Editing Ward Moore (section)

==Writer== <!--2015-02-28, none of this is lead material-->
Moore began publishing with the [[novel]] ''Breathe the Air Again'' (1942), about the onset of the [[Great Depression]].  The story is told from multiple viewpoints, and Ward Moore himself appears briefly as a character in the novel.

His most famous work is the [[alternate history (fiction)|alternate history]] novel ''[[Bring the Jubilee]]'' (1953). This novel, narrated by Hodge Backmaker, tells of a world in which [[Confederate States of America|the South]] won the [[American Civil War]], leaving [[Union (American Civil War)|the North]] in ruins.

Moore's other novels include ''Cloud by Day'', in which a brush fire threatens the fictional town of Lugar Pass, California, which is near Fallbrook and according to a fictionalized map in the only edition (William Heinemann Ltd, 1956) is 18 miles east of Oceanside in San Diego County; 
''Greener Than You Think'', a novel about unstoppable [[Bermuda grass]]; 
''Joyleg'' (co-authored with [[Avram Davidson]]), which assumes the survival of the [[State of Franklin]]; and
''Caduceus Wild'' (co-authored with [[Robert Bradford (author)|Robert Bradford]]), about a medarchy, a nation governed by physicians.

Moore is also known for the two [[short story|short stories]] (since collected) "Lot" (1953) and "Lot's Daughter" (1954), which are [[postapocalyptic]] tales with parallels to the [[Bible]]. His short story "Adjustment", in which an ordinary man adjusts to a never-never land in which his wishes are fulfilled and makes the environment adjust to him as well, has been reprinted several times.
Another postapocalyptic story is Moore's 1951 story ''Flying Dutchman'', which uses the myth of the [[Flying Dutchman]] - a legendary ship supposed to be doomed to forever wander the oceans and never reach port - as a metaphor for an automated bomber which continues to fly over an Earth where humanity long since totally destroyed itself and all life in a nuclear war.<ref>{{cite book|author=David Seed|title=American Science Fiction and the Cold War: Literature and Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DTHfAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT126|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-95382-9|page=126}}</ref>