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
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As I said at the BYU conference some years back, we make aliens out of people by treating them as alien, rather than recognizing similarities.
people normal sometimes
Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.
people hours messy
People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.
book character people
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.
real past people
You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.
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.
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So I didn't think it was odd for women to have technological knowledge and yet be mothers, and very devoted family members and have friends.
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I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.
american-author hard hold strongly
It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.
american-author hardware
When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.
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.
character ego perception
In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.
perfect bass strings
No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.