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Stephen Euin Cobb

Author, Futurist, Columnist, Artist, Essayist, Magazine Writer

Stephen writes for a variety of Popular Magazines. A columnist and contributing editor for Jim Baen's Universe Magazine for three years (2006-2010), Stephen has also been a contributing editor for Robot Magazine. And has written for Space and Time Magazine, H+ Magazine, Grim Couture Magazine, Port Iris Magazine and Digit Magazine. Stephen has interviewed over three hundred people. Bestselling authors, celebrities from TV and movies, as well as researchers, comedians, scientists, engineers, academics, entrepreneurs and politicians; many for magazines, but more as host of The Future And You. Over 300 people have been guests on his show during its six years, sharing their expectations of the real future we are all going to live in. Listeners in 124 nations around the world celebrated its 200th episode on May 25, 2011. Stephen's interviews have won him an Award. This was for his popular weekly interview-based Podcast in which he and his guests discuss all the ways our lives are going to be different in the future. The 2006 Parsec Award for "Best Speculative Fiction News Podcast" was given to the show's host, Stephen Euin Cobb, on the evening of September 2, 2006, at the first annual Parsec Award ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia. 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 science fiction conventions, book signings and TV appearances. Stephen writes Novels. Skinbrain On an earth-like planet far from Earth the 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. One under-age street-tough thinks she's got what it takes to rub shoulders and bump heads 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. Bones Burnt Black A serial killer—brilliant, methodical and suicidal—sabotages a large commercial spacecraft's engines to set 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 growing heat of the sun. Plague at Redhook Exploration of the earth-like planet Redhook stalls 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 U.N. military places the planet under strict quarantine and, terrified it will spread, consider using their latest weapon to destroy this plague by annihilating the entire biosphere of Redhook, along with all forty-seven infected explorers. Stephen’s other Passions: Stephen enjoys speaking at science fiction and fantasy conventions. He has moderated panels, lectured, helped teach writing seminars even been the Master of Ceremonies. A veteran of 23 cons, he has been part of the entertainment at DragonCon, ConCarolinas, LibertyCon, StellarCon, SheVaCon and RavenCon. He is on the Advisory Board of The Lifeboat Foundation because of his concern for the long term safety of all humanity. As a teenager he won two scholarships to study at the prestigious School of the Art Institue of Chicago. He still draws portraits (mostly in charcoal or pencil). Stephen has agreed to let one of his articles be included in a college text book 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 published in H+ Magazine in 2009. He is a founding member of the Order of Cosmic Engineers, and has been a Life-Extensionist and Transhumanist since he was a teenager. Astronomy and Physics are his favorite sciences, though he enjoys every scientific field. He has been an avid amateur astronomer since he was thirteen. 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 Learn more about Stephen: Wikipedia article about Stephen Stephen's bibliography at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Learn more about Stephen’s Podcast The Future and You: Wikipedia www.thefutureandyou.libsyn.com www.thefutureandyou.com

Magazines Stephen has written for: Photos of Stephen on TV Photos of Stephen hanging out with celebrities Photos of Stephen interviewing celebrities Photos of Stephen interviewing authors Stephen's Award-Winning Podcast about the Future Photos of Stephen at SF&F Conventions ConCarolinas 2005 (Charlotte NC) LibertyCon 2004  (Chattanooga, TN) ConCarolinas 2004 (Charlotte, NC) StellarCon 2004  (High Point, NC)  Dragon*Con 2003 (Atlanta, GA) LibertyCon 2003  (Chattanooga, TN) ConCarolinas 2003 (Charlotte, NC) Photos from some of Stephen's earliest book signing tours The Annual Death Stacks Tournament (a game Stephen invented) is held each year in Charlotte NC at ConCarolinas Game Instructions  Wikipedia Article Photos of a Death Stacks Tournament ConCarolinas (Host of the Tournament)  Tell Stephen, Hi! (if you can decipher this) me at stevecobb dot corn