Fiona Moore is a Canadian academic, writer and critic based in London (UK). She is best known for writing works of TV criticism, short fiction, stage and audio plays (being one of the original members of the
Magic Bullet Productions
Magic Bullet Productions is an independent audio-production company formed in 2000 by Alan Stevens, focusing on ''Doctor Who'' and ''Blake's 7'' spinoff audios. Originally set up to produce the Kaldor City audios, in 2004 they acquired the right ...
writing team and the coauthor of the "50 Things About..." column in Celestial Toyroom), and academic texts on the anthropology of business and organisations. Her research work has been described by Professor Roger Goodman at the University of Oxford's Nissan Institute as "engaging head-on with the growing and increasingly complex literature on transnationalism and globalisation and relating it constructively to key ideas in symbolic anthropology" A graduate of the
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 ...
and the
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
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, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
, she is Chair of Business Anthropology at
Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2020, she was shortlisted for the
BSFA
The British Science Fiction Association Limited is an organisation founded in 1958 by a group of British academics, science fiction fans, authors, publishers and booksellers, in order to promote the writing, criticism, and study of science fiction ...
Award for Shorter Fiction.
Bibliography
Non-fiction books
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Short fiction and poetry
* "Ghost," On Spec (Fall 1996)
* "Skull Duggery," with Alan Stevens, Shelf Life, edited by Jay Eales et al., Factor Fiction Press, 2008
* "Stone Roach", Asimov Magazine, (September 2011)
* "The Kindly Race", British Fantasy Society Journal, Spring 2012 (reprinted in the 2014
World Fantasy Convention
The World Fantasy Convention is an annual convention of professionals, collectors, and others interested in the field of fantasy. The World Fantasy Awards are presented at the event. Other features include an art show, a dealer's room, and an ...
anthology Unconventional Fantasy, ed.
Peggy Rae Sapienza)
* "Rabbit Season", in Blood and Water, ed. Hayden Trenholm, Toronto: Bundoran Press, 2012.
Aurora Award
The Aurora Awards (french: Prix Aurora-Boréal) are a set of primarily literary awards given annually for the best Canadian science fiction or fantasy professional and fan works and achievements from the previous year."Literary glow of Auroras lure ...
Winner (Best Related Work), 2013.
* "Mouse Trap", Perihelion SF, July 2013
* "The Egg Man", in Sanity Clause is Coming, London: Fringeworks Press, 2014.
* "The Confession of Whistling Dixie", Unlikely Story 11, February 2015
* "Leave Only Footprints", Story of the Month Club, March 2015 (reprinted in the 2016 volume A Bakers' Dozen of Magic, ed. Jessica Brawney)
* "Selma Eats", XIII, March 2015
* "Seal", Lazarus Risen, ed. Hayden Trenholm and
Michael Rimar, Toronto: Bundoran Press 2016.
* "Auto Ethnography", EPIC Perspectives, July 2016
* "The Little Car Dreams of Gasoline",
On Spec
''On Spec'' is a digest-sized, perfect-bound, Canadian quarterly magazine publishing stories and poetry in science fiction, fantasy, and allied genres broadly grouped under the "speculative fiction" umbrella.
History and profile
Based in Edmon ...
27 (4), Autumn 2016.
* "The Metaphor",
Interzone, Issue 236, Sept-Oct 2011, reprinted Forever Magazine October 2016
* "Morning in the Republic of America", 49th Parallels, ed.
Hayden Trenholm, Toronto:
Bundoran Press, 2017.
* "Proteus in the City", Nevertheless, ed.
Rhonda Parrish, Toronto: EDGE, 2018
* "Doomed Youth" Interzone 278, November 2018 (reprinted in The Best of British SF 2018,
NewCon Press, ed.
Donna Bond)
* "Every Little Star", Mad Scientist Journal, Winter 2019 (Reviewed:
* "Jolene", Interzone 284, September 2019 (shortlisted for BSFA Award for Shorter Fiction)
Stage and audio work
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Kaldor City
''Kaldor City'' is a series of audio plays using elements from the British TV series ''Doctor Who'' and ''Blake's 7''. Many of the elements borrowed from these series for use in ''Kaldor City'' were originated by Chris Boucher, who wrote for '' ...
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* ''Hidden Persuaders'' (2003) (with
James Cooray Smith)
* ''The Prisoner'' (2006) (with
Alan Stevens)
* ''Metafiction'' (2013) (with
Alan Stevens)
Other audio work
* ''Radio Bastard'' (2012) (with Alan Stevens, Steven Allen and Robert Barringer-Lock)
Stage plays
*''When Travis Met Blake'', with Alan Stevens, 2008. Performed at Aftermath convention, Northampton.
*''Metafiction'' (stage version), with Alan Stevens. Performed at
Sci-Fi-London
Sci-Fi-London (stylised as SCI-FI-LONDON), also known as The London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film or simply SFL, is an annual United Kingdom-based film festival dedicated to the science fiction and fantasy genres. ...
Film Festival, 2011.
*''Storm Mine'' (stage version), with Alan Stevens and
Daniel O'Mahony
Daniel O'Mahony (born 24 July 1973) is a half-British half-Irish author, born in Croydon. He is the oldest of five children, his siblings including Eoin O'Mahony of the band Hamfatter, and Madeleine O'Mahony, who has designed and made hats for Ca ...
. Lass O'Gowrie Productions. Performed at the Manchester Fringe Festival 2012.
References
External links
SF Crowsnest review of On Spec Issue #103Author's website
Kaldor City website*
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Canadian academics
Canadian women non-fiction writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian women short story writers
Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London