Allen Moore


Polyglot, ecologist, writer, Mac Wizard, multitalented musician, electrician, plumber, accountant, analytic reader - the list goes on. Allen is a good guy to have around when we get him away from a very busy retirement that includes bag piping, diatom research and writing science fiction novels.
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ISBN-13: 9780060932268
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Published: Harper Perennial, 11/01/2000
Lighthouses are such a fixture of the North Carolina coast that we take them for granted, but the concept and the technology was developed in England and Scotland, largely through the perseverance and genius of the family Stevenson. Robert Louis Stevenson was a scion of this family, and a disappointment to his father when he showed little interest or aptitude for engineering, showing a bent instead for frivolous pursuits (such as writing classics of English literature). I learned here that lighthouses were not universally admired -- whole towns made their living by salvaging (or pillaging) wrecked ships, and a light to warn away their economic base was the last thing their people wanted. The places where lighthouses needed to be built were another challenge -- the descriptions of the violence of the sea on these exposed headlands makes enthralling reading.

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ISBN-13: 9780425103289
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Published: Berkley, 01/01/1987

The Sparrow (Paperback)

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ISBN-13: 9780449912553
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Published: Ballantine Books, 09/01/1997

Dirt Music (Hardcover)

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ISBN-13: 9780743228022
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Published: Scribner Book Company, 04/01/2002
This off-beat Down Under adventure begins in an insular and newly-wealthy fishing village with its own rough ways of enforcing the monopoly on status of the locals, and ends up traversing an awful lot of Australia. The characters are tortured and strange and have some grisly secrets, but their struggles with themselves and each other make enthralling, and ultimately satisfying, reading.

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ISBN-13: 9780393307054
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 08/01/1990

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ISBN-13: 9780743245456
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Published: Free Press, 01/01/2004
This book is a rare bird: a true adventure about birdwatching. It follows the tribulations of three unlikely competitors, locked in a struggle to beat a previous record and tally the most bird species seen by an individual in North America in a single calendar year -- a record "Big Year" in birding parlance. The author is himself a competent birder, and the story is told authoritatively and with unfailing dry humor. The competitors are quirky and driven, and I soon was caught up in their shared obsession. I learned a lot about birds -- and more about birders. -- Allen Moore

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ISBN-13: 9780803731530
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Published: Dial, 10/01/2006
Alice was framed! A refugee princess from a Wonderland brutally conquered by her aunt, the Red Queen, Alice Heart tries to tell her story to the Reverend Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), but he thinks she's making it up and converts her story into a pretty fantasy. The reality is much grimmer, as Alice seeks to right the wrongs and defeat the evil Red Queen and her deadly shape-shifting minion, the Cheshire Cat. Definitely not for children, but highly recommended!
- Allen Moore

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ISBN-13: 9780743264730
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 04/01/2007
The charming portrait of the young Einstein on the cover is a fair foretaste of the contents of this highly readable new look at this iconic scientist. There's plenty about the science to cut through the mystery of what he accomplished - and what he didn't: though he originated the concept of photons as quanta, he never accepted the fundamentals of quantum physics and spent the last half of his life searching in vain for a field theory to displace it. And though he was a gentle and supportive mentor to young physicists, he could be chillingly detached from the people closest to him. But on balance, it seems the man earned much of the adulation he received during his lifetime.
- Allen Moore

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