Eric James Stone

Eric James Stone
Eric James Stone
	Stone at CONduit 17 in 2007.
Born	1967 (age 57–58); United States
Occupation	Author, editor
Genre	Science fiction, fantasy, horror
Notable works	"That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made"
Notable awards	Nebula Award for Best Novelette (2010)
Website
	ericjamesstone.com

Last updated July 31, 2025

Eric James Stone (born 1967) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror author. He won the 2004 Writers of the Future contest,^[1] and has published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact , InterGalactic Medicine Show , and Jim Baen's Universe . His 2010 novelette, "That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made," won the Nebula Award for Best Novelette ^[2] and was a finalist for the Hugo Award.^[3]

He became the assistant editor for Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show in 2009,^[4] and served as web-host for Tangent Online. He received a degree in political science at Brigham Young University^[5] and went on to graduate from Baylor Law School. Stone lives in Eagle Mountain, Utah.^[6]

Personal life

On November 21, 2012, Stone announced his engagement to Darci Rhoades.^[7]

Bibliography

Novels

Unforgettable (2011, self-published, picked up by Baen Books, ISBN 978-1-4767-8108-2, January 2016)^[8]

Collections

Rejiggering the Thingamajig and Other Stories (Paper Golem, ISBN 978-0-9795349-9-7, August 2011)

Short fiction

Date	Title	Publication	Publisher	ISBN
August 2004	"In Memory"	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume XX	Galaxy Press	ISBN 1-59212-177-2
September 2004	"The Man Who Moved the Moon"	All the Rage This Year: The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology 3	Phobos Books	ISBN 0-9720026-5-0
August 2005	"Betrayer of Trees"	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume XXI	Galaxy Press	ISBN 1-59212-217-5
September 2005	"Resonance"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
October 2005	"Taint of Treason"	Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show
March 2006	"Salt of Judas"	Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show
May 2006	"Loophole"	Warp & Weave
December 2006	"Upgrade"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
February 2007	"Tabloid Reporter to the Stars"	Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show
February 2008	"Premature Emergence"	Jim Baen's Universe
April 2008	"Accounting for Dragons"	Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show
May 2008	"The Ashes of His Fathers"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
June 2008	"The Six Billion Dollar Colon"	Jay Lake: Intelligently Redesigned	Digital Alchemy Press
October 2008	"P.R. Problems"	Blood Lite	Pocket Books	ISBN 978-1-4165-6783-7
December 2008	"The Robot Sorcerer"	Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show
April 2009	"The Final Element"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
July 2009	"Like Diamond Tears From Emerald Eyes"	Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show
September 2009	"Attitude Adjustment"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
January 2010	"Rejiggering the Thingamajig"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
June 2010	"An Early Ford Mustang"	Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show
September 2010	"American Banshee"	Blood Lite 2: Overbite	Gallery Books	ISBN 978-1-4391-8765-4
September 2010	"Bird-Dropping and Sunday"	The Immersion Book of Science Fiction	Immersion Press	ISBN 978-0-9563924-1-1
September 2010	"That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
October 28, 2010	"The Greatest Science Fiction Story Ever Written"	Nature
December 14, 2010	"Buy You a Mockingbird"	Daily Science Fiction
January 6, 2011	"Waiting for Raymond"	Daily Science Fiction
March 24, 2011	"Girl Who Asks Too Much"	Daily Science Fiction
May 19, 2011	"They Do It with Robots"	Daily Science Fiction
June 28, 2011	"Freefall"	Daily Science Fiction
June 2011	"Into the West "	Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show
August 2011	"The Day the Music Died "	Rejiggering the Thingamajig and Other Stories	Paper Golem	ISBN 978-0-9795349-9-7
November 8, 2011	"A Great Destiny"	Daily Science Fiction
November 2011	"A Lincoln in Time"	Heir Apparent: Digital Science Fiction Anthology 4	Digital Science Fiction
February 9, 2012	"The Steel Throne"	Daily Science Fiction
May 2012	"Lobstersaurus"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
June 20, 2012	"Dark Roads for the Eternal Ruler"	Daily Science Fiction
June 2012	"Nine-Tenths of the Law"	Blood Lite III: Aftertaste	Pocket Books	ISBN 978-1-4516-3624-6
September 2012	"Write What You Want"	Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show
June 2013	"Cui Bono"	The Urban Green Man	Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing	ISBN 978-1-77053-038-6
July 26, 2013	"By the Hands of Juan Perón"	Daily Science Fiction
August 28, 2013	"Love Is Orange, Love Is Red"	Daily Science Fiction
September 2013	"A Crash Course in Fate"	What Fates Impose	Alliteration Ink	ISBN 978-1-939840-05-9
November 2013	"The Humans in the Walls"	Space Eldritch II: The Haunted Stars	Cold Fusion Media	ISBN 978-0-615-91859-4
July 2014	"A Sufficiently Advanced Christmas"	A Fantastic Holiday Season: The Gift of Stories	WordFire Press	ISBN 978-1-61475-202-8
October 13, 2014	"Motivational Story"	Daily Science Fiction
March 2015	"An Immense Darkness"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
September 2015	"Unforgettable "	Heroic: Tales of the Extraordinary	Dan Farr Productions	ISBN 978-1-5173-2827-6
December 2016	"Crowdfinding"	Analog Science Fiction and Fact
December 2016	"A Special Extra Christmas"	Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show

Awards

Year	Organization	Award title, Category	Work	Result	Refs
2010	Readers of Analog Science Fiction and Fact	AnLab Awards, Best Short Story	"Rejiggering the Thingamajig"	Nominated	^[9]
2011	World Science Fiction Convention	Hugo Award, Best Novelette	"That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made"	Nominated	^[9]
2011	SFWA	Nebula Award, Novelette	"That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made"	Won	^[9]

References

↑ "Forum – Writers & Illustrators of the Future".
↑ Strock, Ian Randal (May 21, 2011). "2010 Nebula Award Winners Announced". SFScope.com. Archived from the original on May 15, 2012.
↑ "io9". Gizmodo.
↑ Harrington, Jim (March 4, 2011). "Six Questions For . . .: Six Questions for Eric James Stone, Assistant Editor, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show".
↑ "Biography | Eric James Stone". 13 October 2005.
↑ "The SF Site: An Interview with Eric James Stone". www.sfsite.com. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
↑ Twitter
↑ Briefly reviewed by Don Sakers in the April 2016 issue of Analog , pp.105–108.
1 2 3 "Award Bibliography: Eric James Stone". Internet Speculative Fiction Database . Retrieved August 21, 2016.

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[1] "Forum – Writers & Illustrators of the Future".

[2010nebula-2] Strock, Ian Randal (May 21, 2011). "2010 Nebula Award Winners Announced". SFScope.com. Archived from the original on May 15, 2012.

[3] "io9". Gizmodo.

[4] Harrington, Jim (March 4, 2011). "Six Questions For . . .: Six Questions for Eric James Stone, Assistant Editor, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show".

[5] "Biography | Eric James Stone". 13 October 2005.

[6] "The SF Site: An Interview with Eric James Stone". www.sfsite.com. Retrieved 2025-07-30.

[7] Twitter

[8] Briefly reviewed by Don Sakers in the April 2016 issue of Analog , pp.105–108.

[isfdb_award_list-9] 1 2 3 "Award Bibliography: Eric James Stone". Internet Speculative Fiction Database . Retrieved August 21, 2016.

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v t e Nebula Award for Best Novelette
1966–1980	"The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" by Roger Zelazny (1966) "Call Him Lord" by Gordon R. Dickson (1967) "Gonna Roll the Bones" by Fritz Leiber (1968) "Mother to the World" by Richard Wilson (1969) "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" by Samuel R. Delany (1970) "Slow Sculpture" by Theodore Sturgeon (1971) "The Queen of Air and Darkness" by Poul Anderson (1972) "Goat Song" by Poul Anderson (1973) "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" by Vonda N. McIntyre (1974) "If the Stars Are Gods", by Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford (1975) "San Diego Lightfoot Sue" by Tom Reamy (1976) "The Bicentennial Man" by Isaac Asimov (1977) "The Screwfly Solution" by Raccoona Sheldon (1978) "A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye" by Charles L. Grant (1979) "Sandkings" by George R. R. Martin (1980)
1981–2000	"The Ugly Chickens" by Howard Waldrop (1981) "The Quickening" by Michael Bishop (1982) "Fire Watch" by Connie Willis (1983) "Blood Music" by Greg Bear (1984) "Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler (1985) "Portraits of His Children" by George R. R. Martin (1986) "The Girl who Fell into the Sky" by Kate Wilhelm (1987) "Rachel in Love" by Pat Murphy (1988) "Schrödinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger (1989) "At the Rialto" by Connie Willis (1990) "Tower of Babylon" by Ted Chiang (1991) "Guide Dog" by Michael Conner (1992) "Danny Goes to Mars" by Pamela Sargent (1993) "Georgia on My Mind" by Charles Sheffield (1994) "The Martian Child" by David Gerrold (1995) "Solitude" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1996) "Lifeboat on a Burning Sea" by Bruce Holland Rogers (1997) "The Flowers of Adult Prison" by Nancy Kress (1998) "Lost Girls" by Jane Yolen (1999) "'Mars is No Place for Children", by Mary Turzillo (2000)
2001–2020	"Daddy's World" by Walter Jon Williams (2001) "Louise's Ghost" by Kelly Link (2002) "Hell is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiang (2003) "The Empire of Ice Cream" by Jeffrey Ford (2004) "Basement Magic" by Ellen Klages (2005) "The Faery Handbag" by Kelly Link (2006) "Two Hearts" by Peter S. Beagle (2007) "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" by Ted Chiang (2008) "Pride and Prometheus" by John Kessel (2009) "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast" by Eugie Foster (2010) "That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made" by Eric James Stone (2011) "What We Found" by Geoff Ryman (2012) "Close Encounters" by Andy Duncan (2013) "The Waiting Stars" by Aliette de Bodard (2014) "A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i" by Alaya Dawn Johnson (2015) "Our Lady of the Open Road" by Sarah Pinsker (2016) "The Long Fall Up" by William Ledbetter (2017) "A Human Stain" by Kelly Robson (2018) "The Only Harmless Great Thing" by Brooke Bolander (2019) "Carpe Glitter" by Cat Rambo (2020)
2021–present	"Two Truths and a Lie" by Sarah Pinsker (2021) "O2 Arena" by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (2022) "If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You" by John Chu (2023) "The Year Without Sunshine" by Naomi Kritzer (2024) "Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being" by A. W. Prihandita (2025)

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