Julia Ecklar
Encyclopedia
Julia Ecklar is a John W. Campbell Award–winning science fiction
author and a singer and writer of filk music
who recorded numerous albums in the Off Centaur label in the early 1980s, including Minus Ten and Counting
, Horse-Tamer's Daughter, and Genesis. Her Divine Intervention
album released in 1986 was the first filk genre release to combine the lyrical elements with orchestral and rock arrangements.
Julia is recording a new album, tentatively titled "Indistinguishable from Magic", produced by Michael Moricz
for the writing team formed by Ecklar, Karen Rose Cercone, and Melissa Crandall for the 1992 Star Trek novel #60 Ice Trap. For all later L.A. Graf novels the writing team was a partnership between Ecklar and Cercone. L.A. Graf reportedly stands for Let's All Get Rich and Famous.
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
author and a singer and writer of filk music
Filk music
Filk is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction/fantasy fandom and a type of fan labor. The genre has been active since the early 1950s, and played primarily since the mid-1970s. The term predates 1955.-Definitions:As the Interfilk What Is Filk page demonstrates, there is...
who recorded numerous albums in the Off Centaur label in the early 1980s, including Minus Ten and Counting
Minus Ten and Counting
Minus Ten and Counting: Songs of the Space Age is an influential album of filk songs composed and performed by a variety of artists, released as a cassette tape in 1983 by Off Centaur Publications. It was the first anthology of space filk songs, and both inspired a flowering of performance of the...
, Horse-Tamer's Daughter, and Genesis. Her Divine Intervention
Divine Intervention
Divine intervention is a term for a miracle caused by God's/a god's active involvement in the human world.Divine Intervention may also refer to:*"Divine Intervention", a 1991 song on Matthew Sweet's album Girlfriend....
album released in 1986 was the first filk genre release to combine the lyrical elements with orchestral and rock arrangements.
Julia is recording a new album, tentatively titled "Indistinguishable from Magic", produced by Michael Moricz
L.A. Graf
L.A. Graf is a pseudonymPseudonym
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for the writing team formed by Ecklar, Karen Rose Cercone, and Melissa Crandall for the 1992 Star Trek novel #60 Ice Trap. For all later L.A. Graf novels the writing team was a partnership between Ecklar and Cercone. L.A. Graf reportedly stands for Let's All Get Rich and Famous.
as Julia Ecklar
- The Kobayashi MaruThe Kobayashi Maru (novel)The Kobayashi Maru is a science fiction novel by Julia Ecklar, based in the Star Trek universe.-Plot introduction:While stranded in a damaged shuttlecraft, Kirk, Sulu, Chekov, and Scotty recall their Starfleet Academy Command School experiences with the simulation scenario The Kobayashi...
(1989) Pocket BooksPocket BooksPocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books.- History :Pocket produced the first mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in America in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishing industry...
: Star Trek #47, ISBN ISBN 0-671-65817-4 - "The Music Box" (AnalogAnalog Science Fiction and FactAnalog Science Fiction and Fact is an American science fiction magazine. As of 2011, it is the longest running continuously published magazine of that genre...
, September 1989) - "Carmen Miranda and the Maracas of Death" (Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three, 1990 anthology, ISBN 0-671-69864-8)
- "Extra Ellies" (Analog, May 1990)
- "Burning Bridges" (Analog, November 1990)
- "A Sweet Disorder" (Analog, September 1991)
- Noah's Ark series
- "Blood Relations" (Analog, June 1992)
- "Ice Nights" (Analog, October 1992)
- "Tide of Stars" (Analog, January 1995)
- "The Human Animal" (Analog, April 1995)
- "Promised Lives" (Fantasy & Science FictionThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science FictionThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a digest-size American fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House and then by Fantasy House. Both were subsidiaries of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications, which took over as publisher in 1958. Spilogale, Inc...
, September 1993) - ReGenesisRegenesis (novel)Regenesis is a science fiction novel by American science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh set in her Alliance-Union universe. It is a sequel to Cherryh's 1988 Hugo award-winning science fiction novel, Cyteen, and was published in hardcover by DAW Books in January 2009...
(1995) Ace BooksAce BooksAce Books is the oldest active specialty publisher of science fiction and fantasy books. The company was founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn, and began as a genre publisher of mysteries and westerns...
, ISBN 0-441-00189-0 - "Thylacine Dream" (Otherwere: Stories of Transformation, 1996 anthology) ISBN 0-441-00363-X
as L.A. Graf
- Ice Trap (July 1992) Star Trek #60, ISBN 0-671-78068-9
- Death Count (November 1992) Star Trek #62, ISBN 0-671-79322-5
- Firestorm (January 1994) Star Trek #68, ISBN 0-671-86588-9
- Traitor Winds (June 1994) Star Trek #70, ISBN 0-671-86913-2
- Caretaker (February 1995) Star Trek: VoyagerStar Trek: VoyagerStar Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. Set in the 24th century from the year 2371 through 2378, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager, which becomes stranded in the Delta Quadrant 70,000 light-years from Earth while...
#1, ISBN 0-671-51914-X - Extreme Prejudice (March 1995) Alien Nation #7, ISBN 0-671-79570-8
- Time's Enemy (August 1996) Star Trek: DS9 #16, ISBN 0-671-65817-4
- Armageddon Sky (September 1997) Star Trek: Day of Honor #2, ISBN 0-671-00675-4
- War Dragons (June 1998) Star Trek: The Captain's Table #1, ISBN 0-671-01463-3
- "Reflections" (The Lives of Dax, 1999 anthology) ISBN 0-671-02840-5
- Rough TrailsRough TrailsRough Trails is a Star Trek: New Earth novel written by L.A. Graf.-Synopsis:A vital colony, needed to support the eventual expansion of the Federation, is suffering problems. The home planet is ravaged by natural disasters. Alien threats endanger the lives of everyone due to greed for the mineral...
(July 2000) Star Trek: New EarthStar Trek: New EarthStar Trek: New Earth is a series of Star Trek novels published by Pocket Books in the United States, as part of Pocket’s Star Trek: The Original Series line. Based on the titular TV series created by Gene Roddenberry, New Earth was created by Pocket editor John J...
Book Three, ISBN 0-671-86913-2 - The Janus Gate (October 2002 omnibus) ISBN 0-7394-2854-3
- Present Tense (June 2002) ISBN 0-671-03635-1
- Future Imperfect (June 2002) ISBN 0-671-03636-X
- Past Prologue (July 2002) ISBN 0-7434-4596-1
Discography
- Minus Ten and CountingMinus Ten and CountingMinus Ten and Counting: Songs of the Space Age is an influential album of filk songs composed and performed by a variety of artists, released as a cassette tape in 1983 by Off Centaur Publications. It was the first anthology of space filk songs, and both inspired a flowering of performance of the...
(contributor) - Traveller (re-released on CD in 2006)
- Genesis (out-of-print)
- Divine Intervention (Prometheus Music, www.prometheus-music.com)
- Walkabout (Dodeka Records)
- Balance (DAG Productions, www.filk.com)
- Horsetamer's Daughter (Off Centaur PublicationsOff Centaur PublicationsOff Centaur Publications was the first "commercial" filk label. It was founded in 1980 by Teri Lee, Jordin Kare, and Catherine Cook. For a short time, Off Centaur produced high quality recordings of some of filk's best performers, and changed the course of filk music.Like many other filk labels...
, 1983) - A Wolfrider's Reflections (Warp GraphicsWaRP GraphicsWaRP Graphics, later Warp Graphics, is an alternative comics publisher best known for creating and being the original publisher of the Elfquest comic book series. It was created and incorporated in 1977 by Wendy and Richard Pini. The company title is an acronym formed from the founding couple's...
, 1987)
Pegasus Awards
- Best Female Filker 1984
- Best Performer 1987
- Best Writer/Composer 1990
- Best Literature Song 1990: Daddy's Little Girl
- Best War/Vengeance Song 1991: Temper of Revenge
- Best Filk Song 1992: God Lives on Terra
- Best Sorcery Song 1997: The Dark is Rising (with Susan Cooper)
- Best Classic Filk Song 2004: Ladyhawke!
External links
- Prometheus Music - Divine Intervention Downloadable MP3s and streaming tracks from Julia's album
- Another picture of Julia Ricia Mainhardt Agency
- Julia's LiveJournal Focuses on her graduate education and interest in animal behavior.