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  Elizabeth Moon
Elizabeth Moon is well known for her vigorous, entertaining adventure fiction; space opera, high fantasy and the like.
Moon was born in Texas just miles from the Mexican border, served in the Marines (during the counterculture Sixties, no less!) and lives in Texas today with her husband and son.
Elizabeth Moon: Our son was obviously one inspiration, but this book had more than one root.
www.scifidimensions.com /Feb03/elizabethmoon.htm   (892 words)

  
  Elizabeth Moon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elizabeth Moon (March 7, 1945 –) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
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).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elizabeth_Moon   (284 words)

  
 Moon (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The astrological meaning of the Moon is described in the article Solar system in astrology.
A moon is also the period between successive occurrences of a particular lunar phase, see month, calendar, and figuratively, a calendar month.
Moon type, a writing system for the blind.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moon_(disambiguation)   (236 words)

  
 The SF Site: A Conversation With Elizabeth Moon -- Part 2
Elizabeth Moon grew up in south Texas, 250 miles south of San Antonio and eight miles from the Mexican border.
Elizabeth Moon established herself in the late 1980s with the popular The Deed of Paksennarion trilogy, in which she presented a starkly realistic fantasy world.
Moon's science fiction has been as well-recieved as her fantasy, with her 1997 effort, Remnant Population appearing on the final Hugo ballot for best novel.
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 The SF Site: A Conversation With Elizabeth Moon -- Part 1
Elizabeth Moon grew up in south Texas, 250 miles south of San Antonio and eight miles from the Mexican border.
Elizabeth Moon established herself in the late 1980s with the popular The Deed of Paksennarion trilogy, in which she presented a starkly realistic fantasy world.
Moon's science fiction has been as well-received as her fantasy, with her 1997 effort, Remnant Population appearing on the final Hugo ballot for best novel.
www.sfsite.com /02a/em74.htm   (1095 words)

  
 Astrocartography of Queen Elizabeth I's Least-aspected Moon
Queen Elizabeth I was born in Greenwich, England, just east of her Primary Moon line, which runs directly over England in a vertical, midnight position.
Elizabeth faced additional threats of “domestic / reversals” (Moon / Uranus) in the guise of her cousin, Mary Stuart (Mary Queen of Scots), who was implicated in plotting to usurp the throne with the help of the Spanish Army, and who was finally executed on February 8, 1587.
Upon her accession to the throne, Elizabeth’s greatest challenge was to “unite” (Pri­mary Moon) the small and still vulnerable nation, which was threatened with division over the question of religion (between Catholics and Protestants).
www.dominantstar.com /b_eliz.htm   (456 words)

  
 Reviews | The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Veteran SF writer Barbara Moon knows this territory all too well, for she has raised an autistic son to adolescence.
She sets Lou's story several decades into the future, at a time when criminals are controlled by computer chips embedded in the brain and autism is considered as obsolete as bubonic plague.
Elizabeth Moon has done a superb job in creating Lou, though characters like Don and Crenshaw sometimes come dangerously close to bad-guy stereotypes.
www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/speedofdark.html   (946 words)

  
 Elizabeth Moon Reviews
It is a measure of Elizabeth Moon's genius that she enables a reader to thoroughly experience the world through Lou's tangled but exhilarating neurology, and wonder what we "normal" people are missing when we don't acknowledge our connection to those who seem so different from us.
Moon is effective at putting the reader inside Lou's mind, and it is both fascinating and painful to see the behavior and qualities of so-called normals through his eyes.
Moon writes with both passion and dispassion of a subject that is close to her heart.
awfulagent.com /reviews/moon2.html   (4251 words)

  
 Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon
Moon takes her time to draw Ofelia's character in considerable detail.
Moon also gets inside the mind of the indigenous creatures to create a real sense of 'alieness' which is often lacking in SF.
When Ofelia first makes contact, Moon generates a sense of unease and disquiet that she sustains for a considerable time.
www.computercrowsnest.com /sfnews2/02_march/review0302_6.shtml   (691 words)

  
 Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley - Hot Couples Compatibility Reading
Elizabeth, you are challenged to become consciously aware of the rules that you have made for yourself and for Hugh.
Hugh's Moon in Taurus and Elizabeth's Moon in Scorpio
Elizabeth is strangely magnetic and alluring, and would be wise to mate with one who keeps abreast of profound mood changes.
www.adze.com /couples/grant-hurley.html   (2983 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Speed of Dark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon has created a powerful, complex, and believable portrayal of a man who varies radically from what is defined as "normal." The author insightfully explores the nature of "normality," identity, choice, responsibility, free will, illness and health, and good and evil.
With *The Speed of Dark*, Elizabeth Moon steps out from her usual role of science fiction author to deliver a gimlet-eyed perspective of what it means to be 'normal,' and in the process shows the reader what normal means.
Moon draws on her own personal knowledge and experience with autism and fashions a believable story set in the near future of an autistic adult.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345447557?v=glance   (2209 words)

  
 Reviews | The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Veteran SF writer Barbara Moon knows this territory all too well, for she has raised an autistic son to adolescence.
She sets Lou's story several decades into the future, at a time when criminals are controlled by computer chips embedded in the brain and autism is considered as obsolete as bubonic plague.
Elizabeth Moon has done a superb job in creating Lou, though characters like Don and Crenshaw sometimes come dangerously close to bad-guy stereotypes.
www.lookforthis.com /fiction/speedofdark.html   (946 words)

  
 ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Thoughtful, poignant, and unforgettable, The Speed of Dark is a gripping exploration into the world of Lou Arrendale, an autistic man who is offered a chance to try a brand-new experimental "cure" for his condition.
In the accompanying interview, Elizabeth Moon states that she wanted to avoid demonizing autism in her presentation of Lou and his fellow autists.
Moon is the mother of an autistic teenager and her love is apparent in the story of Lou.
www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/speed_of_dark1.asp   (1035 words)

  
 Family Group Sheet - Dr Frederick Trevan (1803-1885) and Elizabeth Moon Hingston (1813-1884)
In 1841, when he was in his late 30s, Frederick married Elizabeth Moon Hingston, from Bodmin, and they had 6 children, one of whom died as a child.
Elizabeth died on 18 Nov 1884, 3 months before Frederick, who had not completed administering her will before he died on 22 Feb 1885.
Anne's children both took Moon as their middle name, which was the middle name for Frederick's wife Elizabeth, suggesting that the two families stayed close although they were not close geographically.
home.wxs.nl /~treva000/families/ft_emh.htm   (1881 words)

  
 Famous McHi Alumnus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Elizabeth was in the final graduating class at the original McAllen High School campus in the downtown area.
http://www.sff.net/people/Elizabeth.Moon/), Elizabeth recalls her childhood in McAllen: "We lived in a little frame house on Hackberry Street, which flooded every time there was a two-inch rain--our area was known as 'Hackberry Lake' after rains.
Elizabeth says that she became interested in science fiction while she was a student at Lamar Junior High in McAllen.
mws.mcallen.isd.tenet.edu /mchi/alumni/moon   (337 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Against The Odds (Angel)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Moon's description of a deeply layered political and military culture provides an engaging touchstone for the far-flung skirmishes taking place therein.
Moon wraps up the Familias Regnant saga with a triumphant coda in which Esmay Suiza and Barin Serrano figure vitally in defeating a mutiny of the late Admiral Livadhhi's Nazilike supporters.
There are weaknesses: Moon tends to paint her villains too flly, for one thing; and her plots seem to be driven a bit much by coincidence.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671319612?v=glance   (2322 words)

  
 Trading In Danger (Book One of Vatt's War) by Elizabeth Moon
Elizabeth Moon is never exactly out to challenge genre conventions with books like this and that suits me just fine.
There's also the boyfriend she had to leave behind in the military academy, whom we never see or hear from and is criminally under-used until he emerges as actually a bit of a git at the end.
The contrasts play nicely as Ky is forced to consolidate her various roles as dutiful daughter entrusted with the family name and money, captain trying to achieve her own fate, the military officer she had been working towards and this adds some interesting tensions to the plot.
www.computercrowsnest.com /sfnews2/04_feb/review0204_20.shtml   (625 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Liar's Oath (The Legacy of Gird)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
I'll agree that Liar's Oath is not the pinnacle of Elizabeth Moon's fantasy novels, but it tells a very important story, and a lot of people don't like it because they don't realize until the end that this story is a TRAGEDY.
His story is a warning, and Moon tells it with all the style and bitter realism her fans expect from her.
Moon gets complemented on the most for her other novels.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1841490164   (728 words)

  
 The Deed of Paksenarrion : A Novel by Elizabeth Moon, Search Cheap Books, Discount Books, ISBN 0671721046
One of the best -- and certainly most original -- is Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion series, which follows the adventures of a young woman as she strives to become a paladin.
Moon couldn't have chosen a better setting for her tale: a dark moor where the spirit of a warrior is tested as much as her courage.
Elizabeth Moon should not be compared to any other author for she is in a class by herself.
www.comparebookprices.ca /book_detail/0671721046   (755 words)

  
 Bookreporter.com - THE SPEED OF DARK by Elizabeth Moon
Comparisons are only the beginning when it comes to appreciating the depth and empathic precision that Moon --- a Hugo Award finalist and herself the mother of an autistic child --- brings to a near-future world where the intellectually "different" find themselves caught up in a truly oriental crisis of mixed danger and opportunity.
Instead of responding to the usual fear and prejudice through righteous anger, sentimental preachiness, or idealized fantasy with the requisite happy ending ("boy gets new brain and all is well..."), Moon and her delightfully believable protagonist meet the real world head-on and make whimsical, workable sense of it.
With THE SPEED OF DARK, Elizabeth Moon has formed and sculpted a heroic plotline from seemingly mundane ingredients, taking the reader into fictional, ethical and even spiritual realms that have rarely been so memorably blended.
www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0345447557.asp   (447 words)

  
 Powell's Books - The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Elizabeth Moon has written an outstanding testament to the unique gift every one of us has to share, exactly as we are, while also cheering us on to be all that we can be.
Moon for helping us to see with new clarity not only the mystery of autism, but also the wonder of it." Barry Neil Kaufman, Author of Son-Rise and Happiness Is A Choice, Director of The Option Institute and the Autism Treatment Center of America™
Elizabeth Moon takes us to a part of the human neighborhood that is at once enchanting and heartbreaking." Greg Bear, Author of Darwin‛s Radio
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0345447549-0   (924 words)

  
 Litteratur: Elizabeth Moon: Speed of Dark (Nebulavinnare 2004)
Moons Speed of dark är egentligen en lång studie i autism.
Moon kan omöjligtvis beskriva saker som Lou inte förstår eller har vetskap om.
Moons autist Lou förklarar lite för mycket, är en aning för medveten om sin autism.
www.enhorningen.net /Recensioner/Moon_Nebula_2004.shtml   (1011 words)

  
 Elizabeth Moon's Titles
Elizabeth Moon writes outstanding works, both SF and Fantasy.
Both her Paksennarion novels and the Familias Regnant novels are wonderful examples of how to create worlds and write good stories set in them.
This Elizabeth Moon link will list everything by her that Amazon.com has available.
www.bright.net /~tomb/reviews/moon.html   (1140 words)

  
 Elizabeth Moon
Against The Odds is the seventh volume of The Serrano Legacy, an action-packed science fiction series from the author of the hugely popular Deed of Paksenarrion sequence.
Elizabeth Moon joined the US Marine Corps in 1968, reaching the rank of 1st Lieutenant during active duty.
She has also earned degrees in history and biology, run for public office and been a columnist on her local newspaper.
www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/elizabethmoon.html   (696 words)

  
 Random House for High School Teachers
With the Vatta’s War series, award-winning author Elizabeth Moon has claimed a place alongside such preeminent writers of military science fiction as David Weber and Lois McMaster Bujold.
Now Moon is back–and so is her butt-kicking, take-no-prisoners heroine, Kylara Vatta.
For fans of fast-paced adventure and compelling characters, the military science fiction of Nebula Award—winning author Elizabeth Moon is the perfect choice.
www.randomhouse.com /highschool/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=21071   (718 words)

  
 Simon & Schuster: SimonSays : Browse Books - Fiction - Science Fiction - Elizabeth Moon
Browse Books > Fiction > Science Fiction > Elizabeth Moon
By Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon and Jody Lynn Nye
All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.
www.simonsays.com /content/browse.cfm?tab=1&pid=516361,516462,358252   (202 words)

  
 Change of Command (Serrano Legacy, book 6) by Elizabeth Moon
FantasticFiction > Authors M > Elizabeth Moon > Change of Command (Serrano Legacy, book 6)
Esmay Suiza and Barin Serrano struggle to reconcile their families--but their universe is falling apart--in this thrilling sequel to Elizabeth Moon's "Rules of Engagement" and "Once a Hero."
Used availability for Elizabeth Moon's Change of Command
www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /m/elizabeth-moon/change-of-command.htm   (95 words)

  
 Once a Hero (Serrano Legacy, book 4) by Elizabeth Moon
FantasticFiction > Authors M > Elizabeth Moon > Once a Hero (Serrano Legacy, book 4)
Suddenly, she has no choice--she must take command.
Used availability for Elizabeth Moon's Once a Hero
www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /m/elizabeth-moon/once-hero.htm   (143 words)

  
 Locus Online: Elizabeth Moon Interview Excerpts
THE MAGAZINE OF THE SCIENCE FICTION and FANTASY FIELD
Elizabeth Moon earned degrees in history and biology and in between served in the US Marine Corps from 1968-1971, finishing as a First Lieutenant.
Writing for her own pleasure since childhood, she sold her first story, "ABCs in Zero-G", to Analog in 1986.
www.locusmag.com /2004/Issues/03Moon.html   (927 words)

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