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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦
@drfionamoore.bsky.social

BSFA Award winning SFF author represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency. Anthropologist who wandered into a business school. Author of Management Lessons from Game of Thrones (2022).

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Fiona Moore is a Canadian academic, writer and critic based in London (UK). She is best known for writing works of TV criticism, short fiction, stage and audio plays, and academic texts on the anthropology of business and organisations. Her research work has been described by Professor Roger Goodman at the University of Oxford's Nissan Institute as "engaging head-on with the growing and increasingly complex literature on transnationalism and globalisation and relating it constructively to key ideas in symbolic anthropology." A graduate of the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford, she is Chair of Business Anthropology at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2020, she was shortlisted for the BSFA Award for Shorter Fiction, and in 2023 she won the BSFA Award for Short Non-Fiction. .. more

Business 31%
Communication & Media Studies 20%
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Updated my calling card again.

Looks like the technology *is* going away then-- a couple of generations of this and there'll be no humans to use it!

Many people in SFF circles will know Helena, through her conrunning, book club organising, writing, critiquing and just generally being there. She has suffered a terrible tragedy over the holidays and needs our help. Please give if you can.

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Thank you! The technology is still not there, but only just-- I could imagine this happening in the next 5-10 years.

Free words ahoy!
A little light reading for your Friday? You can read the first chapter of my novella, Peace and Love, online or download a PDF: huskyteer.co.uk/peaceandlove... ☮️💜 #FurryWriting

I maintain that we were robbed by having only one Frankenstein film with Ralph Bates-- I would have loved seeing him work his way through remakes of the Cushing movies.

Hawkeye is near-unique in being a Canadian TV production made before the 1990s that had an international audience and distribution. CW for ethnic stereotypes, but it is also very sympathetic to the Natives, and the fact that a bunch of people have just showed up and taken their land without asking.
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When I was born my mother, a skilled medical professional, was given a choice between going back to work after six weeks' leave, or losing her job.
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?

I really miss her. But she had a good long life, and I went out of my way to make the last months of it really enjoyable for her.

My senior cat Ayesha, who was the inspiration for the tortie in this story, recently passed away at the age of 17. So I'm really glad this piece is out there as a memorial.
Today we are spotlighting a dialogue-driven piece from our new cat issue 🦝
We loved how @drfionamoore.bsky.social used conversation to tell this all-too-possible story, the build up and reveal are masterfully handled. We also love a microbe here at TCL 🦠

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I guess I won't be reading this one then! I have mixed feelings towards Powers, I enjoy some of his books (even though his historical characters tend to feel a little modern to me) but others, e.g. The Drawing of the Dark, didn't work for me.

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Today we are spotlighting a dialogue-driven piece from our new cat issue 🦝
We loved how @drfionamoore.bsky.social used conversation to tell this all-too-possible story, the build up and reveal are masterfully handled. We also love a microbe here at TCL 🦠

trashcatlit.com/the-omega-cat/

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Comedy, soap, adventure and history box sets, a fabulous 7-DVD bundle and much more! Head over now and grab a bargain! buff.ly/337CpqM

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A little light reading for your Friday? You can read the first chapter of my novella, Peace and Love, online or download a PDF: huskyteer.co.uk/peaceandlove... ☮️💜 #FurryWriting

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A very short watchlist of films that probably should have had a sequel or five. Suggestions welcome – but make the case.

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This should have led to a long running series
Films that I've noticed people saying ought to have triggered a run of sequels, or about which I think that myself. At least a TV spinoff. Come on. If you want to make suggestions, don't just say the ...
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Toy Photo Story: Nutcracker versus Mouse King: The Legendary Battle

As promised, I am working on a post about a snowy road trip I took this weekend, but first have this toy photo story, which I created as I am waiting to be snowed in by the blizzard that's rolling in from the East. You may…
Toy Photo Story: Nutcracker versus Mouse King: The Legendary Battle
As promised, I am working on a post about a snowy road trip I took this weekend, but first have this toy photo story, which I created as I am waiting to be snowed in by the blizzard that's rolling in from the East. You may remember that I bought the Figura Obscura Mouse King action figure from Four Horsemen Studios and that I reviewed him for File 770. The Mouse King figure also came with the head of his mortal enemy, the Nutcracker, as a special surprise gift.
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Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?

The UK experience has been that such people always claim they're going to FLEE THE COUNTRY but, when the tax or levy comes in, they stay, pay it, and grumble while still enjoying the benefits of the improved infrastructure.

Other than Doctor Who, I'd say Hell Drivers. He's such a bastard!

iPhone Robot

Foundation Garment

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Tech titans divided over whether to pay billionaire tax or flee California
Tech titans divided over whether to pay billionaire tax or flee California
State residents worth more than $1bn could face one-off, 5% tax to help fund education, food assistance and healthcare
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Adequacy of bike locks doesn't matter, if a thief's determined, they'll get through it. It's more having one at all that matters. So not going to lock-shame anyone.

New on my blog: the last of my holiday stories, Misrule. It's got a Morag and Seamus vibe, but filtered through folk horror: adoctorofmanythings.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/s...
Stories for the Holidays: Misrule
Twelfth Night is traditionally the end of the holidays, so let’s celebrate with the last of the Stories for the Holidays: Misrule. This is a story that’s getting more pertinent by the m…
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"Greetings! I come as a representative of the Planet Earth to extend the hand of friendship and to warn you not to waste your money on watching Avatar: Fire And Ash."

Exactly. And cars weren't actually better than carriages-- I have a folder full of contemporary jokes about how awful Model Ts were. Slow, always breaking down, dreadful suspension.

Also, for what it's worth, five years ago I would have said that hybrid- and video-conferencing were becoming normative and would dominate the sector in the future. But now, most people have reverted back to in-person events, except in cases where they have to use video for practical reasons.

They're being adopted only because they've been inserted into almost every programme that people use daily, and again, that wasn't inevitable. That was a deliberate choice by manufacturers, and also is the result of a number of other things that weren't inevitable, e.g. the MS Office near-monopoly.

We do. Plus we've had 75+ years of a teleological narrative about the inevitability of technological change, which means people usually just accept the soundbites without thinking about them.

Coda: It also occurs to me to say that carriage drivers have *never* entirely gone out of business. If you don't believe me, go to Oktoberfest, or Central Park in tourist season, or attend a sulky or gig race. The funeral home near me does horse-drawn hearses. So there. 6/5.