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Stephen writes for a variety of Popular Magazines.
Contributing editor for Space and Time
Magazine for the last
five years, 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, Grim Couture
Magazine, Port
Iris Magazine and Digit Magazine.
Stephen has interviewed over 350 people. (A partial list
of Stephen’s interviews can be found here.)
Stephen has spoken to over 150 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 30 conventions, he has been part of the scheduled programming at
DragonCon, ConCarolinas, LibertyCon, StellarCon, SheVaCon, Atomacon, and
RavenCon.
In
his acceptance speech, Stephen thanked the three podcasters who had
encouraged him to create a podcast 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
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 weird 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 Writes Novels On a planet far from Earth, remains
of a long dead alien civilization have been found. But this news has not
reached the authorities—nor will it. Fourteen murderers—a mixed bag of human
and alien criminals—have seen to that by killing the team of forty scientists
who discovered the remains. These professional criminals combine their
talents to search through the rubble for a hypothetical alien super-weapon. A homeless teenager thinks she's
got what it takes to rub shoulders with the worst of them but soon realizes
she’s in way over her head. Worse, as conflicts struggle to tear it apart,
she learns just how unstable a team of criminals can be. Call it anything you
like: treachery, betrayal, or just reducing the number with whom one must
share the final spoils. Here, as in all of life, cowards and the dead reap
nothing. A serial killer--brilliant,
methodical, and suicidal--sabotages a large commercial spacecraft's engines,
setting it on an eight-day trajectory to burn up in the sun, then remains
aboard ship to murder and torment its passengers and crew. With no other
ships near enough to reach them, rescue is impossible, and the few survivors
fight their unknown enemy while trying to invent a way to survive the deadly
scorching heat of the sun. Exploration of the newly discovered
earth-like planet Redhook stops when, for sixteen days, sleeping explorers
refuse to wake, angry ones never calm down, and one lust-filled woman chases
everyone. Assuming it to be a disease, the military places the planet under
strict quarantine and, terrified it will spread, consider using thousands of
nuclear warheads to destroy the plague by annihilating the entire biosphere
of Redhook, along with all forty-seven infected explorers. Listen for FREE to the entire novel
Bones Burnt Black by Stephen Euin
Cobb as an Audio Book using the links
below: Watch Stephen
interview 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 safety 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 www.thefutureandyou.libsyn.com
(One of many place
where the episodes may be heard. Some people like iTunes. Others prefer various podcatchers)
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