Fiona Moore | |
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Occupation | Academic, writer |
Citizenship | Canada |
Alma mater | University of Toronto, University of Oxford |
Subject | anthropology, science fiction |
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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.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)Alastair Preston Reynolds is a British science fiction author. He specialises in hard science fiction and space opera. He spent his early years in Cornwall, moved back to Wales before going to Newcastle University, where he studied physics and astronomy. Afterwards, he earned a PhD in astrophysics from the University of St Andrews. In 1991, he moved to Noordwijk in the Netherlands where he met his wife Josette. There, he worked for the European Space Research and Technology Centre until 2004 when he left to pursue writing full-time. He returned to Wales in 2008 and lives near Cardiff.
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