Stephen Euin Cobb

Stephen Euin Cobb (born February 3, 1955) is a US science fiction author specializing in hard science fiction (fiction with a high degree of scientific accuracy).

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Stephen Euin Cobb - February 3 - 1955 - US - Science fiction - Author - Hard science fiction

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Bones Burnt Black (2004) is perhaps his best-known novel. It is an action/adventure, murder/mystery involving a serial killer aboard a large passenger spacecraft critically sabotaged by the killer. His first published novel was Plague at Redhook (1999), which dealt with nanotechnology of a highly advanced form as well as human immortality.

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Novel - Mystery - Spacecraft - Nanotechnology - Immortality

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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.

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Fictional universe - Naked Space - Cosmological

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He has also invented a number of games, the most famous being Death Stacks, for which there is an annual tournament.

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Games - Death Stacks - Tournament

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He is also the inventor of the Ignorance Index, an empirical rating system for talk shows on radio and television.

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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.

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Orangeburg - South Carolina - Forest Park - Illinois - Chicago

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