Born: 1945-03-07
Profession: Author
Nation: American
Biography of Elizabeth Moon
When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.
Tags: Between, Break, EmotionalYou 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.
Tags: Life, Past, RealI love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.
Tags: Fantasy, Love, ScienceIn a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
Tags: Character, Ego, NovelBut 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.
Tags: Put, Real, SituationHard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
Tags: Hard, Physics, UniversityHaving a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
Tags: Mother, Open, WomenI actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.
Tags: Actually, Brain, StoriesI can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.
Tags: Become, Emotional, GoodI had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.
Tags: Along, Married, WomanI like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.
Tags: BeatlesI regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?
Tags: Getting, Possible, WhyIt may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
Tags: Future, May, ScienceIt's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.
Tags: Character, Focus, SingleMy first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
Tags: Degree, Second, WantedMy personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
Tags: Feeling, Real, ScienceNo, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
Tags: Bass, Perfect, WorksThere are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
Tags: Character, Old, ScienceWhen I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.
Tags: She, Working, YoungWhen I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
Tags: Books, Short, WriteOther 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.
Tags: Books, Old, Rich