Moles was born in California and raised in a number of cities, including San Diego, Athens, Tehran, and Tokyo.[3] He attended the American School in Japan before receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees from the University of California, Santa Cruz and University of Oxford.
In 2006, after Harlan Ellison groped award-winning novelist Connie Willis' breast while on stage at the AnaheimWorldconHugo Awards ceremony,[4] Moles condemned fellow SF authors who defended Ellison's actions.[5] However, the quotes Moles used in his blog post were from a private Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America newsgroup, and members attempted to expel Moles from the organization for "breaking the SFWA code of silence." Moles credits then SFWA president Robin Wayne Bailey for reducing his expulsion to censure, "a new process that had to be invented for the occasion."[5]
"Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" - Eclipse Two: New Science Fiction and Fantasy (2010), edited by Jonathan Strahan.
"A Soldier of the City" - Engineering Infinity (December 2010), edited by Jonathan Strahan.[6][7][8] Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois, and War & Space: Recent Combat, edited by Rich Horton and Sean Wallace.
"Chitai Heiki Koronbin" - The Future Is Japanese (2012), edited by Nick Mamatas and Masumi Washington.
