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C.L. Moore


Born
in Indianapolis, Indiana, The United States
January 24, 1911

Died
April 04, 1987

Website

Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy


Excerpted from Wikipedia:
Catherine Lucille Moore was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, as C. L. Moore. She was one of the first women to write in the genre, and paved the way for many other female writers in speculative fiction.

Moore met Henry Kuttner, also a science fiction writer, in 1936 when he wrote her a fan letter (mistakenly thinking that "C. L. Moore" was a man), and they married in 1940.
Afterwards, almost all of their stories were written in collaboration under various pseudonyms, most commonly Lewis Padgett (another pseudonym, one Moore often employed for works that involved little or no collaboration, was Lawrence O'Donnell). ...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 18,186 ratings · 1,931 reviews · 309 distinct works • Similar authors
Jirel of Joiry
3.71 avg rating — 1,562 ratings — published 1934 — 24 editions
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Black God's Kiss
3.74 avg rating — 573 ratings — published 1982 — 14 editions
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The Best of C.L. Moore
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4.08 avg rating — 466 ratings — published 1975 — 13 editions
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Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams
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Shambleau
3.76 avg rating — 395 ratings — published 1933 — 26 editions
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Northwest of Earth: The Com...
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Northwest Smith
3.84 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 1982 — 8 editions
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Earth's Last Citadel
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3.11 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1943 — 14 editions
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Doomsday Morning
3.57 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 1957 — 5 editions
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Judgment Night
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“The explorers and the drifters and the spacehands are misfits mostly, and, therefore, men of imagination. The contrast between the rigid functionalism inside a spaceship and the immeasurable glories outside is too great not to have a name. So whenever you stand in a ship’s control room and look out into the bottomless dark where the blinding planets turn and the stars swim motionless in space, you are taking a walk down Paradise Street.”
― C.L. Moore, Judgment Night
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“He shook his head at the bright world in the sky. He would have to get over the habit of regarding the heavens as a chart with a glittering pinhead for each planet, and so many thousand Thresholders, ex-Earth-born, bred for the ecology of alien worlds, pinned up there upon the black velvet backdrop for study and control. It wasn’t his problem any more.”
― C.L. Moore, Judgment Night
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“This was what the loss of civilization really meant. For the first time the full impact of the Galaxy’s great loss overwhelmed her. So long as she could see those lost worlds she might hope to win them back, but to be struck blind like this was to lose them forever. She knew a sudden agony of homesickness for all the planets she might never see again, a sudden terrible nostalgia for the lost, familiar worlds, for the fathomless seas of space between them. Ericon’s eternal greenness was hateful, strangling in its tiny limitations.”
― C.L. Moore, Judgment Night
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Polls

Vote for the Nov-Dec Groupread theme. We'll have the top two themes, and they'll be based on names of authors and cover artists. Bonus street cred goes to folks who pick books that have both cover artists and author sharing names.

Michael: Anything by Michael Moorcock, or cover art by Michael Whelan. Any other Michael's are fair game too
 
  6 votes, 20.7%

William: How about some classics by William Hope Hodgson or William Morris?
 
  5 votes, 17.2%

Catherine: C.L. Moore or anything with a Catherine" Jeffrey Jones cover.
 
  3 votes, 10.3%

James; James Enge or James A. Moore would work
 
  3 votes, 10.3%

Charles:Charles R. Saunders or Charles Moll (did some Moorcock covers)
 
  2 votes, 6.9%

John: John Jakes plus John Duillo (artist on Conan of the Isles, Conan the Freebooter, Conan the Wanderer)
 
  2 votes, 6.9%

 
  2 votes, 6.9%

"Quillifer" by Walter Jon Williams (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 6.9%

Robert:
Robert Lynn Asprin or Robert E. Howard or Robert Gould (did some Elric/MM covers)
 
  1 vote, 3.4%

Raymond: Raymond E. Feist and Ray Bradbury and covers by Raymond Swanland
 
  1 vote, 3.4%

Michael Whelan, and specifically with Brandon Sanderson (Stormlight Archeive)
 
  1 vote, 3.4%

Raymond
 
  1 vote, 3.4%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Julie:J.V. Jones or Boris Vellejo's partner in art : Julie Bell
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Jan: Janet E. Morris and C. J. Cherryh (J = Janice), and Janny Wurts
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

29 total votes
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