Main article: The Deed of Paksenarrion The Deed of Paksenarrion novels Heinlein Award for 'outstanding published works in hard science fiction or technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space' Clarke Award (nomination) for The Speed of Dark

2003: Nebula Award for Best Novel winner for The Speed of Dark.

1997: Hugo Award for Best Novel (nomination) for Remnant Population.

1989: Compton Crook Award winner for Sheepfarmer's Daughter.

Moon is also an experienced paramedic and has served in various capacities in local government. She is an accomplished fencer, and captain of the SFWA Musketeers, a group of published speculative fiction authors who also fence.

She has a musical background, having played the accordion during her university days and sung in choirs. Other interests Įlizabeth Moon has many interests besides writing. Her Nebula-winning novel The Speed of Dark (2003) is a near-future story told from the viewpoint of an autistic data analyst, inspired by her own autistic son Michael. Most of her work has military science fiction themes, although biology, politics, and personal relationships also feature strongly. Her first novel The Sheepfarmer's Daughter (1988) won the Compton Crook Award and inaugurated the Paksenarrion series. Her stories appeared regularly in Analog the next few years. In 1986, she published her first science fiction in the monthly magazine Analog and the anthology series Sword and Sorceress.

Moon began writing professionally in her mid-thirties and had a newspaper column in a county weekly newspaper. Moon at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention, Glasgow, August 2005 Writing career She married Richard Sloan Moon in 1969 and they have a son, Michael, born in 1983. In 1968, she joined the United States Marine Corps as a computer specialist, attaining the rank of 1st Lieutenant while on active duty. She earned a Bachelor's degree in History from Rice University in Houston, Texas in 1968 and later earned a second B.A. She was inspired to write creatively, and says that she began writing science fiction in her teens, considering it a sideline. She started writing when she was a child and first tried a book, which was about her dog, at age six. Moon was born Susan Elizabeth Norris and grew up in McAllen, Texas. Prior to her writing career, she served in the United States Marine Corps.

Her novel The Speed of Dark won the 2003 Nebula Award. Her other writing includes newspaper columns and opinion pieces. Military science fiction, science fiction, fantasyĮlizabeth Moon (born March 7, 1945) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

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