Elizabeth Moon
Elizabeth Moon | |
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| Occupation | Novelist |
| Period | June 1 1988 - Present |
| Genre | Military science fiction Science fiction Fantasy |
| Spouse | Richard Sloan Moon (1969-present) |
| Website | |
| http://www.sff.net/people/Elizabeth.Moon/ | |
Elizabeth Moon (born March 7, 1945) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. She was born Susan Elizabeth Norris and grew up in McAllen, Texas. She lives in Florence, Texas (about 40 miles northeast of Austin). She married Richard Sloan Moon in 1969 and they have a son, Michael, born in 1983.[1]
Biography
She attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant during active service with the US Marine Corps, which she joined in 1968 having obtained a Bachelor's degree in History from Rice University. Later she additionally obtained a B.A. in Biology. She is also an experienced paramedic and has served in various capacities in local government. Moon started writing when she was a child and attempted her first book, which was about her dog, at age 6. Because of this, she was inspired to write creatively and began writing science fiction in her teens (while still considering it a sideline).[1]
She first got serious about writing in her mid-thirties and had a newspaper column in a county weekly newspaper. Her first novel was The Sheepfarmer's Daughter which won the Compton Crook Award. Most of her writings contain military science fiction themes, though biology, politics and personal relationship issues also feature strongly. The Serrano Legacy is a space opera. The Speed of Dark is a Nebula Award-winning near-future story told from the viewpoint of an autistic computer programmer, inspired by her own autistic son Michael.
Elizabeth Moon has many interests outside of writing. She has a musical background, having played the accordion during her university days[2] as well as singing in choirs.[1][2]
Awards
- Sheepfarmers Daughter – 1989 Compton Crook Award (winner)
- Remnant Population – 1997 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nomination)
- The Speed of Dark – 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novel (winner) – 2003 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nomination)
Moon was awarded the 2007 Robert A. Heinlein Award, which honors "outstanding published works in hard science fiction or technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space".[3]
Bibliography
Paksenarrion
The Deed of Paksenarrion Novels
- Sheepfarmer's Daughter (1988-06-01)
- Divided Allegiance (1988-10-01)
- Oath of Gold (1989-01-02)
- “Those Who Walk in Darkness” (1990-03-01) – short story set during Oath of Gold, included in the collections Lunar Activity and Phases
- The Deed of Paksenarrion (1992-02-01) – omnibus edition
- The Deed of Paksenarrion (2003-10-01) – hardcover omnibus
The Legacy of Gird Novels
- Surrender None (1990-06-01) – prequel to The Deed of Paksenarrion
- Liar's Oath (1992-05-01) – sequel to Surrender None
- The Legacy of Gird (1996-09-01) – omnibus edition
- Heris Serrano trilogy
- Heris Serrano (2002-07-30) – Baen omnibus edition
- The Serrano Legacy: Omnibus One (2006-12-06) – Orbit GB omnibus
- Esmay Suiza continuation
- The Serrano Connection: Omnibus Two (2007-09-06) – Orbit GB omnibus
- The Serrano Connection (2008-10-01) – Baen omnibus edition
- Suiza and Serrano
- The Serrano Succession: Omnibus Three (2008-02-06) – Orbit GB omnibus
- Trading in Danger (2003-09-30)
- Marque and Reprisal (2004-09-28) – Moving Target in the UK and Australia
- Engaging The Enemy (2006-03-28)
- Command Decision (2007-02-27)
- Victory Conditions (2008-02-19)
- The Planet Pirates is based on two books by Anne McCaffrey, Dinosaur Planet and Dinosaur Planet Survivors, (the two are also called The Mystery of Ireta) which also form the core of The Death of Sleep.
- Sassinak (1990-03-01) – Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Moon
- The Death of Sleep (1990-06-01) – Anne McCaffrey & Jody Lynn Nye
- Generation Warriors (1991-02-01) – Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Moon
- The Planet Pirates (1993-10-01) – omnibus edition, McCaffrey, Moon, & Nye
Other novels
Collections
Elizabeth Moon’s list of her own short fiction
- Lunar Activity (1990-03-01) – Ten short stories
- Phases (1997-12-01) – Eight stories from Lunar Activity, and others previously uncollected.
- both include “Those Who Walk in Darkness” – a Paksenarrion short story
- Moon Flights (September 2007) - Fifteen stories, including an original "Vatta's War" story, with an introduction by Anne McCaffrey (Note: the limited edition contains an additional rare bonus story entitled "Fencing In")
Interviews
- Christopher Dow, Elizabeth Moon's Path to the Stars, Rice University's alumni magazine, The Sallyport, accessed September 15 2007
- Maja 'Lotessa' Branovacki, Interview on wotmania.com, August 18 2006, accessed September 15 2007
See also
References
- ^ a b c Elizabeth Moon, Biographical information on her homepage, accessed September 15 2007
- ^ a b Christopher Dow, Elizabeth Moon's Path to the Stars, Rice University's alumni magazine, The Sallyport, accessed September 15 2007
- ^ Robert A. Heinlein Award Announcement on the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America news site, accessed September 15 2007
External links
- Elizabeth Moon's Home Page
- Sheepfarmer's Daughter (HTML) from the Baen Free Library.
- Elizabeth Moon at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Night Shade Books publisher of Moon Flights