Elizabeth Moon
Susan Elizabeth Norris Moon ( born March 7, 1945 in McAllen, Texas) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
Life
Elizabeth Moon was born in McAllen, a city close to the Mexican border. She received in 1968 from Rice University with a BA in history. Between 1968 and 1971 she was the United States Marine Corps, where she says that it was struggling with computers, and reached there the rank of First Lieutenant. After his military service, she has studied and obtained in 1975 at the University of Texas at Austin another BA in biology.
She is married to Richard Sloan Moon since 1969, a fellow student from the time at Rice University and later an army officer. They moved in 1979 in a small town in the north of Austin and still live there. There, their common, suffering from autism son Michael was born in 1983.
Elizabeth Moon wrote her first stories and poems as a little child. Seriously, it has, however, dealt only with mid-thirties with the writing. Your first sold short stories, " Bargains " and " ABCs in Zero -G ", were published in 1986. Her first novel, Sheep Farmer's Daughter, first in a fantasy trilogy, came out in 1988. For this debut, she was honored in 1989 by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society with the Compton Crook Award. International she gained her reputation with the nominated for the Hugo Award Roman Remnant Population ( German: The last settler ). The final international breakthrough came when he won the Nebula Award for her novel The Speed of Dark ( German: The speed of darkness ), a gambling in the near future story, told from the point of view of an autistic computer programmer's to which they carried the disease her son was inspired.
Works (selection)
Novels
Legend of Paksenarrion
- 2010 Oath of Fealty
- 2011 Kings of the North
The Serrano Legacy
The planet pirates
Vatta 's War
- 2003 Trading in Danger
- Marque and Reprisal in 2004, also: Moving Target
- 2006 Engaging the Enemy
- 2007 Command Decision
- 2008 Victory Conditions