Career
His primary significance as a writer is for his three pastiche novels featuring Robert East. Howard"s sword and sorcery hero Conan and for his work on the screenplay of the movie Kull the Conqueror, and novelization of the same film. Moore was a resident of Boulder, Colorado, where he worked in the field of computer programming in a number of different capacities, including programmer, systems operations specialist, and writer of computer games. He was employed as a programmer by Aspen Systems, Incorporated.
He was also a designer of board games.
His hobbies included playing computer games and fencing. Moore died in a car crash in Boulder.
Services were held five days after his death in Denver. Moore was active as both a fan and a professional writer in the community of Colorado fantasy and science fiction enthusiasts.
Initially writing part-time, he had become a full-time writer at the time of his death, primarily for Tor Books.
His last work was an unfinished science fiction horror novel, provisionally titled Diggers. Moore has been both praised for his "strengths.. in crafting a clever, dense plot with immense, epic scope, and populating it with an imaginative flood of action and monsters," and criticized for "overwrit to an incredible degree" and "choppy.. start-and-stop structure.".
