Jiles, Paulette
Entry updated 18 July 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1943-2025) US broadcasting worker and author who also lived in Canada and Mexico; best known for historical fiction with US Civil War and Old West settings (see Westerns). Her sf novels are The Late Great Human Road Show (1986), a Post-Holocaust tale exploring (not without gentle Humour) the aftermath of a nuclear Disaster in Toronto; and Lighthouse Island (2013), set in a Dystopian and drought-plagued US some 200 years hence. Jiles eschews the condescension so often associated with Mainstream Writers of SF, and indeed writes as a genre aficionado: The Late Great Human Road Show is dedicated to a named "fellow science fiction freak". [DRL]
Paulette Kay Jiles
born Salem, Missouri: 4 April 1943
died San Antonio, Texas: 8 July 2025
works (selected)
- The Late Great Human Road Show (Vancouver, British Columbia: Talonbooks, 1986) [pb/Horst Siegler]
- Lighthouse Island (New York: HarperCollins/William Morrow, 2013) [hb/]
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