I’ve found an interesting new author: Eric James Stone.

I was digging around in the Mormon Dialogue and Discussion Board in inestimable boredom one night this week when I happened upon mention of a Nebula-winning Mormon-themed science-fiction novellette entitled “That Leviathan Whom Thou Hast Made”.  I thought to myself that that was certainly news, so I hopped right over and had a look at the story.  Wow!  Is all I can say!  Well, obviously I have more to say, or else this post would end right here, but Wow! certainly applies.

If you are a science-fiction nut, like me, then you gotta read this.  It won’t take long (it’s just a novelette), and it is very interesting indeed.

Eric James Stone has made an important contribution to the varied menagerie of fictional extraterrestrial life-forms (is there any other kind?) and come up with a rather unique interstellar transportation system.  If he’s planning a novel using these two plot devices, sign me up, because I want to see what he does with them!

Check out his novelette here: “That Leviathan Whom Thou Hast Made”

Now I got something more to read while waiting for Jerry Pournelle to publish something new!