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David Moles

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David Moles
BornCalifornia
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
GenreScience fiction
Website
chrononaut.org

David Moles is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He won the 2008 Theodore Sturgeon Award for his novelette "Finisterra",[1] which was also a finalist for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.[2] He was a finalist for the 2004 John W. Campbell Award.

Life

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Moles was born in California and raised in a number of cities, including San Diego, Athens, Tehran, and Tokyo.[3] He attended the American School in Japan before receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees from the University of California, Santa Cruz and University of Oxford.

Writing

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Moles began writing science fiction and fantasy in 2002. He is best known for his short fiction, which has been published in a number of book anthologies and magazines including Asimov's Science Fiction, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and many more. Moles has won the Theodore Sturgeon Award and has been finalist for the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

In 2006, after Harlan Ellison groped award-winning novelist Connie Willis' breast while on stage at the Anaheim Worldcon Hugo Awards ceremony,[4] Moles condemned fellow SF authors who defended Ellison's actions.[5] However, the quotes Moles used in his blog post were from a private Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America newsgroup, and members attempted to expel Moles from the organization for "breaking the SFWA code of silence." Moles credits then SFWA president Robin Wayne Bailey for reducing his expulsion to censure, "a new process that had to be invented for the occasion."[5]

Awards

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Year Title Award Category Result Ref
2005 "The Third Party" Asimov's Readers' Poll Best Novelette 4
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer 5
2006 Nominations Below Cutoff
2007 Twenty Epics World Fantasy Award Anthology Nominate
2008 "Finisterra" Theodore Sturgeon Award Won
Hugo Awards Best Novelette 5
Locus Award Best Novelette Nominated—18th
2011 Seven Cities of Gold Hugo Awards Best Novella Nominations Below Cutoff
Locus Award Best Novella Nominated—17th
2022 The Metric Locus Award Best Novelette Nominated—27th
Theodore Sturgeon Award Finalist

Bibliography

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Chapterbook

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Anthologies

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Short stories

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References

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  1. ^ "Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award: list of winners". Archived from the original on 2012-07-07. Retrieved 2013-01-03.
  2. ^ Denvention Hugo Nominee List
  3. ^ "Spotlight on David Moles" Locus Magazine, July 28, 2010.
  4. ^ Ron Hogan (August 30, 2006), "Sci-Fi Awards Show Marred By Boorish Groping", Galleycat
  5. ^ a b Patrick Wolohan (August 25, 2009), "INTERVIEW: David Moles", SF Signal
  6. ^ Tilton, Lois (December 7, 2010). "Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early December". Locus. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
  7. ^ Seel, Nigel (April 11, 2011). "Book Review: Engineering Infinity (ed) Jonathan Strahan". ScienceFiction.com. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
  8. ^ Waters, Robert E. (March 8, 2011). "Engineering Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan". Tangent. Archived from the original on April 13, 2017. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
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