Julian May (1931) is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for her Saga of Pilocene Exile and Galactic Milieu Series. Her first book, The Many-Colored Land published in 1981, was the first book of the Pilocene Exile series. In 2015 she was inducted into the First Fandom Hall of Fame. In addition to writing under her own name, she has also used the pen names Ian Thorne and for non-fiction books, Lee N. Falconer.