Catherine Lucille Moore wrote under the pseudonym "C. L. Moore" for most of the life of her literary career, which made leaps and bounds for female writing within the speculative fiction industry. Her work appeared in such pulp science fiction magazines as Weird Tales and Amazing Stories. With her highly versatile array of stories, novels, scripts and teleplays, she carved herself a place in both the history of the speculative fiction industry and in feminist science fiction.

The purpose of this site is to bring to light the accomplishments, life and various works of the popular science fiction writer C. L. Moore, who lived from 1911-1987. Subjects addressed are her life story and crticisms of her works along with her contributions to speculative fiction and feminist science fiction.

This webpage was made by J.C. Pankratz, a student at DePauw University as a final project for HONR101C - Speculative Visions: Science Fiction with Dr. Arthur Evans. You can email her with questions and concerns at joanpankratz_2012@depauw.edu. This page was last updated on Dec. 3, 2008.

"I was far too unsure of myself to have hammered on the door of every publisher in New York if my first opus had been so unkindly treated. I'd simply have given it up and turned to some other form of activity, and this book would not be in your hands now. (I'm glad it is, too.)" -- C. L. Moore, The Best of C. L. Moore