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
hands
To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.
one-thing better-than-you be-you
One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.
rockets doe initiative
This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.
eye blue color
Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that.
book character fiction
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
real past people
You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.
degrees biology
One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
years firsts degrees
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
trying matter world
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
emotional interesting intellectual
When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.
real people world
But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.
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.
physics calculus university
Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
mother should convinced
Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.