{"id":29294,"date":"2025-03-10T04:50:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=29294"},"modified":"2025-03-13T07:23:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T14:23:42","slug":"elizabeth-moon-crafting-strong-female-protagonists-in-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/10\/elizabeth-moon-crafting-strong-female-protagonists-in-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Moon: Crafting Strong Female Protagonists in Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HTWTF-Episode-143-Blog-Post-Images-2.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29295 size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Elizabeth Moon: Crafting Strong Female Protagonists in Science Fiction\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HTWTF-Episode-143-Blog-Post-Images-2.png\" alt=\"Image of a book with lights and stars coming out of it for Elizabeth Moon: Crafting Strong Female Protagonists in Science Fiction\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HTWTF-Episode-143-Blog-Post-Images-2.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HTWTF-Episode-143-Blog-Post-Images-2-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29296 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HTWTF-Episode-143-Blog-Post-Images-1.png\" alt=\"Quote from Elizabeth Moon: Crafting Strong Female Protagonists in Science Fiction\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HTWTF-Episode-143-Blog-Post-Images-1.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HTWTF-Episode-143-Blog-Post-Images-1-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elizabeth Moon: Crafting Strong Female Protagonists in Science Fiction &#8211; How To Write the Future podcast, episode 143<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo I highly recommend Elizabeth Moon, if you like military ship captains who are these strong, interesting women. I also really adored her fantasy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this episode, titled \u201cElizabeth Moon: Crafting Strong Female Protagonists in Science Fiction\u201d host Beth Barany shines a spotlight on one of her favorite science fiction and fantasy authors and shares her favorite works by Moon, including &#8220;Once A Hero&#8221; and the &#8220;Kai Vata&#8221; series, highlighting the author\u2019s masterful creation of strong female protagonists, particularly in military sci-fi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"discussion-level-1 discussion-id-1b3b1dc8-7380-803b-bfb8-001c1aafadb6 notion-enable-hover\" data-token-index=\"0\">More<\/span> about Elizabeth Moon: <a class=\"notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-token-index=\"2\"><span class=\"link-annotation-unknown-block-id--380238227\">http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/<\/span><\/a><!-- notionvc: 47682c0e-7276-4c2b-b711-f5be6c95eedd --><\/p>\n<p>Platforms The podcast is available on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/143-elizabeth-moon-crafting-strong-female-protagonists\/id1641025914?i=1000698548313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\/episodes\/16761930-143-elizabeth-moon-crafting-strong-female-protagonists-in-science-fiction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buzzsprout<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/7D6yAeKzpqYnZxa517qNu8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcastaddict.com\/episode\/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzsprout.com%2F2012061%2Fepisodes%2F16761930-143-elizabeth-moon-crafting-strong-female-protagonists-in-science-fiction.mp3&amp;podcastId=4025186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Podcast Addict<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/ca590618-5630-4450-aa17-7e2f35359a76\/episodes\/da62bcb4-23e3-42e7-b5a3-7a5aeaa167e3\/how-to-write-the-future-143-elizabeth-moon-crafting-strong-female-protagonists-in-science-fiction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ycOWHShQ8oU?si=Fi2wh4ygpd2MKq_u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ycOWHShQ8oU?si=LX75OJH6Fs5gzFkh\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' charset='utf-8' src='https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061.js?container_id=buzzsprout-large-player&#038;player=large'><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RESOURCES\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Free World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Sign up for the 30-minute Story Success Clinic with Beth Barany:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Get support for your fiction writing by a novelist and writing teacher and coach. Schedule an exploratory call here and see if Beth can support you today:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/discovery-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/discovery-call\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About the How To Write the Future podcast<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How To Write The Future<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> podcast is for science fiction and fantasy writers who want to write positive futures and successfully bring those stories out into the marketplace. Hosted by Beth Barany, science fiction novelist and creativity coach for writers. We cover tips for fiction writers. This podcast is for readers too if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for you if you have questions like:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I create a believable world for my science fiction story?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I figure out what&#8217;s not working if my story feels flat?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I make my story more interesting and alive?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for readers too if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transcript for\u00a0 Elizabeth Moon: Crafting Strong Female Protagonists in Science Fiction\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey everyone. I am Beth Barany and I host How to Write the Future Podcast. I&#8217;m a science fiction and fantasy writer, and a book coach and writing teacher. I specialize in helping science fiction and fantasy writers write, publish, edit, and market their novels to the delight of their readers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I help you build fabulous worlds and really knock the socks off your readers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[00:28] Spotlight on Elizabeth Moon\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, so today I am here to talk to you about one of my favorite science fiction and fantasy authors: Elizabeth Moon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Surrounding me is six, seven books by Elizabeth Moon Plus. Uh, no. Eight, eight books by Elizabeth Moon, one by Elizabeth Moon and Anne McCaffrey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;ll have to talk about Anne McCaffrey in another episode. Also a deep influence, to me and someone I read when I was a teenager.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I started reading Elizabeth Moon as an adult and I absolutely adore her work. She writes science fiction and fantasy, and I actually met her science fiction first. Whenever I describe Elizabeth Moon to people, I say that she writes kick ass military space pilots, and I love that. I love kick ass military, space captains, all of her main characters are captains, women captains in this far future, Earth is a distant, vague memory, if it&#8217;s even mentioned. And also she writes fabulous extended families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So books will have different women protagonists who belong to a big family.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[01:45] Favorite Books by Elizabeth Moon\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, my absolute favorite book of hers that I&#8217;ve read, reread multiple times is called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once A Hero<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It&#8217;s called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once A Hero<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and it actually has a sequel that I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve read multiple times. I&#8217;m not sure. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rules of Engagement.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And both of these are part of a greater series.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[02:06] Kai Vata Series Overview\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, the other books in her sci-fi that I just absolutely adore features a character, that has been reoccurring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I&#8217;m gonna pop out here for you. This one. Oh yeah. Kylara Vata. Here&#8217;s this one. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trading in Danger<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marque and Reprisal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And then there was a big gap in time, both for Elizabeth Moon as a writer. She was writing other things. There&#8217;s also a gap in this main character&#8217;s life: Kai Vata, who at first, defies her family&#8217;s expectations. She&#8217;s supposed to go into business, into the space shipping business, but instead she goes to military academy and rises through the ranks there and has all kinds of fabulous adventures and then we get, which is the first one? Yeah. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cold Welcome<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now she has risen through the ranks and she is now an admiral. And these came out fairly recently. In the second book, in that series is<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Into the Fire<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And I don&#8217;t think the third book has come out because I am waiting for it and I haven&#8217;t seen it yet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[03:09] Elizabeth Moon&#8217;s Standalone and Biography\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So she also has a standalone book that I highly recommend called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remnant Populatio<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">n.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is so interesting about this book is the main character is an old woman who&#8217;s been left on this planet and has no patience for tom foolery and the voice in this book is just so wonderful. Elizabeth Moon was one of the first women in the Marine Corps in 1967. She is so interesting. You can go to her website and read her bio and I&#8217;ll just tell it to you here what she has on her bio. &#8220;Elizabeth Moon grew up in South Texas a few miles from the Mexican border, giving her early experience with major cultural differences and leading to a lifelong fascination of how culture shapes individuals and how they adapt or don&#8217;t to new experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cShe has degrees in both history from Rice University with several courses in cultural anthropology on the side, plus biology at University of Texas. She served three years active duty in the Marine Corps between the two degrees during which she worked with what were then quite large computers and did graduate work and biology at the University of Texas at San Antonio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cShe married a husband while both were in the military. They have one adult son.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s a lot more there about her. You can read on her bio page. I really admire Elizabeth Moon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[04:34] Meeting Elizabeth Moon and Fantasy Works\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I got to meet Elizabeth Moon at a book signing in San Francisco some years ago. That was really fun.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I highly recommend Elizabeth Moon, if you like military ship captains who are these strong, interesting women. I also really adored her fantasy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And do I have one of them with me? I thought I had one. ah we go. Book one. She has this fabulous series, called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Deed of Parksenarian<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the first one is called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sheep&#8217;s Farmer&#8217;s Daughter<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And the tagline is, she dared to become a legend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Really, wonderful, wonderful series. I have to say, I am partial to her science fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[05:11] Conclusion and Writing Tips\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that is today&#8217;s episode on one of my very favorite science fiction of fantasy writers, Elizabeth Moon, with whom, I am patiently waiting or for her next book, after, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Into the Fire <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cold Welcome<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[05:24] Ready to Edit Checklist\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right. if you are curious about improving your science fiction and fantasy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m gonna offer up today another goodie that I don&#8217;t think I have offered in this podcast for a while. It&#8217;s my Ready To Edit checklist. This is for people who are not sure if they&#8217;re ready to edit their manuscript or not. So go ahead and check out the checklist to see if you are indeed ready. The checklist comes with six items on the checklist, and it comes with six little videos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right. Hope you enjoy that. That&#8217;s it for this week, everyone. Write long and prosper.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loved this episode? 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