One of Eric James Stone's first memories is of seeing
an Apollo moon-shot launch on television that might explain his life-long
fascination with astronomy and space travel. His father's set of old science
fiction ensured that Eric grew up on a full diet of Asimov, Heinlein and
Clarke.
While getting his degree in political science at Brigham
Young University, Eric took some innovative writing classes. He wrote
several short stories, and even submitted one for publication, but it
was discarded. Having an unsurprisingly lazy disposition, he gave up on
creative writing for over ten years.
Those years were not completely unproductive: Eric graduated
from Baylor Law School, worked on a Congressional campaign in New York,
and then took a job in Washington, D.C., with one of those special interest
groups politicians are always complaining that other politicians are being
influenced by.
Then he leaves the political scene to work as a web developer
for a dot-com company in Utah, in order to be a part of the Great Internet
Boom. Shortly thereafter – and he insists the events are not causally
interconnected – the Great Internet Bust began. He managed to stay
his job, and still works there today.
In 2002 he started writing fiction again, and in 2003
he attended Orson Scott Card's Literary Boot Camp.
A winner in the 2004 Writers of the Future competition,
Eric has had stories published by Analog and Phobos Books.
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