Elizabeth Moon
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Image:Elizabeth Moon 2005.JPG Elizabeth Moon (born March 7, 1945) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. She lives in Florence, Texas (near Austin).
She attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant during active service with the US Marine Corps, which she joined in 1968 having obtained a Bachelor's degree in History from Rice University. Later she additionally obtained a B.A. in Biology. She is also an experienced paramedic.
Moon started writing when she was a child and attempted her first book which was about her dog at age 6. Although it was a failure, she was inspired to write creatively and began writing science fiction in her teens (while still considering it a sideline). She first got serious about writing in her mid-thirties and had a newspaper column in a county weekly newspaper. Her first novel was The Sheepfarmer's Daughter which won the Compton Crook Award. Most of her writings contain military science fiction themes, though biology, politics and personal relationship issues also feature strongly. The Serrano Legacy is a space opera. The Speed of Dark is a near-future story told from the viewpoint of an autistic computer programmer, inspired by her own autistic son Michael.
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Awards
- Sheepfarmers Daughter – 1989 Compton Crook Award (winner)
- Remnant Population – 1997 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nomination)
- The Speed of Dark – 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novel (winner) – 2003 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nomination)
Bibliography
The Deed of Paksenarrion
- Sheepfarmer's Daughter (1988-06-01)
- Divided Allegiance (1988-10-01)
- Oath of Gold (1989-01-02)
- “Those Who Walk in Darkness” (1990-03-01) – short story set during Oath of Gold, included in the collections Lunar Activity and Phases
- The Deed of Paksenarrion (1992-02-01) – omnibus edition
- The Deed of Paksenarrion (2003-10-01) – hardcover omnibus
The Legacy of Gird
- Surrender None (1990-06-01) – prequel to The Deed of Paksenarrion
- Liar's Oath (1992-05-01) – sequel to Surrender None
- The Legacy of Gird (1996-09-01) – omnibus edition
Familias Regnant universe
- Heris Serrano trilogy
- Hunting Party (1993-07-01)
- Sporting Chance (1994-09-01)
- Winning Colours (1995-08-01)
- Heris Serrano (2002-07-30) – omnibus edition
- Esmay Suiza trilogy
- Once a Hero (1997-03-01)
- Rules of Engagement (1998-12-01)
- Change of Command (1999-12-01)
- Against the Odds (2000-12-02)
Vatta's War
- Trading in Danger (2003-09-30)
- Marque and Reprisal (2004-09-28) – Moving Target in the UK
- Engaging the Enemy (2006-03-28)
There will be another two books in this series - the titles are not yet known.
The Planet Pirates trilogy
- Sassinak (1990-03-01) – Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Moon
- The Death of Sleep (1990-06-01) – Anne McCaffrey & Jody Lynn Nye
- Generation Warriors (1991-02-01) – Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Moon
- The Planet Pirates (1993-10-01) – omnibus edition, McCaffrey, Moon, & Nye
Other novels
Collections
Elizabeth Moon’s list of her own short fiction
- Lunar Activity (1990-03-01) – Ten short stories
- Phases (1997-12-01) – Eight stories from Lunar Activity, and others previously uncollected.
- both include “Those Who Walk in Darkness” – a Paksenarrion short story