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
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.
past defense fantasy
Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.
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.
book writing fiction
When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
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.
years firsts degrees
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
degrees biology
One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
hope eye light
I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his light shine on us all.
book character fiction
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
future may way
It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
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.
rockets doe initiative
This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.
one-thing better-than-you be-you
One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.
hands
To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.