author
Sydney J. Van Scyoc
1939–2023
A thoughtful science fiction writer whose work ranged from short magazine fiction to richly imagined novels, she built a steady career in the field over several decades. She is especially remembered for books like Saltflower and the Daughters of the Sunstone series.
3 Audiobooks
Shatter the Wall
by Sydney J. Van Scyoc
Bimmie Says
by Sydney J. Van Scyoc
Pollony Undiverted
by Sydney J. Van Scyoc
About the author
Born Sydney Joyce Brown on July 27, 1939, in Mount Vernon, Indiana, she became an American science fiction writer whose first published story, "Shatter the Wall," appeared in Galaxy in 1962. She went on publishing short fiction through the 1960s and released her first novel, Saltflower, in 1971.
Over the years, she wrote a number of novels, including the Daughters of the Sunstone books, and remained a recognizable presence in science fiction through the 1970s, 1980s, and beyond. Reference sources on the genre note both the range of her magazine work and her longer fiction, which often drew readers to immersive alien settings and social questions.
She later lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and died on June 17, 2023, at the age of 83. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found from the sources checked here, so a profile image is not included.