Catherine L. Moore

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Catherine Lucile Moore , most often CL Moore or her most recent books Catherine L. Moore (born January 24, 1911 in Indianapolis ; died April 4, 1987 in Hollywood , California ) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer .

Life

Moore was the daughter of Otto Newman Moore and Maude Estelle, nee Jones.

Moore had already published three short stories in the student literary magazine The Vagabond in November 1930 as a student at Indiana University . Her literary career actually began with Shambleau , her first science fiction story published in a Pulp magazine , which is also her most famous. Well known is the anecdote of how Farnsworth Wright , then the editor of Weird Tales , took a few pages out of the pile of junk manuscripts and threw them to E. Hoffman Price, one of his authors. He reads the story of a certain CL Moore and exclaims: “By God, Plato, who is CL Moore? He, she or it is colossal! ”Whereupon the two declare a C. L. Moore day and take time off.

Not only was the editor impressed, but readers were also delighted when the story came out in November 1933, including another Weird Tales writer , HP Lovecraft , who was downright enthusiastic:

“Shambleau is great stuff. It begins magnificently, on just the right note of terror, and with black intimations of the unknown. The subtle evil of the Entity, as suggested by the unexplained horror of the people, is extremely powerful — and the description of the Thing itself when unmasked is no letdown. It has real atmosphere and tension — rare things amidst the pulp traditions of brisk, cheerful, staccato prose and lifeless stock characters and images. The one major fault is the conventional interplanetary setting. "

“Shambleau is great stuff. It starts off great, with just the right touch of horror and dark hints of the unknown. The creature's subtle malevolence, hinted at by people's horror without being explained, is eminently effective - and the description of the creature after the covers have fallen is no disappointment either. There is really atmosphere and tension - a rarity in the midst of all the brisk, hammered booklet prose with its lifeless standard figures and images. The only flaw is the conventional science fiction framework "

- HP Lovecraft : The Yes Album

According to Moore, the story originated as an act of the unconscious or as a result of inspiration. She had been forced to leave university because of the economic crisis, had worked as chief secretary at the Fletcher Trust Company in Indianapolis since 1930 and was just typing when she began to write, as if by about a "red, running figure," a half-remembered line of poetry, perhaps from William Morris , as Moore said. She went on writing, and from this fragmentary, semi-automatic writing, Shambleau emerged .

The protagonist of Shambleau is Northwest Smith , a villain and smuggler in the tradition of numerous western heroes , at home on all planets, preferably to be found where the law is hardly applicable. With him Moore had found one of her main characters and further stories with Northwest Smith were to follow. The other main character of Moore first appeared in the story The Kiss of the Black God (1934). The red-haired warrior Jirel von Joiry is the feudal ruler in a fantastic Middle Ages, who does not prevail in her battles by the sword, but by her inner strength.

Through the circle of Lovecraft correspondents, Moore had come into contact in 1936 with Henry Kuttner, a young author who had published some Lovecraft-style horror stories. He was very surprised when it turned out that the person behind the initials "CL" was a woman. The two met for the first time in 1938 and a friendship developed that was continued with letters and occasional meetings - Kuttner was then living in New York , but often drove across the continent to the west coast, where he had his roots, and visited the Moore Trail in Indianapolis. As early as 1937, there was a literary encounter in the form of a collaboration, Quest of the Star Stone , in which the two protagonists Moores, Northwest Smith and Jirel von Joiry meet in a crossover . In this otherwise not in every respect successful story Northwest Smith sings the song "The green hills of the earth", the one with the verses

To see across the darkness
The green hills of Earth

ends. The memorable verse became the title of one of Robert A. Heinlein's best-known works , the 1951 collection The Green Hills of the Earth with the cover story.

On June 7, 1940, Moore and Kuttner married in New York. Looking back at her physically unimpressive husband, Moore said, “Northwest Smith would have been a very boring husband. Henry Kuttner, as his work shows and his friends testify, was wonderfully resourceful, attentive, original in his views and very, very funny. "

The time of the intensive and close cooperation began with the marriage - so close that the two often could no longer say who had written what. All works from the 1940s and 1950s are therefore to be regarded as joint works, the author's name under which they were published can only be a clue, in particular the pseudonyms Lewis Padgett and Lawrence O'Donnell were used jointly. The couple complemented each other and one compensated for each other's weaknesses, so Kuttner was better at getting started, Moore was easier to come to an end, Kuttner was better at developing arcs, Moore was better at writing, and so on.

The special quality and intensity of the collaboration is almost unique. Damon Knight wrote:

“[...] two apparently irreconcilable talents merged. Kuttner's earlier work was clever and somewhat superficial, well constructed but devoid of real substance; Moore had written atmospheric fantasy, suggestive, but a bit thin [...] together they wrote stories in which Kuttner's solidly crafted arcs of storyline carried Moore's poetic richness of images. "

And Barry Malzberg :

“Their styles harmonized completely […] they were the greatest team of authors in the history of literary collaboration. Like Gilbert & Sullivan , Frazier & Ali , the 1978 Red Sox and the Yankees , they brought out the best in each other. "

The couple lived in New York for about a year, then moved to Laguna Beach , California. When the war broke out, Kuttner was not suitable for combat missions due to a heart murmur and was therefore stationed as a military medic in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey , from 1942 , while Catherine lived nearby in Red Bank .

After the war, the Kuttners moved to Hastings-on-Hudson, New York State , where they bought a house. In 1948, Kuttner's heart disease caused the couple to move back to Laguna Beach in the milder climate of California.

In the years after 1955, Kuttner and Moore's literary production was significantly reduced. You had written a number of detective novels with the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Michael Gray. Allegedly, at least two of the four novels are supposed to be the work of ghostwriters. Kuttner was able to study at the University of Southern California with a scholarship on the basis of the GI Bill , Moore also took up a degree, made his bachelor's degree in 1956 with honorary memberships with Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi and graduated with a master’s degree in 1964 . According to Barry Malzberg, Kuttner and Moore intended to get out of the business of writing for pulp magazines altogether and wanted to work as psychotherapists in the future. These plans came to an end when Kuttner died in February 1958, at the age of only 42, presumably of a heart attack .

After Kuttner's death in 1958, she did not publish any more stories, but worked as a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Southern California until 1961 , was also a freelance screenwriter and fulfilled the scriptwriting assignments that were still in place at the time of Kuttner's death. In 1963 she married the doctor Thomas Reggie. She died in 1987 at the age of 76 after being severely restricted in her final years by the effects of Alzheimer's disease.

Your story was filmed in 1992 by David Twohy under the title Timescape . In Germany the film was released on DVD under the title Timescape - Im Wettlauf gegen die Zeit .

Awards and honors

In 1956 she and Kuttner were nominated for the Hugo Award with the story Home There's No Returning . Her story Werewoman (1938) was nominated for the Retro Hugo Award in 2016 and the story There Shall Be Darkness (1942) for the Retro Hugos 2018.

In 1976 Moore was the guest of honor at the 2nd World Fantasy Convention .

bibliography

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first volume. If two years of publication are given for the original editions, the first is that of the first edition and the second that of the first edition (as a book).

Northwest Smith (short story series)
  • Shambleau (1933)
    • German: Shambleau. Translated by Chr. Nogly. In: Michel Parry (ed.): Devilish kisses. Pabel (Vampir Taschenbuch # 64), 1978. Also as: Shambleau. Translated by Irene Holicki. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Heyne Science Fiction Annual Volume 1982. Heyne SF&F # 3870, 1982, ISBN 3-453-30756-9 . Also in: The kiss of the black god. 1982. Also called: Shambleau. In: HR Giger (Ed.): Vampirric. Festa (Festa Nosferatu # 1404), 2003, ISBN 3-935822-58-8 .
  • Black Thirst (1934)
    • German: Schwarzer Durst. In: The kiss of the black god. 1982.
  • Scarlet Dream (1934)
  • Dust of the Gods (1934)
  • Julhi (1935)
  • Nymph of Darkness (1935, also as Nyusa, Nymph of Darkness , with Forrest J. Ackerman)
  • The Cold Gray God (1935)
  • Yvala (1936, with Forrest J. Ackerman as Amaryllis Ackerman)
  • Lost Paradise (1936)
  • The Tree of Life (1936)
  • Werewoman (1938)
  • Song in a Minor Key (1940)
  • Northwest of Earth (1954, collection)
  • Shambleau (1958, collection)
  • Scarlet Dream (1981, collection, also as Northwest Smith , 1982)
  • Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith (2008, collection)
  • Northwest of Earth (2011, collection)
Cover of the October 1934 issue of Weird Tales magazine with the story The Black God's Kiss .
Jirel of Joiry (short story series)
  • Black God's Kiss (1934)
    • English: The kiss of the black god. 1976. Also as: The kiss of the black god. In: Jirel, the Amazon. 1976. Also as: The kiss of the black god. In: The kiss of the black god . 1982. Also in: The kiss of the black god . 2002.
  • Black God's Shadow (1934)
    • German: The shadow of the black god. In: Jirel, the Amazon. 1976. Also in: Jirel, the Amazon. 2002.
  • Jirel Meets Magic (1935)
    • German: The Tower of the Worlds. Translated by Lore Straßl. In: Jirel, the Amazon. 1976. Also in: Jirel, the Amazon. 2002.
  • The Dark Land (1936)
    • German: The Dark Land. Translated by Lore Straßl. In: Hugh Walker (Ed.): Swords, Schemas and Shamans. Pabel (Terra Fantasy # 32), 1977. Also in: Jirel, die Amazone . 2002.
  • Quest of the Starstone (1937, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German: The secret of the star stone. Translated by Lore Straßl. In: Jirel, the Amazon. 2002.
  • Hell's Guard (1939)
  • Jirel of Joiry (1969, collection, also called Black God's Shadow , 1977)
  • Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams (2002)
  • Black God's Kiss (2007, collection)

German compilations:

  • Jirel, the Amazon. Pabel (Terra Fantasy # 25), 1976.
  • Jirel, the Amazon. Festa (Festa Dark Fantasy # 1102), 2002, ISBN 3-935822-44-8 .
Keeps (with Henry Kuttner)
  • 1 Clash by Night (1943, short story)
    • German [as Lawrence O'Donnell]: Up from the depths. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 14. Ullstein 2000 # 24 (2889), 1972, ISBN 3-548-02889-6 .
    • German [as Lawrence O'Donnell]: Decision after the battle. In: Isaac Asimov , Martin H. Greenberg (eds.): The best stories from 1943. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6724), 1982, ISBN 3-8118-6724-5 .
  • 2 Fury (1947, as Lawrence O'Donnell, 1950, also as Destination: Infinity , 1958)
    • German: All the time in the world . Moewig (Terra Sonderband # 53/54) 1962. Also as: Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5716, 1979, ISBN 3-426-05716-6 .
Baldy (short story series, with Henry Kuttner, also as Lewis Padgett)
  • The Piper's Son (1945)
  • Three Blind Mice (1945)
  • The Lion and the Unicorn (1945)
  • Beggars in Velvet (1945)
  • Mutant (1953, collection)
    • German [as Lewis Padgett]: The Mutants. In: Lewis Padgett: The Mutants. Heyne SF&F # 3065, 1966.
  • Humpty Dumpty (1953)
    • German [as Lewis Padgett]: witch hunt. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 10. Ullstein 2000 # 15 (2860), 1972, ISBN 3-548-02860-8 .
Hogben (short story series, with Henry Kuttner)
  • 2 Exit the Professor (1947)
  • 4 See You Later (1949)
  • 5 Cold War (1949)
Novels
  • Earth's Last Citadel (1943, with Henry Kuttner)
    • English: The fountain of immortality. Moewig (Terra # 450), 1966.
  • Judgment Night (1943, 1952)
    • German: The night of judgment. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Adventure # 23045, 1985, ISBN 3-404-23045-0 .
  • Beyond Earth's Gates (1949, also as The Portal in the Picture , 1954, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Doomsday Morning (1957)
Collections
  • A Gnome There Was and Other Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy (1950, with Henry Kuttner, as Lewis Padgett)
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and the Fairy Chessmen (1951, with Henry Kuttner, as Lewis Padgett)
  • Judgment Night (1952)
  • Shambleau and Others (1953)
  • Line to Tomorrow (1954, with Henry Kuttner, as Lewis Padgett)
  • No Boundaries (1955, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Shambleau (1961)
  • Conversation from the Future and Other Stories [German] (1970, with Henry Kuttner, as Henry Kuttner)
  • The Best of CL Moore (1975, edited by Lester del Rey )
    • German: The kiss of the black god. Heyne SF&F # 3874, 1982, ISBN 3-453-30760-7 . Also called: Shambleau. Heyne (Library of Science Fiction Literature # 77), 1982, ISBN 3-453-03929-7 .
  • Clash by Night and Other Stories (1980, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Chessboard Planet and Other Stories (1983, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Two-Handed Engine (2005, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Miracle in Three Dimensions (2008)
  • Greater Than Gods and Tryst in Time (2009)
  • Detour to Otherness (2010, with Henry Kuttner)
Short stories
  • Happily Ever After (1930)
  • Semira (1930)
  • Two Fantasies (1930)
  • The Bright Illusion (1934)
    • English: The shiny mirage. In: The kiss of the black god. 1982.
  • Greater Glories (1935)
  • The Challenge from Beyond (Part 1 of 5, 1935)
    • English: The threat from outer space. In: Frank Festa (Ed.): The Lovecraft Circle. Blitz (HP Lovecraft's Library of Secrets # 2603), 2000, ISBN 3-932171-89-6 .
  • Tryst in Time (1936)
    • German: Tryst in time. In: The kiss of the black god. 1982.
  • Miracle in Three Dimensions (1939) [also as Catherine L. Moore]
  • Greater Than Gods (1939)
    • German: bigger than the gods. In: The kiss of the black god. 1982. Also as: Mightier than the gods. In: Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg (eds.): The best stories from 1939. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6727), 1982, ISBN 3-8118-6727-X .
  • All Is Illusion (1940, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Fruit of Knowledge (1940)
    • German: fruit of knowledge. In: The kiss of the black god. 1982.
  • A Gnome There Was (1941, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German: Once upon a time there was a dwarf. In: Isaac Asimov (ed.): The best stories from 1941. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6713), 1981, ISBN 3-8118-6713-X .
  • There Shall Be Darkness (1942)
    • German: No light on the horizon. In: Martin Greenberg (Ed.): 8 Science Fiction Stories. Heyne (Heyne Anthologies # 8), 1964.
  • Deadlock (1942, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German [as Lewis Padgett]: question and answer. In: Martin Greenberg (Ed.): The robots and us. Moewig (Terra special volume # 50), 1962.
  • The Twonky (1942, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German [as Henry Kuttner]: The Twonky. In: Henry Kuttner: Conversation from the future and other stories. Moewig (Terra Nova # 143), 1970. Also called: The Twonky. In: Peter Haining (Ed.): Dangerous antics. Heyne SF&F # 5909, 1997, ISBN 3-453-13343-9 .
  • Compliments of the Author (1942, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Piggy Bank (1942, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Nothing But Gingerbread Left (1943, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Mimsy Were the Borogoves (1943, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German [as Lewis Padgett]: Mimsy Were the Borogoves. In: Gotthard Günther (Ed.): Overcoming space and time. Rauch (Rauch's Space Books # 3), 1952. Also as: Gar elump was the Pluckerwank. In: Robert Silverberg , Wolfgang Jeschke (Eds.): Titan 9. Heyne SF&F # 3614, 1978, ISBN 3-453-30522-1 .
  • Shock (1943, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German [as Henry Kuttner]: shock therapy. In: Henry Kuttner: Conversation from the future and other stories. Moewig (Terra Nova # 143), 1970.
  • Open Secret (1943, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Endowment Policy (1943, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Doorway Into Time (1943)
  • The Iron Standard (1943, with Henry Kuttner)
  • The Proud Robot (1943, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German [as Henry Kuttner]: The Crazy Inventor. In: Henry Kuttner: The crazy inventor and other stories. Moewig (Terra # 444), 1966. Also called: The vain robot. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 66. Ullstein 2000 # 127 (3323), 1977, ISBN 3-548-03323-7 .
    • German [as Lewis Padgett]: The vain robot. In: Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg (eds.): The best stories from 1943. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6724), 1982, ISBN 3-8118-6724-5 . Also as: The self-loving robot. In: Hannes Riffel, Jakob Schmidt (eds.): Pandora, Fall 2009. Shayol, 2009, ISBN 978-3-926126-82-5 .
  • The Children's Hour (1944, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German [as Henry Kuttner]: The children's hour. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 17. Ullstein 2000 # 29 (2905), 1972, ISBN 3-548-02905-1 .
  • Housing Problem (1944, with Henry Kuttner)
  • When the Bough Breaks (1944, also as When the Bough Bends , with Henry Kuttner)
  • No Woman Born (1944)
    • German: No woman was ever born. In: Just a Martian Woman and Other Science Fiction Stories. Ullstein, 1959. Also as: Such a woman was never born. In: The kiss of the black god. 1982.
  • Baby Face (1945, with Henry Kuttner)
  • The Code (1945)
  • Camouflage (1945, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German [as Henry Kuttner]: The Transplant. In: Henry Kuttner: Conversation from the future and other stories. Moewig (Terra Nova # 143), 1970. Also [as Lewis Padgett]: The Transplant. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 34. Ullstein 2000 # 63 (3029), 1973, ISBN 3-548-03029-7 .
  • What You Need (1945, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German [as Henry Kuttner]: What you need ... In: Henry Kuttner: Conversation from the future and other stories. Moewig (Terra Nova # 143), 1970.
  • Line to Tomorrow (1945, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German [as Henry Kuttner]: Conversation from the future. In: Henry Kuttner: Conversation from the future and other stories. Moewig (Terra Nova # 143), 1970.
  • The Fairy Chessmen (1946, also as Chessboard Planet , 1956, also as The Far Reality , 1963, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German [as Lewis Padgett]: Dangerous chess game. Pabel (Utopia Grossband # 108), 1959. Also called: Stress. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 22. Ullstein 2000 # 39 (2943), 1973, ISBN 3-548-02943-4 .
  • This Is the House (1946, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German [as Henry Kuttner]: The bewitched house. In: Henry Kuttner: The crazy inventor and other stories. Moewig (Terra # 444), 1966. Also [as Lawrence O'Donnell]: The Whispering House. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 10. Ullstein 2000 # 15 (2860), 1972, ISBN 3-548-02860-8 .
  • The Dark Angel (1946, with Henry Kuttner)
  • We Kill People (1946, with Henry Kuttner, as Lewis Padgett)
  • The Cure (1946, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Rain Check (1946, with Henry Kuttner, as Lewis Padgett)
  • Absalom (1946, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Call Him Demon (1946, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German [as Henry Kuttner]: Maybe a demon. In: Terry Carr , Martin Harry Greenberg (eds.): Dream realm of magic: highlights of modern fantasy. Heyne SF&F # 4254, 1985, ISBN 3-453-31262-7 .
  • The Little Things (1946, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Vintage Season (1946, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German: grape harvest. In: Ben Bova , Wolfgang Jeschke (eds.): Titan 11. Heyne SF&F # 3651, 1979, ISBN 3-453-30564-7 . Also called: grape harvest. In: The kiss of the black god. 1982.
  • Daemon (1946)
    • German: The demon. In: The kiss of the black god. 1982.
  • Time Enough (1946, with Henry Kuttner, as Lewis Padgett)
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1947, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Juke-Box (1947, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Project (1947, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Jesting Pilot (1947, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German [as Henry Kuttner]: Special treatment. In: HJ Alpers (Ed.): Metropolis brennt !. Moewig Science Fiction # 3591, 1982, ISBN 3-8118-3591-2 .
  • Dream's End (1947, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Margin for Error (1947, with Henry Kuttner) [only as Lewis Padgett]
  • Happy Ending (1948, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Private Eye (1949, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German: Spürauge. In: Helmuth W. Mommers , Arnulf D. Krauß (Ed.): 10 Science Fiction Kriminal-Stories. Heyne (Heyne Anthologies # 11), 1965.
  • The Prisoner in the Skull (1949, with Henry Kuttner) [only as Lewis Padgett]
  • Promised Land (1950) [also as Lawrence O'Donnell]
  • Heir Apparent (1950)
  • The Sky Is Falling (1950, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German [as Henry Kuttner]: Donner on Mars. In: Henry Kuttner: The crazy inventor and other stories. Moewig (Terra # 444), 1966.
  • Paradise Street (1950) [also as Lawrence O'Donnell]
  • Carry Me Home (1950, with Henry Kuttner)
  • The Odyssey of Yiggar Throlg (1951, with Henry Kuttner) [only as CH Liddell]
  • Golden Apple (1951, with Henry Kuttner) [only as CH Liddell]
  • Android (1951, also as Those Among Us , with Henry Kuttner)
    • German [as Henry Kuttner]: The Androide. In: Arnulf D. Krauss, Helmuth W. Mommers (Ed.): 7 Science Fiction Stories. Heyne (Heyne Anthologies # 17), 1966.
  • We Shall Come Back (1951, with Henry Kuttner) [also as CH Liddell]
  • The Ego Machine (1952, with Henry Kuttner)
  • A Wild Surmise (1953, with Henry Kuttner)
  • The Visitors (1953, also as De Profundis , with Henry Kuttner)
  • Home Is the Hunter (1953, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German [as Henry Kuttner]: End of the hunt. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 34. Ullstein 2000 # 63 (3029), 1973, ISBN 3-548-03029-7 .
  • Or Else (1953, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Chapter 6 (1954, with Henry Kuttner) [only as Lewis Padgett]
  • Home There's No Returning (1955, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Two-Handed Engine (1955, with Henry Kuttner)
    • German [as Lewis Padgett]: The Avenger on his heels. In: Helmuth W. Mommers, Arnulf D. Krauß (Ed.): 10 Science Fiction Kriminal-Stories. Heyne (Heyne Anthologies # 11), 1965.
  • Rite of Passage (1956, with Henry Kuttner)
  • Here lies ... (1956)
  • Near Miss (1958, with Henry Kuttner)

Film adaptations

literature

Monographs
  • Jennifer Jodell: Mediating Moore: Uncertain Origins and Indeterminate Identities in the Work of CL Moore . Dissertation Washington University in St. Louis 2010, All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) # 784, online .
  • Virgil Utter Jr., Gordon Benson, Phil Stephensen-Payne: Catherine Lucille Moore & Henry Kuttner: A Marriage of Souls and Talent: A Working Bibliography. 4th ed. Galactic Central, Leeds 1996, ISBN 1-871133-44-0 .
Lexicons
items
  • Raffaella Baccolini: In-Between Subjects: CL Moore's 'No Woman Born'. In: Karen Sawyer, John Moore: Science Fiction, Critical Frontiers. St. Martin's Press, New York 2000, pp. 140-153.
  • Thomas Bertonneau: The Aspect of an Old Pattern: CL Moore's Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry as Paracletic Heroes. In: New York Review of Science Fiction December 2007, 232. pp. 1, 8-17.
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley : CL Moore: An Appreciation. In: Locus # 326, Vol. 21, No. 3 March 1988, p. 69.
  • Thomas A. Bredehoft: Origin Stories: Feminist Science Fiction and CL Moore's “Shambleau”. In: Science Fiction Studies , Vol. 24, No. 3 (Nov. 1997), JSTOR 4240642 , pp. 369-386.
  • Lester del Rey : Forty Years of CL Moore. In: CL Moore: The Best of CL Moore. Nelson Doubleday / SFBC, 1975.
  • Suzy McKee Charnas: Where No Man Had Gone Before . In: CL Moore: Black God's Kiss. Paizo Publishing (Planet Stories # 3), 2007, ISBN 978-1-60125-045-2 .
  • Sarah Gamble: "Shambleau ... and others": The Role of the Female in the Fiction of CL Moore. In: Lucie Armitt (Ed.): Where No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction. Routledge, New York & London 1991, pp. 29-49.
  • Susan Gubar: CL Moore and the Conventions of Women's Science Fiction. In: Science Fiction Studies , Vol. 7, No. 1, Science Fiction on Women, Science Fiction by Women (March 1980), JSTOR 4239307 , pp. 16-27. Also in: Arthur B. Evans: Vintage Visions: Essays on Early Science Fiction. Wesleyan University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-8195-7439-8 , pp. 325-341.
  • James Gunn : Henry Kuttner, CL Moore, et al. In: (ders.): The Science of Science Fiction Writing. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD 2000, pp. 171-199.
  • Patricia Mathews: CL Moore's Classic Science Fiction. In: Tom Staicar: The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It. Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., New York 1982, pp. 14-24.
  • CL Moore: Footnote to "Shambleau" ... and Others. In: (dies.): The Best of CL Moore . Edited by Lester del Rey . Nelson Doubleday / SFBC, 1975.
  • Sam Moskowitz : Seekers of Tomorrow: Masters of Modern Science Fiction. Hyperion, Westport, Conn. 1974, ISBN 0-88355-158-6 , pp. 319-335.
  • Michele Osherow: The Dawn of a New Lilith: Revisionary Mythmaking in Women's Science Fiction. In: NWSA Journal , Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring, 2000), JSTOR 4316709 , pp. 68-83.
  • Natalie M. Rosinsky: CL Moore's 'Shambleau': Woman as Alien or Alienated Woman? In: Selected Proceedings of the 1978 SFRA National Conference 1979. pp. 68-74.
  • Debra Benita Shaw: 'No Woman Born': CL Moore's Dancing Cyborg. In: (dies.): Women, Science and Fiction: The Frankenstein Inheritance. Palgrave, New York 2000, pp. 65-90.
  • Frederick Shroyer: CL Moore and Henry Kuttner. In: Everett Franklin Bleiler (Ed.): Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors From the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. Scribner, New York 1982, ISBN 0-684-16740-9 , pp. 161-167.
  • Bud Webster: Past Masters: A Kuttner Above the Rest (But Wait, There's Moore!) ( Jim Baen's Universe , June 2009, accessed April 11, 2018)
  • Thomas L. Wymer: Feminism, Technology, and Art in CL Moore's 'No Woman Born'. In: Extrapolation (2006), pp. 51-67.

Web links

Commons : Catherine Lucille Moore  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Catherine L. Moore  - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The middle name occasionally appears as Lucille .
  2. ^ "Plato" was Farnsworth's nickname.
  3. ↑ Sam Moskowitz: Seekers of Tomorrow. Hyperion, 1974, p. 303 f.
  4. ↑ Sam Moskowitz: Seekers of Tomorrow. Hyperion, 1974, p. 304.
  5. ↑ CL Moore: Footnote to "Shambleau" ... and Others. In: (dies.): The Best of CL Moore . Edited by Lester del Rey . Nelson Doubleday / SFBC, 1975. See Susan Gubar: CL Moore and the Conventions of Women's Science Fiction. In: Science Fiction Studies , Vol. 7, No. 1, Science Fiction on Women, Science Fiction by Women (March 1980), JSTOR 4239307 , p. 17.
  6. ^ "Northwest Smith would have been a very boring man to be married to. Henry Kuttner, as his writing must show and his friends could testify, was wonderfully resourceful, perceptive, fresh in his viewpoints and very, very funny. ”Quoted from: Sam Moskowitz: Seekers of Tomorrow. Hyperion, 1974, p. 313.
  7. ↑ Sam Moskowitz: Seekers of Tomorrow. Hyperion, 1974, p. 313.
  8. ↑ "[...] two seemingly discordant talents merged. Kuttner's previous stories had been superficial and clever, well constructed but without much content or conviction; Moore had written moody fantasies, meaningful but a little thin […] working together, they began to turn out stories in which the practical solidity of Kuttner's plots seemed to provide a vessel for Moore's poetic imagination. ”Quoted from: Bud Webster: A Kuttner Above the Rest (But Wait, There's Moore!) In: Jim Baen's Universe , June 2009.
  9. ↑ "Their styles meshed totally [...] they were the greatest collaborative writers in the history of collaboration. Like Gilbert & Sullivan, Frazier & Ali, the 1978 Red Sox and Yankees they brought out the best in one another. "Quoted from: Bud Webster: A Kuttner Above the Rest (But Wait, There's Moore!) In: Jim Baen's Universe , June 2009.
  10. ↑ Bud Webster: A Kuttner Above the Rest (But Wait, There's Moore!) In: Jim Baen's Universe , June 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Moore, Catherine L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moore, Catherine Lucile (full name); Moore, Catherine Lucille (alternative spelling); Moore, CL (alternative spelling); Kuttner, Catherine (married name); Liddell, CH (pseudonym); Moore, Kathleen (pseudonym); O'Donnell, Lawrence (pen name); Padgett, Lewis (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction and fantasy writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Indianapolis
DATE OF DEATH April 4th 1987
Place of death Hollywood , California