Sanford, Jason
Entry updated 31 August 2026. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(? - ) US editor, author and highly regarded blog commentator on the sf scene, who began to publish fiction of genre interest with "Rumpelstiltskin: Private Eye" in Newfangled Fairy Tales: Book 2 (anth 1998) edited by Bruce Lansky; much of his shorter output is fantasy, though at least one volume, Heaven's Touch and Other Science Fiction Stories (coll 2019), is sf. The Plagues sequence beginning with Plague Birds (short version May-June 2010 Interzone; 2021) is set in a desolate distant Near Future whose human population, universally modified through Genetic Engineering, is monitored by the eponymous human/AI hybrids, who govern the world savagely against terrors which at points seem supernatural. The strangeness of this world is compellingly presented. Also set in the same world is the standalone novella "The Ever-Dreaming Verdict of Plagues" (September-October 2011 Interzone).
For his sf reportage and commentary, Sanford received a 2026 Hugo as best fan writer. [JC]
Jason Sanford
born near Wetumpka, Alabama
works
series
Plague
- Plague Birds (Lexington, Kentucky: Apex Book Company, 2021) [short version May-June 2010 Interzone: Plague: pb/Marcela Bolivar]
individual titles
- We Who Hunt Alexanders (Lexington, Kentucky: Apex Book Company, 2025) [pb/]
collections and stories
- Never Never Stories (place not known: Spotlight Publishing, 2011) [coll: pb/Vincent Chong]
- Heaven's Touch and Other Science Fiction Stories (place not known: Jason Sanford, 2019) [coll: pb/Paul Drummond]
works as editor
- Million Writers Award: The Best Online Science Fiction and Fantasy (place not known: Spotlight Publishing, 2012) [anth: pb/]
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