Sean A. Moore

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Sean A. Moore (1965-1998) of Boulder, Colorado, was an American fantasy and science fiction writer, and a computer programmer and systems operations specialist employed as a controller for Aspen Systems, Inc. of Wheat Ridge. He also played and wrote computer games, designed board games, and enjoyed fencing.

Moore was the author of several books for Tor Books, including the novelization of Kull the Conqueror (1997) and three novels based on Robert E. Howard's famous character Conan: Conan the Hunter (1994), Conan and the Shaman's Curse (1996), and Conan and the Grim Grey God (1996). He was also an uncredited contributor to the Kull screenplay and had a story in the Partridge/Greenberg anthology It Came from the Drive-in. In the latter part of the 1990s Moore took up writing full-time, and was working on a major SF/horror novel titled Diggers for Tor.

He was killed in an automobile crash on February 23, 1998 at the age of thirty-three. He was survived by his wife Raven. Funeral services were held February 28, 1998 at Crown Hill in Denver, Colorado. A well-liked member of the Colorado pro and fan communities, Moore is remembered by both as a personable and quick-witted young writer whose abbreviated career only hints at the full range of his talents and his potential achievements.