C. L. Moore
1911 - 1987
Daughter of Otto
Newman Moore and Maude Estelle Jones, Catherine was raised in
Indianapolis and became a published SF author there in her own
right. A letter to Mr. C. L. Moore from one Henry Kuttner
eventually led to a California visit where the two met at the home of a
friend. A romance blossomed during a period when Henry relocated
to the New York City area, had an enlistment in the Army during WWII
cut short by disability, and talked Catherine into marriage.
The
pair set
up life in Hastings on Hudson, near their prospective markets and began
an outstanding collaboration. When the team thought they had just about
burned themselves out, they decided to relocate to California, where
Henry had been raised, and go to school while exploring the west coast
markets.
Together,
they attended the University of Southern California in 1950 where Henry
graduated in 1954 (with GI bill aid) while Catherine graduated in 1956
after a more modest and affordable pace. When Henry died in 1958, CL
moved into the writing markets of mystery and TV, writing scripts for Maverick,
Alaskans, and 77 Sunset Strip.
PEN NAMES: With
Henry Kuttner, at least 17 jointly; however, Catherine was the
dominant, if not sole, author when Lawrence O'Donnell was used. The
true collaborative pen name was Lewis Padgett. The team also used:
Edward J. Bellin, Paul Edmonds, Noel Gardner, Will Garth (house name),
James Hall, Keith Hammond, Hudson Hastings, Peter Horn, Kelvin Kent,
Robert O. Kenyon, C. H. Liddell, K. Hugh Maepenn, Scott Morgan, Woodrow
Wilson Smith, & Charles Stoddard.
Novels
Beyond
Earth's Gate
|
Well of
the Worlds
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Doomsday Morning
Richard Powers
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Earth's Last Citadel
Alex Schomburg
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The Mask of Circe
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Mutant
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Beyond Earth's Gates
Well of the Worlds
Cliff
Sawyer, an agent for the Canadian Royal Atomic Energy Commission,
investigates some very strange goings-on at a uranium mine near the
North Pole. He, a mysterious woman named Klai, and a power-obsessed
madman named Alper are somehow whisked to the other-dimensional world
of Khom'ad, where three life-forms seem to be in a state of imminent
warfare. There are the Isier, the demigodlike lords of the planet; the
Sselli, a snakelike people; and the Firebirds, strange, winged energy
creatures whose sudden appearance at the polar uranium mine seemed to
touch off the whole mess. Not to mention the poor Khom, the humanlike
underdogs of the planet.
Doomsday
Morning
The
U.S. is run by Comus [Communications U.S.] and there is rebellion
in California against it`s control. Howard Rohan is the greatest actor
in the U.S. and Comus sends him there to learn about the forces behind
the rebellion.
Earth's Last
Citadel
Four
humans from the Twentieth Century are hurled a billion years
forward in time by a being from an alien galaxy. They have been brought
to a dying Earth- to Carcasilla, Earth's last citadel- where the
mutated remnants of humanity are making their final stand against the
monstrous creations of the fading world.
The
Mask of Circe
Jay
Seward remembered a former life in a land of magic, gods and
goddesses - a time when he was Jason of lolcus, sailing in the
enchanted ship Argo to steal the Golden Fleece from the serpent-temples
of Apollo.
Mutant
Collections
Northwest
of Earth |
Shambleau and Others
|
Line to
Tomorrow |
Northwest Smith and Other Stories
Jim Burns
|
|
Black God's Shadow
Alicia Austin
(Sketch)
|
Jirey of Joiry
|
The Best of C. L. Moore
Greg & Tim Hildebrandt |
Shambleau and
Others
Black God's Kiss
Black God's
Shadow
Black Thirst
Jirel Meets Magic
Scarlet Dream
Shambleau
Had
Northwest Smith been able to forsee the future, he would not have
shielded the frightened, scarlet-clad girl from the wild mob pursuing
her through the streets of Lakkdarol, Earth's latest colony on Mars.
"Shambleau! Shambleau!" the crowd cried with loathing and disgust, but
Smith drove them offand took the exhausted girl to his quarters. There
was no hair upon her face - neither brows nor lashes, but what lay
hidden beneath the tight scarlet turban bound around her head? So
begins one of the strangest, and possibly the most famous, of stories
by C.L.Moore, one of today's most talented writers in the field of
science-fiction.
The Tree of Life
Northwest of Earth
The Cold Gray God
The Dark Land
Dust of Gods
Hellsgarde
Julhi
Lost Paradise
Yvala
Shabmleau
Black Thirst
Shambleau
Tree of Life
Jirel of Jory
Black God's Kiss
Black God's Shadow
The Dark Land
Hellsgarde
Jirel Meets Magic
The Best of C L Moore
Black God's Kiss
Black Thirst
The Bright Illusion
Daemon
Fruit
of Knowledge
Greater Than Gods
No Woman Born
Shambleau
Tryst in Time
Vintage
Season
Northwest Smith and Other Stories
Black Thirst
The Cold Gray God
Dust of Gods
Julhi
Scarlet Dream
Shambleau
Song in a Minor Key
The Tree of Life
YvL
Chestboard
Planet and other Stories
Camouflage
Android
Or Else
Judgement
Night
Judgement Night
A
terrrible weapon (the Lens of Death) stand poised to destroy
the universe. Only one woman stands between
the destruction of her world and a man that is torn between his love
for her, and his desire to obliterate her people. Juille: The rightful
heiress to the ruling galaxy.
"This race alone, of all thinking species, finds deity in itself, in
the warm closed circle of it own unity. Once it gains the little
foothold it needs on which to found its soaring possibilites, this race
alone need not depend upon the gods." - so intones the Ilar in the
temple of the ancients.
Paradise Street
Promised Land
The Code
Heir Apparent
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