Julie Anne Jardine, an sf writer and LASFS member, has died at the age of 86 in Phoenix reports her daughter.

Jardine had been living independently until a month ago, then suffered a fall and entered a decline, passing away while in hospice care.

Julie Anne and Jack Owen Jardine were married from 1958 to 1968. They collaboratively wrote two Ace novels under the name Howard L. Cory, The Sword of Lankor and The Mind Monsters (both appeared in 1966).