Moles, David
Entry updated 6 October 2025. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(? - ) US author, principally of short fiction, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Long Past Midnight" for Say ... #2 in Spring 2003. The protagonist of "Finisterra" (December 2007 F&SF) travels by Starship to an artificial gas giant (see Macrostructure) on an engineering contract; the occupants of Sky (see Colonization of Other Worlds) inhabit and travel by Balloons; her commission is to save from death a floating Island-size creature, one of a vast Archipelago of living and livable habitats, which is sinking planetwards through the great sky; the tale won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. Moles's only novella, Seven Cities of Gold (2010 chap), is set in an Alternate History version of modern South America transformed by its eighth-century colonization by Spanish Catholics (see Jonbar Point) who built the legendary Cities of the title; the Japanese heroine's upriver adventures carry echoes of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (February-April 1899 Blackwood's Magazine; 1925).
Moles edited the Airship-themed anthology All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories (anth 2004) with Jay Lake, and Twenty Epics (anth 2006) with Susan Marie Groppi. [DRL]
David Moles
born California, USA: 5 October [year not given]
works
- Seven Cities of Gold (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2010) [novella: chap: hb/Tomislav Tikulin]
works as editor
- All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories (Wilsonville, Oregon: Wheatland Press/All-Star Stories, 2004) with Jay Lake [anth: Airships: pb/Lara Wells]
- Twenty Epics (Wilsonville, Oregon: Wheatland Press/All-Star Stories, 2006) with Susan Marie Groppi [anth: pb/Lara Wells]
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