Eric James Stone

In honor of International Pixel-Stained Techno-Peasant Day, I am posting one of my rarest published stories: “The Six Billion Dollar Colon.”  I wrote this story especially for Jay Lake: Intelligently Redesigned, a “Get Well” anthology put together by Jeff Richárd last year after Jay was diagnosed with colon cancer.  Since the anthology was published in a very limited edition, only a few people have had a chance to read it before now.  (I read it aloud at Dragon*Con last year, where it got a favorable reception.)

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For the second year in a row, I managed to make the Million Writers Award list of notable stories published online.  “The Robot Sorcerer” is one of four stories from InterGalactic Medicine Show to appear on the list.

I was surprised to find my story on the list, as I had not seen it on the lists of reader-nominated or editor-nominated stories.  However, the preliminary judges are not restricted to selecting from the nominated stories, so one of them must have liked “The Robot Sorcerer.”

Congrats also to my friends who made the list: Ken Scholes, Mary Robinette Kowal, Tobias Buckell, Eugie Foster, Jay Lake, Cat Rambo, Jim Hines, Christie Skipper Ritchotte, Aliette de Bodard, and John Brown.