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Elizabeth Moon
American
Author
About the author
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.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#Life
#People
#Problems
#Past
#Fantasy
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#Years
#First
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#World
#Feeling
#Science
#Fiction
Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#Now
#Mother
#Mind
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.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#People
#Old
#Books
So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#Work
#School
#Military
#University
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#Character
#Being
#Science
#Old
#Books
#Fantasy
#Fiction
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.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#Fans
#Writers
It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#Character
#Focus
When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#Books
#Fiction
No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
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.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#People
#World
#Fantasy
When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#Hardware
Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#Physics
#University
In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#Character
#Perceptions
#Ego
I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#School
I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#Writing
#Fiction
One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#Science
I used to not back down from a challenge.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#Challenge
I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#Drugs
I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#Love
#Science
#Fantasy
#Astronomy
I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#Being
#Woman
I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#Open
#Mother
#Women
It 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.
Elizabeth Moon,
American
Author
#May
#Science
#Future
#Fiction