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Jason Sanford

Jason Sanford

Birth place: near Wetumpka, Alabama, USA

60 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
June 2007 19 Essay Dipping Their Toes in the Genre Pool: The U. S. Literary Establishment's Need-Hate Relationship with Speculative Fiction The New York Review of Science Fiction, June 2007
July 2007 Short Fiction Rumspringa Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, #5, July 2007
August 2007 3 Short Fiction The Perverse Attraction of Heavenly Bodies Sounds of the Night, August 2007
August 2008 20 Short Fiction The Ships Like Clouds, Risen by Their Rain Interzone, August 2008
October 2008 18 Essay Singing the Songs of Arthur C. Clarke's Distant Earth The New York Review of Science Fiction, October 2008
December 2008 12 Short Fiction When Thorns are the Tips of Trees Interzone, December 2008
December 2008 32 Short Fiction Where Away You Fall Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2008
March 2009 Short Fiction Freelanga The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, Episode 28
September 2009 Short Fiction Book Scouts of the Galactic Rim The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, Episode 44
September 2009 4 Short Fiction Sublimation Angels Interzone, September-October 2009
November 2009 24 Short Fiction Here We Are, Falling Through Shadows Interzone, November-December 2009
January 2010 4 Short Fiction Into the Depths of Illuminated Seas Interzone, January-February 2010
March 2010 Essay A Change StarShipSofa, No 123
March 2010 Short Fiction Maps of the Bible The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, Episode 68
May 2010 28 Short Fiction Plague Birds Interzone, May-June 2010
August 2010 Interview Interview: Jason Sanford StarShipSofa, No 151
October 2010 Serial Sublimation Angels (Part 1 of 3) StarShipSofa, No 158
October 2010 Serial Sublimation Angels (Part 2 of 3) StarShipSofa, No 159
October 2010 Serial Sublimation Angels (Part 3 of 3) StarShipSofa, No 160
November 2010 44 Interview Confronting the Unfamiliar Interzone, November-December 2010
November 2010 28 Short Fiction Memoria Interzone, November-December 2010
November 2010 36 Short Fiction Millisent Ka Plays in Realtime Interzone, November-December 2010
November 2010 18 Short Fiction Peacemaker, Peacemaker, Little Bo Peep Interzone, November-December 2010
December 2010 Short Fiction The Never Never Wizard of Apalachicola Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, #20, December 2010
February 2011 Interview 2011 storySouth Million Writers Award StarShipSofa, No 177
April 2011 1 Short Fiction The Blue Room Daily Science Fiction, April 2011
May 2011 24 Short Fiction Her Scientifiction, Far Future, Medieval Fantasy Interzone, May-June 2011
May 2011 Interview Interview: Jason Sanford StarShipSofa, No 188
September 2011 51 Review Never Never Stories Interzone, September-October 2011
September 2011 10 Short Fiction The Ever-Dreaming Verdict of Plagues Interzone, September-October 2011
October 2011 52 Review Never Never Stories Locus, #609 October 2011
January 2012 23 Essay Read This (NYRSF, January 2012) The New York Review of Science Fiction, January 2012
January 2012 23 Review Tesseracts Twelve The New York Review of Science Fiction, January 2012
February 2012 Essay An Essay on Archeology and Fantasy StarShipSofa, No 223
February 2012 Serial The Ever-Dreaming Verdict of Plagues (Part 1 of 2) The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, Episode 125
March 2012 Serial The Ever-Dreaming Verdict of Plagues (Part 2 of 2) The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, Episode 126
August 2012 26 Short Fiction Heaven's Touch Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2012
November 2012 48 Short Fiction Mirrorblink Interzone, November-December 2012
March 2013 54 Short Fiction Monday's Monk Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2013
November 2013 14 Short Fiction Paprika Interzone, November-December 2013
October 2014 134 Short Fiction What is Sand but Earth Purified? Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2014
November 2014 55 Essay Eugie Foster Locus, #646 November 2014
September 2015 42 Short Fiction Duller's Peace Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2015
March 2016 |3 Short Fiction Blood Grains Speak Through Memories Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #195
March 2016 |6 Short Fiction Death Flowers of Never-Forgotten Love Apex Magazine, March 2016
April 2016 Short Fiction May Our Voices Sing Like Blood from Open Wounds Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, #50, April 2016
August 2016 28 Short Fiction Toppers Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2016
October 2017 Short Fiction We Eat the Hearts That Come for You The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, Episode 196
November 2017 128 Short Fiction Nine Lattices of Sargasso Asimov's Science Fiction, November-December 2017
November 2017 131 Essay Untitled Asimov's Appreciation (Nine Lattices of Sargasso) Asimov's Science Fiction, November-December 2017
March 2018 Short Fiction The Emotionless, in Love Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #246
March 2020 14 Short Fiction A Summary of Our Neighborhood's Salvation After the Storm Asimov's Science Fiction, March-April 2020
March 2020 Short Fiction Where the World Ends Without Us Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #299
September 2020 94 Short Fiction The Eight-Thousanders Asimov's Science Fiction, September-October 2020
October 2020 |1 Short Fiction Whistle Posts of Forgotten Railroads Fireside Quarterly, Fall 2020
September 2021 46 Short Fiction The Dust of Giant Radioactive Lizards Asimov's Science Fiction, September-October 2021
October 2021 Interview An Interview with Jason Sanford The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, Episode 224
February 2022 Short Fiction Blood Grains Scream in Memories Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #349
November 2022 |10 Essay How Can You Be Apex Magazine, November 2022
July 2025 |13 Short Fiction We Who Hunt Alexanders (excerpt) Apex Magazine, July 2025

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2008 British Science Fiction Award Best Short Fiction The Ships Like Clouds, Risen by Their Rain Nominee
2008 British Science Fiction Award Best Short Fiction When Thorns are the Tips of Trees Nominee
2010 Hugo Award Best Novella Sublimation Angels Nominee
2010 Nebula Award Novella Sublimation Angels Nominee
2015 Asimov's Readers' Poll Best Short Story What is Sand but Earth Purified? Finalist
2017 Hugo Award Best Novelette Blood Grains Speak Through Memories Nominee
2017 Nebula Award Novelette Blood Grains Speak Through Memories Nominee
2021 Hugo Award Best Short Story The Eight-Thousanders Nominee
2021 Nebula Award Short Story The Eight-Thousanders Nominee
2022 Nebula Award Novel Plague Birds Nominee
2022 Philip K. Dick Award Philip K. Dick Award Plague Birds Nominee

Jason Sanford is a science fiction writer living in Columbus, Ohio with his family. His fiction has appeared in numerous magazines such as Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog: Science Fiction and Fact, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, InterGalactic Medicine Show, and Tales of the Unanticipated. He also founded the online literary journal storySouth.
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