David Moles

David Moles is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He won the 2008 Theodore Sturgeon Award for his novelette "Finisterra", which was also a finalist for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. He was a finalist for the 2004 John W. Campbell Award.

Life

Moles was born in California and raised in a number of cities, including San Diego, Athens, Tehran, and Tokyo. He attended the American School in Japan before receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees from the University of California, Santa Cruz and University of Oxford.

Writing

Moles began writing science fiction and fantasy in 2002. He is best known for his short fiction, which has been published in a number of book anthologies and magazines including Asimov's Science Fiction, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and many more. Moles has won the Theodore Sturgeon Award and has been finalist for the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

In 2006, after Harlan Ellison groped award-winning novelist Connie Willis' breast while on stage at the Anaheim Worldcon Hugo Awards ceremony, Moles condemned fellow SF authors who defended Ellison's actions. However, the quotes Moles used in his blog post were from a private Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America newsgroup, and members attempted to expel Moles from the organization for "breaking the SFWA code of silence." Moles credits then SFWA president Robin Wayne Bailey for reducing his expulsion to censure, "a new process that had to be invented for the occasion." Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois, and War & Space: Recent Combat, edited by Rich Horton and Sean Wallace. "Chitai Heiki Koronbin" - The Future Is Japanese (2012), edited by Nick Mamatas and Masumi Washington.