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Creation
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Published September 25, 2003
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Jeffrey Ford
241 books511 followersJeffrey Ford is an American writer in the Fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including Fantasy, Science Fiction and Mystery. His work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humor, literary allusion, and a fascination with tales told within tales. He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he studied with the novelist John Gardner.
He lives in southern New Jersey and teaches writing and literature at Brookdale Community College in Monmouth County. He has also taught at the summer Clarion Workshop for science fiction and fantasy writers in Michigan. He has contributed stories, essays and interviews to various magazines and e-magazines including MSS, Puerto Del Sol, Northwest Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Argosy, Event Horizon, Infinity Plus, Black Gate and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
He published his first story, "The Casket", in Gardner's literary magazine MSS in 1981 and his first full-length novel, Vanitas, in 1988.
He lives in southern New Jersey and teaches writing and literature at Brookdale Community College in Monmouth County. He has also taught at the summer Clarion Workshop for science fiction and fantasy writers in Michigan. He has contributed stories, essays and interviews to various magazines and e-magazines including MSS, Puerto Del Sol, Northwest Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Argosy, Event Horizon, Infinity Plus, Black Gate and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
He published his first story, "The Casket", in Gardner's literary magazine MSS in 1981 and his first full-length novel, Vanitas, in 1988.
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February 8, 2026
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“Creation” won the World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction in 2003.
A boy has the run of the woods behind his house and an active imagination. After learning in Sunday School of how Adam was created, he is inspired to capture his father’s breath and see if it will bring life to a man he creates of natural material.
This coming of age story falls into the realm of plausible deniability. It does a good job of getting us into the mind of the boy, with the wonder and fear and confusion of his age.
“Creation” won the World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction in 2003.
A boy has the run of the woods behind his house and an active imagination. After learning in Sunday School of how Adam was created, he is inspired to capture his father’s breath and see if it will bring life to a man he creates of natural material.
This coming of age story falls into the realm of plausible deniability. It does a good job of getting us into the mind of the boy, with the wonder and fear and confusion of his age.
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