Daniel Keys Moran
American writer
Daniel Keys Moran (born November 30, 1962), also known by his initials DKM, is an American computer programmer and science fiction writer.
Biography
Moran was born in Los Angeles to Richard Joseph Moran and Marilynn Joyce Moran. He has three sisters, Kari Lynn Moran, Jodi Anne Moran and Kathleen Moran.
A native of Southern California, he formerly lived (with his former wife Holly Thomas Moran) in North Hollywood. DKM, his third wife Amy Stout-Moran, and their sons Richard Moran and Connor Moran, along with Amy's two daughters and one son later lived in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.
In early 2005 Keys Moran lost vision in one eye due to wet macular degeneration.
Bibliography
Moran's first story, "All the Time in the World", appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction in May 1982. This was incorporated into his first novel, The Armageddon Blues: A Tale of the Great Wheel of Existence, which was also the first novel of his projected series "Tales of the Great Wheel of Existence". A sub-series, "Tales of the Continuing Time", has been projected to include 32 volumes in its entirety, of which three novels were published in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and a fourth novel, The A.I. War, Book One: The Big Boost, in 2011.
The Great Wheel of Existence
The multi-verse in which most of DKM's work is set.
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