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About the author

Jacqueline Lichtenberg was born in 1942, three months after Pearl Harbor. She grew up in the fifties with all the potentials of nuclear power and all the sf novels of the horrors of mutation. With a degree in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley, she worked abroad for a while, then got. married and settled down to raise children and write sf novels.

She won early acclaim for her Star Trek fan fiction, the Kraith Series, with a nomination for the Best Fan Writer Hugo, and was primary author of the Bantam paperback, Star Trek Lives! as well as the founder of the Star Trek Welcommittee.

At the same time she was selling stories in an sf universe of her own, Sime/Gen. The second novel to be published, Unto Zeor, Forever, won the 1978 Galaxy Award for spirituality in science fiction. In addition to the three fan-originated amateur magazines dedicated to Sime/Gen, there are now eight novels in the universe, three co-authored with Jean Lorrah, and one Jean Lorrah original. Jacqueline plans many more books in this universe.

Her FIRST LIFEWAVE universe was the result of editorial interest in something other than Sime/Gen, as was the current DUSHAU TRILOGY, and she would like to work in several other universes, as well as trying her hand at television writing.

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Currently, she runs the Science Fiction Writers of America Speakers' Bureau, and is the one to contact to hire an sf writer to lecture to a group. In her spare time she gives tarot and writing workshops, attends Star Trek and sf conventions, and pursues studies in subjects such as vampires, Arthurian legend, astrology, Star Trek, and Doctor Who. She serves on the Board of Directors of the North American Time Festivals, Inc., which put on Doctor Who conventions, but she has had to put aside many fan activities in order to keep up with her book contracts.