“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.” – Elizabeth Moon
Born Susan Elizabeth Norris on March
7, 1946 in Texas, Moon wrote her first “book” at age 6 and started writing
Science Fiction and Fantasy as a teenager – something she first looked upon as
a sideline before realizing she had a knack for not only creating new worlds
but creating worlds that a lot of people wanted to read about.
A graduate of Rice University, she
had a career as a U.S. Marine Corps officer and started writing science fiction
with a military twist, something that she continues doing yet today. When not writing SciFi or Fantasy, she also
has been a successful newspaper columnist and opinion writer.
Among her many awards are a “Best
Novel” Hugo for The Speed of Dark and
the Robert A. Heinlein Award for "outstanding published works in hard
science fiction or technical writings that inspire the human exploration of
space.” Speed of Dark is a near-future story told from the viewpoint of an
autistic computer programmer, inspired by her son Michael.
“My personal feeling about science
fiction,” she said, “is that it's always
in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.“
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