I've seen various people on both side claiming that because the vote total in the 2024 presidential race is substantially lower than the total in 2020, there must be something wrong. People on the right assume it's proof of massive voter fraud by the Democrats in 2020. People on the left assume it's proof of some sort of skullduggery (exactly... read more »
Favorite tracks: Masquerade, Tell Me Why, The Metro, Pleasure Victim I think my first exposure to Berlin's music was in 1984, hearing "No More Words" either on the radio or at a church youth dance. I later heard "Now It's My Turn" in one of those same ways. In 1985, when I started to listen to the local New Wave... read more »
As an experiment earlier this year, I serialized my epic fantasy novel Heir of the Line on Kindle Vella. Now, the complete novel is available for purchase from Amazon: Hardback: $30.00 Paperback: $20.00 Kindle: $9.99 (free if you subscribe to Kindle Unlimited) If you're planning to go to the Dragonsteel 2022 convention in Salt Lake City on November 14-15, you... read more »
Six years and one day ago, I posted about why I was voting for Evan McMullin for President. Today, I'm going to explain why I'm voting for him for Senator. In 2016, I happily cast my vote in the Senate race for Mike Lee. He and I shared a lot of political positions. Not only that, Senator Lee had worked... read more »
You know how in boxing, if you beat the champion, you become the new champion? Several years ago, I thought about how interesting it would be if college football had a championship like that: if you beat the champion, you become the champion. I even tried to research historical scores of college football games to figure out who might be... read more »
My story "Attitude Adjustment," first published in Analog in 2009, has been reprinted in the anthology Rockets and Robots from Word Balloon Books, publishers of kid-friendly SF and Fantasy books.
My story "Worse Than One" appears in the July/August 2022 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. It's a Probability Zero flash piece. Here's how it starts: "It all started a few months back when I saw an ad looking for people to test a new drug for regenerating lost body parts. I lost a finger in an accident awhile... read more »
Welcome to my brand new website design. One of the advantages of working for DentalQore (formerly Business Promotion), the company I've worked at for over thirteen years, is that they have great website designers on staff. And they were kind enough to re-design my author website.
I've decided to run for a Director-at-Large position on the Board of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The following is the platform statement I posted on the SFWA forum to announce my candidacy: I'm Eric James Stone, and I'm running for Director-at-Large. This is not the first time I've thrown my hat into the ring for SFWA... read more »
I read -- OK, listened to -- 45 books in 2018, so a little less than one a week. I started the first one in 2017 and finished the last one in 2019. I've omitted any books I started and decided not to finish, so I felt all of these books were worth finishing. I have also omitted unpublished books... read more »
