Elizabeth Moon

## About the Author

* **Other Names**:
* **Genres**: Epic Fantasy, Space Opera, SF Military, Sword and Sorcery
* **Writing Style**:
* **Books:** Elizabeth Moon Books

### Biography

Moon was born Susan Elizabeth Norris and grew up in McAllen, Texas. She started writing when she was a child and first tried a book, which was about her dog, at age six. She was inspired to write creatively, and says that she began writing science fiction in her teens, considering it a sideline.

She earned a Bachelor's degree in History from Rice University in Houston, Texas in 1968 and later earned a second B.A. in Biology. In 1968, she joined the United States Marine Corps as a computer specialist, attaining the rank of 1st Lieutenant while on active duty. She married Richard Sloan Moon in 1969 and they have a son, Michael, born in 1983.

Moon began writing professionally in her mid-thirties and had a newspaper column in a county weekly newspaper. In 1986, she published her first science fiction in the monthly magazine *Analog* and the anthology series *Sword and Sorceress*. Her stories appeared regularly in *Analog* the next few years. Her first novel *The Sheepfarmer's Daughter* (1988) won the Compton Crook Award and inaugurated the Paksennarrion series.

## Series

### Paksenarrion series

* Genres: Sword and Sorcery, Epic Fantasy
* Theme: All Paksenarrion wants is to fight, she succeeds but life can be difficult. She is tested through many trials and in the end she becomes a Paladin for *Gird*.

Consists of the following sub-series.

* The Deed of Paksenarrion
* The Legacy of Gird
* Paladin's Legacy series aka Legend of Paksenarrion novels
* Deeds of Honor: Paksenarrion World Chronicles - Short story collection

### The Serrano Legacy series

* Genres: Space Opera, SF Military
* Theme:

### Vatta's War series

* Genres: Space Opera, SF Military
* Theme: Betrayal and redemption

### Vatta's Peace

* Series list:
* Theme: Continuation of Vatta's War series. After a war, what's next?

### Planet Pirates series

* Genres: Space Opera, SF Military
* Theme: The Planet Pirates trilogy is based on two books by Anne McCaffrey, *Dinosaur Planet* and *Dinosaur Planet Survivors* (1978 and 1984, jointly reissued as *The Ireta Adventure* in 1985 and *The Mystery of Ireta* in 2004), which also form the core of *The Death of Sleep*. ISFDB catalogs all five novels as the Ireta series.
* Series list:
	1. *Sassinak* (Baen Books, March 1990), Anne McCaffrey and Moon
	2. *The Death of Sleep* (Baen, June 1990), McCaffrey and Jody Lynn Nye
	3. *Generation Warriors* (Baen, February 1991), McCaffrey and Moon
	+ Omnibus edition: *The Planet Pirates* (Baen, October 1993), McCaffrey, Moon, and Nye

## Other Works

### Novels

* *Remnant Population* (May 1996)
* *The Speed of Dark* (October 2002)

### Short stories

* *Tradition* (1998) (collected in Harry Turtledove's anthology *Alternate Generals*)
* *Bargains* Sword and Sorceress III§, ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley, DAW, 1986
* *ABCs in Zero G,* Analog\*§, 1986
* *Sweet Dreams, Sweet Nothings,* Analog, 1986
* *A Delicate Adjustment* Analog\*§, 1987
* *Too Wet to Plow* Analog\*§
* *Gut Feelings* Analog\*§
* *The Generic Rejuvenation of Milo Ardry* Analog\*§
* *Gravesite Revisited* Analog\*
* *Just Another Day at the Weather Service* Analog\*§
* *Welcome to Wheel Days* New Destinies VII, Baen Books, 1989
* *If Nudity Offends You* Fantasy and Science Fiction\*
* *New World Symphony* Fantasy and Science Fiction\*§
* *The Happy Frog* Fantasy and Science Fiction§
* *Politics* Far Stars Wars§, ed. Bill Fawcett, ROC, 1990
* *The Perfect Hero* Amazing, 1991
* *In Suspect Terrain* Siege of Arista§, ed. Bill Fawcett, ROC, 1991
* *Dream's Quarry* Horsefantastic, DAW, 1991
* *Risks of Memory* New Destinies IX, Baen Books, 1990
* *Welcome to Wheel Days* New Destinies VI, Baen Books
* *Clara's Cat* Catfantastic II, ed. Andre Norton, DAW, 1990
* *Those Who Walk in Darkness* Lunar Activity§
* *Fencing In* Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1993
* *Aura* Fantasy & Science Fiction§, 1995
* *Knight of Other Days* Tales of the Knights Templar§, ed. Katherine Kurtz, 1995
* *Horse of Her Dreams* Sisters in Fantasy§, ed. Susan Shwartz,1995
* *And Ladies of the Club* Chicks in Chain Mail, ed. Esther Friesner, 1995
* *Hand to Hand* Women at War, ed. Lois Bujold, January 1996
* *Accidents Don't Happen...* Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear!, ed. Jody Lynn Nye, (1996)
* *No Pain, No Gain* Did You Say Chicks?!, ed. Esther Friesner, 1998
* *My Princess* Warrior Princesses, ed. Elizabeth Anne Scarborough and Martin H. Greenberg, DAW Books, 1998.
* *The Last Battle* Armageddon, ed. David Drake, Billie Sue Moseman & Martin H. Greenberg, Baen, 1998
* *Tradition* Alternate Generals, ed. Roland Green and Harry Turtledove, 1998
* *Fool's Gold* Chicks and Chained Males, ed. Esther Friesner, 1999
* *Silver Lining* Past Lives, Present Tense, ed. Elizabeth Scarborough, 1999
* *Sweet Charity* The Chick is in the Mail, ed. Esther Friesner, 2000
* *Gifts* Masters of Fantasy, ed. Bill Fawcett & Brian Thomsen, 2004
* *Judgment* The Dragon Quintet, ed. Marvin Kaye, 2004
* *Combat Shopping* Escape from Earth, ed by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, SFBC, 2006
* *Say Cheese* Moon Flights, Nightshade Books, 2007
* *Chameleons* The New Space Opera 2, ed. Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan. Harper-Collins, (2009)
* *An Incident in Uskvosk* Songs of the Dying Earth, ed. George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois. Subterranean Press, 2009)
* *Point of Honor* Suvudu.com #, 2010
* *Cross Purposes* Suvudu.com #, 2010
* *Falk's Oath* Paksworld blog #, 2011
* *Torre's Ride* Paksworld blog #, 2011
* *A Parrion of Cooking* Deeds of Honor: Paksenarrion World Chronicles, © 2014 by Elizabeth Moon
* *Vardan's Tale* Paksworld blog #, 2009
* *The Last Lesson* Deeds of Honor: Paksenarrion World Chronicles, © 2014 by Elizabeth Moon
* *First Blood* Shattered Shields, ed. Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Jennifer Brozen, Baen Books, November 2014
* *Mercenary's Honor* Operation Arcana, ed. John Joseph Adams, Baen Books, eARC Dec 2014, print March 2015
* *All in a Day's Work* Infinite Stars, ed. Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Titan Books, ebook and print October 17, 2017. (\* Reprinted in Lunar Activity) (§ Reprinted in Phases) (# Reprinted in Deeds of Honor)

### Collections

* *Lunar Activity* ( March 1990)—Ten short stories
* *Phases* (December 1997)—Eight stories from *Lunar Activity*, and others previously uncollected.

both include “Those Who Walk in Darkness”—a *Paksenarrion* short story

* *Moon Flights* ( August 2008)—Fifteen stories, including an original "Vatta's War" story, with an introduction by Anne McCaffrey
	+ The limited edition hardcover (September 2007) contains an additional rare bonus story entitled "Fencing In".
* *Deeds of Honor: Paksenarrion World Chronicles* (June 2015)—Eight stories set in the world of Paksenarrion.

## Awards and Nominations

* 1989: Compton Crook Award winner for Sheepfarmer's Daughter[12]
* 1997: Hugo Award for Best Novel (nomination) for Remnant Population
* 2003: Nebula Award for Best Novel winner for The Speed of Dark
* 2003: Arthur C. Clarke Award (nomination) for The Speed of Dark
* 2007: Robert A. Heinlein Award for "outstanding published works in hard science fiction or technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space"