Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robots and Thinking Machines | 1961 | Julian May | Buy |
| 2 | There’s Adventure in Atomic Energy | 2015 | Julian May | Buy |
Julian May’s non-fiction career preceded her fame as a science fiction novelist. She wrote dozens of educational and reference books for young readers, covering topics from robots and space exploration to sports and natural history.
This non-fiction work, beginning in the early 1960s, established May as a productive and reliable author years before The Many-Colored Land launched her to prominence in the science fiction world. The breadth of her non-fiction interests informed the detailed worldbuilding that characterized her later fiction.