given: Jim Aikin, 2018) [Leafstone Saga: pb/Karri Klawiter]
individual titles
- Walk the Moons Road (New York: Del Rey, 1985) [pb/Ralph McQuarrie]
- The Wall at the Edge of the World (New York: Ace Books, 1993) [pb/John Jude Palencar]
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