Well I (as a widely-read 81 year old bookworm lol) have never heard of him

Well now's your chance to familiarize yourself with the pop culture of 20 years ago. There's this other great book about UK authoritarianism, it's called 1984 by this little known author George Orwell.

Okay, just to answer the damned question because apparently no one else felt like doing the decent thing and just saying it: the "Moore" mentioned is Alan Moore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore

I did initially wonder if the reference was to Thomas Moore!

Yes lmao. You think those are literary classics in the same vein as Shakespeare or something?

No, but the films made a billion dollars in box office revenues. I know of Alan Moore's V for Vandetta because of the blockbuster movie.

Ive seen one of those movies and didnt know any of them were from books.

You realize capeshit is for children and being overly inured to the silver screen is for basement dwellers, right? Right...?

You're not cool because you don't watch popular things