Moyer, J D
Entry updated 25 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US composer of electronic music and author, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Beef" in Strange Horizons for May 2016. The Reclaimed Earth sequence beginning with The Sky Woman (2018) is set in a moderately distant Near Future after a complexly-caused set of Disasters, including one supervolcano, has devastated and depopulated planet Earth; Space Opera topoi animate a populous Solar System, with Space Stations and Space Habitats making up a highly elaborated high-tech biome for Homo sapiens survivors, on lines contiguous with works by John Varley, Alistair Reynolds, and others. The Icelandic Cure (2018 chap), a standalone novella, traces the consequences of a Genetic Engineering breakthrough in Near Future Iceland. [JC]
J D Moyer
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Reclaimed Earth
- The Sky Woman (New York: Flame Tree Press, 2018) [Reclaimed Earth: hb/]
- The Guardian (New York: Flame Tree Press, 2019) [Reclaimed Earth: hb/]
- The Last Crucible (New York: Flame Tree Press, 2021) [Reclaimed Earth: hb/]
individual titles
- The Icelandic Cure (Omnidawn Publishing, 2018) [chap: pb/Christian Gloor]
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