Stephen Euin Cobb
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Stephen Euin Cobb (born February 3, 1955) is a U.S. science fiction author and the host of The Future And You . He is also a futurist and transhumanist.
As the host of The Future And You, a 79 minute long talk-show style podcast, he interviews authors, scientists, celebrities and "pioneers of the future" as to what they believe both the near future and distant future will be like.
Bones Burnt Black (2004) is his most widely read novel. It is an action/adventure, murder/mystery involving a series of murders aboard a large passenger spacecraft which has been catastrophically sabotaged by the killer. His first published novel was Plague at Redhook (1999), which dealt with nanotechnology so highly advanced that it resembled magic and resulted in human immortality. He also contributed a short story called The Errand Boy to the anthology Writers for Relief. (All the profits of this anthology are being donated to the victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.)
As an author, he specializes in hard science fiction (fiction with a high degree of scientific accuracy). All of his novels occur within the same fictional universe which has been nicknamed "Naked Space" in honor of a fictional cosmological theory put forth by a character in one of his novels. (His short story The Errand Boy is a timetravel story, and so does not seem to fit within his Naked Space universe.)
He has invented a number of games, the most famous being Death Stacks, for which there is an annual tournament in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is also the inventor of the Ignorance Index, an empirical rating system for talk shows on radio and television.
His hobbies include: astronomy (he has a 10.1 inch Newtonian telescope on a Dobsonian mount), handwriting analysis, and drawing in pencil, charcoal and pastels. He also collects fossils, artwork and autographed books.
Stephen Euin Cobb was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina; spent his childhood in Forest Park, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago); and now lives in South Carolina.
External links
- [Stephen Euin Cobb official website] Includes photos, a biography and opening chapters for two of his novels. (Warning: Dial-up users may find it slow to load because it has many photos of the SF&F conventions he has attended.)
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