Bio

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.

Published/Upcoming

Jan '06 - “Salt of Judas”, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show

Oct '05 - “Taint of Treason”, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show

Sep '05 - “Resonance”, Analog Science Fiction & Fact

Aug '05 - “Betrayer of Trees”, Writers of the Future

Sep '04 - “The Man Who Moved the Moon” in All the Rage This Year: The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology 3

Aug '04 - “In Memory”, Writers of the Future 20