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Mike Moscoe's latest book, The Price of Peace, continues his far future
science fiction saga full of starships and human struggle begun with The
First Casualty. Look for Who Stand and Wait coming in January. With Lost
Days, Mike completed the story he started in First Dawn and Second Fire,
but not Launa and Jack's adventures 6,000 years ago. Analog recently published
Mike's latest novelette, about his toddler granddaughter's future first
job, delivering pizza. . . on the moon. He lives in Vancouver, Washington,
with his wife Ellen. He enjoys reading, writing, watching grand-children
for story ideas and upgrading his computer--all are never ending.
[Cybling] Welcome Mike!
[Moscoe] hi all!
[Cybling] If you have questions for our guest, please just ask. But please, let the guest answer one question before you ask another.
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[Cybling] Mike...you recently published a story in Analog...a Days Work on the Moon...
[Cybling] can you tell us a little about it?
[Moscoe] My son gave up on giving me ferrits in stead of grand kids
[Cybling] lol
[Moscoe] So, last year I ended up holding this cute little girl, called nikki
[Moscoe] That left me wondering what kind of first job she'd get when she was 16 and looking
[Moscoe] for that very first employment.
[Moscoe] Her dad delivered pizza.
[Moscoe] I figured the perfect job for Nikki was delivering Pizza also.
[Moscoe] Only she'd delivering to folks workingon the moon.
[Moscoe] Bummer is she's doing if from her folks house outside Portland.
[Moscoe] Buy hey, she's working on the moon, rigtht.
[Cybling] Which issue did this appear in Mike?
[Moscoe] Buy hey, she's working on the moon, rigtht.
[Moscoe] The July/
[Moscoe] August issue
[Cybling] folks...like I said, Mike is a very big guy and one of his hands is about the size of the...
[Cybling] keyboard...so watch out for major typos.
[Cybling] Okay. Mike The August Issue...may still be on the stands...
* Ryan chuckles.
[Cybling] and if not it can be ordered from Analog.
[Cybling] Okay Your latests book, the Price of Peace...when did this come out to the shelves.
[Moscoe] It was a January release from Ace. It's got some nice reviews on Amazon.com as did The first Casualty
[Cybling] Excellent...it's a continuation of your story First Casualty?
[Moscoe] Not really.
[Moscoe] You see, I had these two charactors
[Moscoe] You see, I had these two charactors
[Moscoe] They were a lot of fun, heavily armed,
[Cybling] lol
[Moscoe] and doing their best to take over first casualty
[Moscoe] However, I had four other charactors, also heavily armed
[Moscoe] and the figured First Casualty was theres.
[Moscoe] So, Trouble and Izzy got their own book.
[Moscoe] Theirs is the joys of serving in a victorious, down sized, er,
[Moscoe] No, I mean right sized navy
[Moscoe] Trouble is a marine, born and raised.
[Moscoe] Never wanted to be anything but a line animal,
[Moscoe] To his major embarrassment, He's been taken by slavers and drug lords not
[Moscoe] once but twice.
[Moscoe] That would be bad enough, but it seems that every time
[Moscoe] he does wake up hung over and drugged, he's got this same woman chained to
[Moscoe] him. And he's starting to like her.
[Cybling] Mike, you're on a couple of panels today....Alternate Prehistory is one of them.
[Cybling] Sorry...that's friday. Interesting concept. I can't get my brain around it.
[Cybling] What would Alternate Prehistory be?
[Moscoe] In my first trilogy, I was looking at having two west point trained officers help the
[Moscoe] peaceful goddess worshiping farmers beat back the horse raiding Kurgans.
[Moscoe] That would have changed not only pre but also History.
[Moscoe] What we're going to look at on that panel is the way
[Moscoe] we keep learning more and more
[Moscoe] about our history, our genome and
[Moscoe] how that is changing our knowledge of who we were and who we ARE.
[Cybling] Folks...please pop your questions about SF, Mike's writing, writing SF, etc.
[Cybling] Ooops...Mike has to run.
[Cybling] Do we have a final question for Mike?
[Cybling] i have one...
[Ryan] Hmm... What interested you in starships and such?
[Moscoe] I picked up Heinlien's Rocket Ship Gallileo. One book and I was lost. After that
[Moscoe] all I wanted to read was the books marked with rocket ships in the libarary.
[Cybling] Okay, folks....let's give Mike a hand for joining us out here on the first day of the Convention.
* Cybling applauds
[Cybling] Mike, I'll be in touch with you about getting you out to Cybling in the near future!
* Ryan smiles.
[Ryan] Thanks for coming, Mike.
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