Fiona Moore

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Fiona Moore
OccupationAcademic, writer
CitizenshipCanada
Alma mater University of Toronto, University of Oxford
Subjectanthropology, science fiction
Website
fiona-moore.com

Fiona Moore [1] is a Canadian academic, writer and critic based in London (UK). [2] 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 writing team [3] and the coauthor of the "50 Things About..." column in Celestial Toyroom [4] ), and academic texts on the anthropology of business and organisations. [5] 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" [6] A graduate of the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford, she is Chair of Business Anthropology at Royal Holloway, University of London. [7] In 2020, she was shortlisted for the BSFA Award for Shorter Fiction.

Contents

Bibliography

Non-fiction books

Academic publications

Novels

Short fiction and poetry

Stage and audio work

Kaldor City

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 Film Festival, 2011.
  • Storm Mine (stage version), with Alan Stevens and Daniel O'Mahony. Lass O'Gowrie Productions. Performed at the Manchester Fringe Festival 2012.

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