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Stephen’s Science Fiction Novels
Waking frantically to a cockroach
crawling across her face, Leather decides that beating the crap out of her
evil stepmother and running away from home wasn't a
very good plan. But she's far too stubborn to go
back now—even living in the trash-strewn basement of an abandoned church. But
soon she falls for a traveling conman who introduces her to his criminal
friends, and she becomes an accessory to the murder of forty scientists who
had just found the ruins of an alien civilization. Caught up in their quest
for priceless artifacts, she is lusted after by the most
vile of these miscreants. A man whose desires will
not be denied. Leather
& the 40 Corpsicles in the Cafe Freezer On the run from
the police for serious crimes she did not commit, and minor crimes she did,
Leather is struggling to save the life of her alien friend, but he is fading
fast. She needs to find his homeworld and get him to a hospital. But her
spacecraft has no navigation computer—because it's
stolen—so she has to guess which star is his. Meanwhile, Pug, another of
Leather's alien friends, is suffering a series of violent alien invasions and
clandestine subterfuges. Pug is in danger of losing her galactic kingdom. A
kingdom that Leather has no idea she possesses.
Dr. Mark Tolman—the
only human doctor in his shiny new and unused hospital ship—is not prepared
for this bizarre plague. Everyone reacts differently, yet each gets stuck in their emotional state. An enraged woman
never calms down, a frightened man jumps at shadows, a pregnant woman begins
perpetually laughing and starts her husband endlessly crying, and one
lust-filled woman tries to molest everyone within her reach. And it's spreading. Dr. Tolman had
better figure something out, because now he's caught
it too. Kim Kirkland wakes in a spacesuit
with nothing around her but stars and no memory of where she is or how she
got here. She must locate her forgotten ship, somehow propel herself to it,
find a way inside, and recover her lost memories. But the killer who put her
where she is now... waits for her return. Science Fiction
Novels for FREE! Yes, I'm
giving away a copy of one of my science fiction novels for FREE. This novel
has never been available anywhere else; not at any
price. Just click on the book cover and sign-up for my
newsletter. The novel tells the tale of John
Tyer, whose historic theft of an alien spacecraft in 2061 led to the
development of human hyperlight travel and so to all the other stories in my
fictional universe. It’s a first contact alien
invasion. And, yes, the title is a 100% accurate summary of the story. Give it a look. Thanks.
Stephen writes for a variety of Popular Magazines.
Contributing editor for Space
and Time Magazine for
eight years (2009 - 2016), Stephen was also a columnist and
contributing editor for Jim Baen's Universe Magazine for three years
(2006 - 2010), a contributing editor for
Robot Magazine
for one year (2009 - 2010), and has written for HumanityPlus
Magazine (H+), Grim
Couture Magazine, Port
Iris Magazine and Digit Magazine.
Stephen has interviewed over 500 people. (A partial list
of Stephen’s interviews can be found here.)
Stephen has spoken to over 200 audiences. Stephen enjoys speaking at conventions. He has lectured,
participated on discussion panels (often as the moderator because of his
interviewing skills), assisted in teaching seminars about how to write, even been the Master of Ceremonies twice. A veteran
of over 50 conventions, he has been part of the scheduled
programming at DragonCon, ConCarolinas, LibertyCon, StellarCon, SheVaCon, Atomacon, and RavenCon.
The
2006 Parsec Award for "Best News Podcast" was given to Stephen Euin
Cobb on the evening of September
2, 2006, at the first annual Parsec Award ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia.
This was for his weekly podcast, “The Future and
You.” In
his acceptance speech, Stephen thanked the three podcasters who had
encouraged him to create a podcast back in 2005 when he knew little about how
podcasting was done: Mur Lafferty, Tee Morris, and Rich Sigfrit.
Stephen also thanked his photographer and assistant, Peggy Gregory, for
helping him throughout his many promotional travels to conventions, book
signings, and TV appearances. Stephen Writes Nonfiction Books
A nonfiction
book in which I describe my Radical New Theory of Everything. “Einstein did
not replace Newton. His was a new level of understanding that overlaid the
existing model. So too, this model will not replace those of Einstein or
Newton. Instead, it will explain the mystery we all pretend does not exist.
The mystery of why Newton and Einstein are correct.” A
Brief History of Predicting the Future A quick and
lively romp to give the general reader a taste of what futurology today is
all about, and a feel for the long uphill climb it has made from its humble
beginnings in the dawn of antiquity. The book describes how predicting the
future has changed many times through the centuries: from magic to science,
and from science fiction to computation. It also explains some of what is yet
to come, such as AI, The Singularity, Transhumanism, life extension, and
other strange things that are likely to alter your life. Indistinguishable
from Magic: Predictions of Revolutionary Future Science A few of the
far future scientific and technological innovations which will transform our
civilization from what it is now into an exponentially larger, faster,
stronger and more dynamic civilization than can be contained on this planet,
or in this solar system, or within this universe. These technologies will
allow us to expand through those boundaries and find new unimagined
boundaries beyond them to break through. Its chapter
titles include — We Will Transmute the Elements; We Will Develop Many
Completely New Physics; My Father's Watch; Hidden-Life May be More Common on
Planets than Non-Hidden: And Earth May be No Exception; The Universal
Diagram; Engineering Space: Altering This Universe and Making New Ones. Stephen interviewed Brandon Sanderson
Stephen interviewed the bestselling author Brandon
Sanderson in the autumn of 2012, while Brandon was the Literary Guest of
Honor at LibertyCon. The interview
was videotaped in HD by Derek Pearson who has produced numerous music videos
and instructional documentaries but was looking for a project to move his
career into TV show production. Stephen’s other Passions: Stephen
agreed to let one of his articles be included in a college textbook entitled About
Philosophy (eleventh edition, 2012) by Robert Paul Wolff
(political philosopher and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst).
The requested article is titled: Real
Discrimination against Digital People and was originally
published in HumanityPlus (H+) Magazine
in 2009. He is on the
Advisory Board of The Lifeboat Foundation
because of his concern for the long-term survivability of
all humanity. Astronomy
and Physics are his favorite sciences, though he enjoys every scientific
field. He has been an avid amateur astronomer since he was thirteen… As a
teenager, he won two scholarships to study at the prestigious School
of the Art Institute of Chicago. He still draws portraits (mostly in
charcoal or pencil). He is a
founding member of the Order of Cosmic Engineers, and has been a
Life-Extensionist and Transhumanist since he was a teenager. Stephen was
invited to contribute Chapter 12 in a novel project organized by the Aiken
Standard Newspaper. The novel was written by fifteen different authors, each
one receiving no instruction whatsoever, nor allowed to communicate with the
other participants, but simply given the chapters previous to their own and
asked to continue the story. The resulting novel was titled The
Coin, and published in the Sunday edition of the Aiken Standard
Newspaper on October 18, 2009. His short
stories include The Errand Boy, which is in the anthology Writers
For Relief, Vol. 1: An Anthology to Benefit the Survivors of
Katrina. And The Land Above The Air which is in the
anthology Writers For Relief, Vol. 3. Learn more about Stephen:
The Future and You: www.thefutureandyou.com https://thefutureandyou.libsyn.com/
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SF&F Conventions ConCarolinas 2005 (Charlotte NC) LibertyCon 2004
(Chattanooga, TN) ConCarolinas
2004 (Charlotte, NC) StellarCon 2004 (High
Point, NC) LibertyCon 2003
(Chattanooga, TN) ConCarolinas 2003 (Charlotte,
NC) Photos of a Death Stacks Tournament ConCarolinas (Host of
the Tournament) me (at) stevecobb
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