Lora Johnson
{{short description|American author}}
{{COI|date=March 2017}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Lora Johnson
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| birth_name = Shane Johnson
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1959|10|4}}
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| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2024|08|08|1959|10|4}}
| occupation = Author
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| nationality = American
| period = 1985–2007
| genre = Christian fiction,
Science fiction
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| notableworks = Ice, Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise
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Lora Johnson was an American author best known for the novel Ice.
Her works included numerous original novels and Star Trek reference books, including Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise, the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Journal and Worlds of the Federation. She also authored the Star Wars Technical Journal and contributed to the canon of the Star Wars universe. She was a historian of United States spaceflights and was a design consultant on HBO's From the Earth to the Moon mini-series. More recently{{when|date=October 2021}}, she created the Virtual Alamo interactive online exhibit for the University of Texas at Arlington.
Personal life
=Gender transition=
After suffering prolonged and debilitating stress-induced health problems that nearly ended her life, Johnson dropped out of the public eye in 2008 and underwent correction of a congenital intersex condition, transitioning from male to female.{{Cite web|url=http://www.chicagonow.com/trans-girl-cross/2016/06/shane-johnson-lora-johnson-scifi-christian-author-comes-out-transgender/|title=Shane Johnson to Lora Johnson: SciFi and Christian author comes out as transgender|website=www.chicagonow.com|access-date=2016-06-10}}
Awards
Her novel Chayatocha received the Best of 2003 in literature award from Christian Fiction Review magazine. Two of her novels, Ice and The Last Guardian, were Christy Award finalists.
Partial bibliography
- {{cite book |first=Shane |last=Johnson |title=Blueprinting The Science Fiction Universes |date=March 1985 |publisher=New Media Books }}
- {{cite book |first=Shane |last=Johnson |title=Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise |publisher=Pocket Books |date=July 1, 1987 |isbn=978-0-671-63576-3}}
- {{cite book |first=Shane |last=Johnson |title=The Worlds of the Federation |url=https://archive.org/details/worldsoffederati00shan |url-access=registration |date=August 1989 |publisher=Pocket Books |isbn=978-0-671-66989-8}}
- {{cite book |first=Shane |last=Johnson |title="Star Wars" Technical Journal |publisher=Boxtree Ltd. |date=June 24, 1996 |isbn=978-0-7522-0391-1}}
- {{cite book |first=Shane |last=Johnson |title=The Last Guardian |publisher=WaterBrook Press |date=February 20, 2001 |isbn=978-1-57856-367-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/lastguardian00john }}
- {{cite book |first=Shane |last=Johnson |title=Ice |publisher=WaterBrook Press |date=July 16, 2002 |isbn=978-1-57856-548-1}}
- {{cite book |first=Shane |last=Johnson |title=Chayatocha |publisher=Barbour Publishing |date=November 1, 2003 |isbn=978-1-59310-051-3}}
- {{cite book |first=Shane |last=Johnson |title=A Form of Godliness |publisher=WaterBrook Press |date=September 21, 2004 |isbn=978-1-57856-549-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/formofgodlinessn0000john }}
- {{cite book |first=Shane |last=Johnson |title=The Demas Revelation |publisher=David C. Cook |date=May 1, 2007 |isbn=978-1-58919-090-0}}
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Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:American science fiction writers
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