

   Daniel Keys Moran - biography page





A Brief Biography of Daniel Keys Moran

When asked to provide some material for this biography page,
DKM&nbsp;offered:


Daniel Keys Moran is alive, no matter what anyone says. And handsome,
too. 


However, he has also posted quite a bit of personal information
to the continuing-time mailing list, which he joined in December 1994.
You can check out the archive logs yourself;
until you do, here is what I thought was noteworthy:




November 30, 1962
Daniel Keys Moran is born.
Almost nobody notices except his paternal grandmother,
who has been waiting for it, and dies.

July 20, 1969

 

Men land on the moon. This is Daniel Keys Moran's first clear memory
of the outside world; sitting, at the age of six, on his father's lap,
and watching on television as men walked on the moon.



In 1975, 
Daniel Keys Moran invented the Continuing Time.
He sold his first story,"All the Time in the World", in 1980,
and his first novel, "The Armageddon Blues". in 1986.



In 1995, Dan gave a couple of speeches, married Heather McConnell
(his former editor at Bantam), and suffered food poisoning (and recovered).


In 1996, he moved back to Los Angeles from NYC, got in a motorcycle
accident on the 101 freeway (and came off (relatively) unscathed
(besides a bunch of bruises and a broken leg)), and attended the

Worldcon in LA.



Here's a sort of summary that DKM made of his skills and abilities:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
"Right now I can write and lay out a brochure in Ventura or Corel Draw,
program in four different languages and eight or ten different environments,
build a computer out of parts, design and implement and install a several-
hundred-node network, write novels and screenplays, do good standup comedy
and give fairly rousing speeches (mostly on politics), paint tolerably well,
speak and write Spanish passably and read it easily, and read Latin and
French very very slowly ..."

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
"... I love to dance and at one time considered taking it up
professionally (at one time or another I've considered taking up
everything professionally -- and if I could carry a tune to save my
life I'd be a rock and roll singer; that story in the Star Wars anthology 
is more than a little autobiographical)..." 
 
  -- Daniel Keys Moran, in a mailing on Friday, Sept. 01, 1995



Dan is also a computer consultant, and self-confessed nerd
technological savant. Here's what he uses:

He prefers Windows NT systems, but, as mentioned above, can
work with others. He likes Microsoft Access as a database, Corel Draw
as a graphics program, and Microsoft Word as a word processor. 
Borland Delphi is his programming language of choice, though he did
once write a primitive prototype version of Ralf in Prolog.
He's done various odd jobs as a computer consultant, most of which are 
pretty mundane, but there was an amusing incident where he performed 
a security hack while working in
New York City. Recently, he has been playing around with 3D graphics
rendering while working with the company "Queen of Angels".




 Here's a bunch of quotes that
Dan is interested in.  It's somewhat long at 40K.

 There's also 
DKM's recommended reading list
(and other comments on other authors).



What else is Dan interested in?




     Babylon 5, an Excellent television show
   

    The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5

     Official Babylon 5 Page

     Babylon 5 Addicts Page
   




Zen Buddhism
   (he was married in a Buddhist ceremony in Jun of 1995)
   
   
   Sunsite (University of North Carolina) Zen Information archive)
   
   Zen Garden
   




The singer 
     Melissa Etheridge.



  Politics. Here's the Thomas
  Jefferson Archive of Legislative Information. Dan's
  political views
  are in the nonfiction archives.



Basketball in general. The  
 Los Angeles Lakers are his favorite team.




Anything else you wish to know, you should 
ask him.



If you want to see what DKM looks (looked) like, here are some pictures:



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DKM and his sister Jodi in 1971. Size=126K.
There is a medium size version of
this image on the Terminal Freedom back cover.


DKM in 1987.



DKM at the L.A. Worldcon in 1996. (Photos by Stan Burns, copyright 1996
Southern California Institute for Fan Interests, Inc.)





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