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
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.
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.
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.
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.
mother should convinced
Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
brain different stories
I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.