On-line Library

Daniel Keys Moran has graciously allowed these files to be available electronically; something for which we are all grateful. Please respect his copyright notices in each of the files, and the fact that he does make a living by writing. Or, to be more precise, he is trying to make a living by writing, and the more stuff you buy legitimately of his, the sooner he will be able to switch to fulltime writing.

Some of these blurbs were written by DKM, some weren't. To clear matters up, I've gone through and stuck -DKM after the blurbs in his voice.

Continuing Time Material

  • CONTTIME.94 is a news release explaining the state of the Continuing Time as of December 1994. -DKM
  • AFTERWRD.ASC is a collection of Afterwards from Emerald Eyes, The Long Run, and The Last Dancer. All were edited, against my wish, by Bantam. -DKM
  • FACE.ASC is "The Face of Night." It was a proposal, originally, for a graphic novel at DC -- an editor over there was quite interested in it, but again, no joy. -DKM
  • LONGRUN.ASC is the ASCII of The Long Run screenplay.
  • LORDNOV.ASC is the ASCII of the prolog and first two chapters of Lord November: The Man-Spacething War.
  • AIWAR.ASC is the ASCII of the first chapter of Players: The AI War.

    Great Wheel of Existence

  • CORRSPO.ASC is a short story written 6 or 7 years ago by my sister and me. It's one of the rare short stories I've ever written; and, looking at it all these years later, it's practically incoherent. I still enjoy it, though. "Correspondence" takes place on the "Sunset Strip" timeline shown at the back of The Last Dancer. There's also a comic strip set in this universe that my sister and I hope to get back to some day. -DKM
  • GIVEN.ASC is "Given the Game," a short story that originally appeared as the cover story of Aboriginal SF.
  • REALTIME.ASC is the text of the short story "Realtime," which was the May 1985 cover of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
  • Terminal Freedom, a limited-edition book being published by DKM, written by him and his sister.

    Other Written Stuff

  • BADNEWS.ASC is an article about the genesis of The Ring movie novelization. It was originally written for SFWA Bulletin, but ended up not being sent to them due to Bantam's unhappiness with the article. -DKM
  • DREAM.ASC is another piece of writing by my sister and me. It was a spec screenplay for what was at that time our favorite television show, HBO's "DREAM ON." We never even got past first base with this one -- despite having a high-power Hollywood agent submit it, we never heard back. We took it as a "no." -DKM
  • Street Angel, a screenplay DKM wrote. He writes, "Several years ago I wrote a screenplay (non-SF) called 'Street Angel.' It was about a homeless man's attempts to get off the street -- It 'nearly' got made -- horseshoes, handgrenades and nukes, etc. At one point I gave David Gerrold the rights to do a novelization of it (he was attached to the project, and wanted to -- and I was sick of the story once I completed the screenplay.) In any event, I've taken it back from David, with an eye toward turning it into a novel; but in the meantime, I'm going to ASCII-ize it and send it off to the various FTP sites, and Sean's web page. I'm turning 33 on Thursday, so consider this a birthday present from the birthday boy." -DKM
  • An incident involving Paramount and Star Trek spinoffs (Deep Space Nine and Voyager) is described by DKM; the resolution is also documented. Also available are the original pitch, and the final pitch (including some comments by DKM).

    Mailing List Archives

  • The first archive of the mailing list.
  • The second archive of the mailing list. (N.B.: both mailing list archive files are gzipped.)

    DKM's Pictures

  • ANARCHY.GIF; this is a design I was noodling around with for the cover of "Lord November: The Man-Spacething War." -DKM
  • LOGO1.GIF; this is a very simple little image; it's the triangular badge worn by official representatives of the House of November, and one of the badges worn by members of the November Guard. (I.e., there's a service badge, and a separate military service badge.) The text in the lower left is "uva uvam vivendo varia fit." It's Latin, and it's from "Lonesome Dove," by Larry McMurtry. I urge you to read this book, if you haven't. The logo was (theoretically, at least) designed by Daniel November, later in life; and that text appears in the lower left of the logo even on the military uniforms. The yellow/gold sphere in the middle of the triangle represents Lucifer, btw; November's sun. (Not November's primary; November is a moon of a super-Jovian planet, Prometheus Rex -- the firebringer because the tides from P.Rex causes November's terrible earthquakes.) -DKM
  • UNIFY.GIF is the screen mentioned in The Long Run -- it's the screen people get when they call Mohammed Vance and get put on hold. -DKM
  • GRWHEEL.GIF; this is the design that appears in the back of "Last Dancer," though here it's in color and as I designed it, not as Bantam chose to lay it out subsequently -- i.e., the map in the back of tLD, though very close to what I designed, what actually laid out by Bantam's art department. -DKM
  • NOVEMBER.GIF; a map of the planet November. -DKM