Elizabeth Moon
Elizabeth Moon
Elizabeth Moonis an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her other writing includes newspaper columns and opinion pieces. Her novel The Speed of Dark won the 2003 Nebula Award. Prior to her writing career, she served in the United States Marine Corps...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth7 March 1945
CountryUnited States of America
american-author conference people rather treating
As I said at the BYU conference some years back, we make aliens out of people by treating them as alien, rather than recognizing similarities.
american-author climb girls growing guys hardly loved race sort sports trees
There were hardly any sports for girls when I was growing up, but I loved to race the guys and climb trees and all that sort of stuff.
american-author devoted family knowledge members odd women
So I didn't think it was odd for women to have technological knowledge and yet be mothers, and very devoted family members and have friends.
autism normal dryers
Normal' is a dryer setting.
ignorance dark simple
There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.
thinking want cost
Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.
fantasy astronomy biomedical
I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.
grew grew-up courses
I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.
married models i-can
I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.
math emotional i-can
I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.
brain different stories
I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.
mother should convinced
Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
physics calculus university
Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
shoes yarn clothes
Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.