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
past defense fantasy
Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.
real feelings everyday
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
different sometimes hard
It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.
school sunday taught
I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.
challenges used
I used to not back down from a challenge.
book character people
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.
motivation plot behinds
Motivation is the power behind plot.
ignorance light darkness
I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.
hands
To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.
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.