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Guest Profile
Stephen Euin Cobb
Stephen Euin Cobb is a Hard SF author, futurist and host of the award-winning podcast "The Future And You" (which recently teamed with "Jim Baen's Universe," the SF&F online magazine from Baen Books, where he now writes a regular column). He is also a game designer, artist, essayist and transhumanist.
As host of "The Future And You," a two-hour long podcast, he interviews authors, celebrities, scientists and "pioneers of the future" as to what they believe both the near future and distant future will be like.
Nanotech, biotech and exoplanets are popular topics on his show; as are cryonics, organlegging, computers wired into the human brain, global warming, genetic engineering of humans, faster than light travel, worm holes, black holes, transhumanism, and the technology of living more-or-less forever.
Greg Bear, David Drake and Alan Dean Foster have all been guests; as have Kim Stanley Robinson, David B. Coe, John Ringo, Spider Robinson, Eric Flint, David Brin, Mike Resnick, Sarah A. Hoyt, Joe Haldeman, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Vernor Vinge and Catherine Asaro. Less famous guests have included Rudi Hoffman (a cryonics insurance agent), Mike Treder (CEO of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology), John R. Douglas (editor of Scifipedia from scifi.com), and Lionel Vogt (a transhumanist and TV battle-robot builder).
Bones Burnt Black (2004) is Stephen's most widely read novel and is being serialized as an audio book within each episode of his podcast. His essays (in print and in his show) generally deal with the future or with science.
He has invented several games, the most famous being "Death Stacks" for which there is an annual tournament held each summer in Charlotte NC at the SF&F convention ConCarolinas. He also invented the Ignorance Index, an empirical rating system for radio and television talk shows.
His hobbies include astronomy (he has a 10.1 inch Dobsonian telescope), handwriting analysis and drawing in charcoal and pastels.
Guest Website : www.stevecobb.com
