Rabbit in the Moon

Rabbit in the Moon. A couple of months ago, I was reviewing the novel shortlist for the 2024 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards, and this title immediately caught my attention.

But it was the author's name that really made me do a double-take: Fiona Moore.

Could that be the same Fiona Moore? I wondered.

When I was a teenager, growing up in the Greater Toronto Area, I used to attend various sci-fi and fantasy conventions, hangouts and even pool parties. That's where I met Fiona Moore. I remembered that when she wasn't dressing up as a short Cyberman from Doctor Who, she would be compiling research about various sci-fi TV shows.

Taking to the internet, I googled her name. In addition to Rabbit in the Moon, I saw she has written Fall Out: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to The Prisoner (one of my favourite TV shows) along with guides to Blake's 7 and Battlestar Galactica. Plus, her Management Lessons from Game of Thrones: Organization Theory and Strategy in Westeros sounds adventurous.

Her website's bio said she's a Professor of Business Anthropology at Royal Holloway, University of London. So I dropped Professor Moore an email and asked if she was the same Fiona I knew on the other side of the Atlantic, back in the 90s.

Indeed, it turned out she was.

Eager to see what an old friend wrote, and loving the book title, my wife ordered me a copy from Bol.com (the Amazon of the Netherlands). A few days ago, I finished reading Rabbit in the Moon to my son, Jonah. I'll give my highly biased review in the next post.

Until then, you can check out Dr. Fiona Moore's fiction and non-fiction publications on her website at fiona-moore.com.

John C.A. Manley

PS Also check out my previous post about Fiona's essay on "Postcolonialism in Late 1980s Doctor Who."