John F. Moore (born June 15, 1959) is an American engineer and a writer of fantasy and science fiction primarily under the short name John Moore.

Works

At college Moore became interested in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and after a year decided to write a story and send it to the magazine. It was not accepted, but he did receive a letter from assistant editor Darrell Schweitzer from which he learned of fanzine and science fiction conventions. Moore joined the Fandom Association of Central Texas (FACT), began attending workshops for writers participating in the Writers of the Future contest, and wrote his first serious fiction.

Moore's early stories were mostly science fiction thrillers. These include the techno-thriller Heat Sink, written in 1991 but only published in 2010 as an e-book. It describes a near future in which Canadian and Russian scientists try to melt the polar ice to gain access to new oil fields. Moore's earliest published story in the ISFDB catalog is "Bad Chance", a two-page item in the January 1986 issue of Space and Time. As for his other novels, Slay and Rescue is available in all three languages; The Unhandsome Prince in Czech and Russian, and Heroics for Beginners in Czech and German. Heroics for Beginners and Bad Prince Charlie were also published in Poland.

Works

The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) is a source for all listings except where noted otherwise.

  • The Lightning Horse (2014)
  • "Sight Unseen" (Aboriginal SF, October 1986)
  • "Trackdown" (Aboriginal SF, February–March 1987) (as by John F. Moore)
  • "Lineage" (Salarius: New Age Science Fiction and Fantasy Talent, May 1987) (as by John F. Moore)
  • "Freeze Frame" (New Destinies, Volume VI, Winter 1988)
  • "If Jesus Loves You" (Nøctulpa #3, February 1988)
  • "High Fast Fish" (L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume IV, June 1988)
  • "Mindset" (Beyond #14, 1989) (as by John F. Moore)
  • "Bio-Inferno" (Starshore, Summer 1990)
  • "The Great Pickle Caper" (Starshore, Fall 1990)
  • "A Match on the Moon" (Figment #3, April 1990)
  • "The Worgs" (Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy, Summer 1990) (as by John F. Moore)
  • "Hell on Earth" (Aboriginal Science Fiction, January–February 1991)
  • "Sacrificial Lamb" (Aboriginal Science Fiction, Summer 1992)
  • "A Job for a Professional" (Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, October 1993)
  • "Excerpts from the Diary of Samuel Pepys" (Realms of Fantasy, April 1995)
  • "Doorway to Hell" (The Anthology from Hell: Humorous Tales from WAY Down Under, March 2012)
  • "High Noon Zombies" (Flush Fiction, Volume II: Twenty Years of Letting It Go!, May 2016)

Nonfiction

  • "Wastelandian Symbolism in Rory Harper's Petrogypsies" (1989)
  • "An Archaeology of the Future: Ursula Le Guin and Anarcho-Primitivism" (1995)
  • "Shifting Frontiers: Mapping Cyberpunk and the American South" (1996)
  • "Miracle Stalker: Personal and Social Transformation in Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic" (1997)

References

  • Text of the novel Heat Sink
  • "Slay and Rescue" (1993) in the Library of Congress Online Catalog – select "Moore, John" for works, including his first five novels, by this and other John Moores whom LC has not yet differentiated (2014-07-27)