Eric James Stone

{{short description|American novelist}}

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| name = Eric James Stone

| image = Eric James Stone at CONduit 2007.png

| imagesize = 250px

| caption = Stone at CONduit 17 in 2007.

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| birth_date ={{Birth year and age|1967}}

| birth_place = United States

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| occupation = Author, editor

| genre = Science fiction, fantasy, horror

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| notableworks= "That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made"

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| awards = Nebula Award for Best Novelette (2010)

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| website = {{URL|ericjamesstone.com/}}

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Eric James Stone (born 1967) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror author. He won the 2004 Writers of the Future contest,{{Cite web|url=https://www.writersofthefuture.com/community/|title=Forum – Writers & Illustrators of the Future}} 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{{cite web|url=http://sfscope.com/2011/05/2010-nebula-award-winners-anno.html |title=2010 Nebula Award Winners Announced |first=Ian Randal |last=Strock |publisher=SFScope.com |date=May 21, 2011 |archivedate=May 15, 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515005510/http://sfscope.com/2011/05/2010-nebula-award-winners-anno.html |url-status=dead }} and was a finalist for the Hugo Award.{{Cite web|url=https://gizmodo.com/io9|title=io9|website=Gizmodo}}

He became the assistant editor for Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show in 2009,{{Cite web|url=https://sixquestionsfor.blogspot.com/2011/03/six-questions-for-eric-james-stone.html|title=Six Questions For . . .: Six Questions for Eric James Stone, Assistant Editor, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show|first=Jim|last=Harrington|date=March 4, 2011}} and served as web-host for Tangent Online. He received a degree in political science at Brigham Young University{{Cite web|url=https://www.ericjamesstone.com/blog/biography/|title=Biography | Eric James Stone|date=13 October 2005 }} and went on to graduate from Baylor Law School. Stone lives in Eagle Mountain, Utah.