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Coonts, Stephen

(1946-    ) US author and editor, author of the Saucer sequence, comprising Saucer (2003) and Saucer: The Conquest (2005), in which a young man discovers an ancient artefact – the eponymous spaceship – and must fight friend and foe in order to retain it in order to save humanity. Coonts's Military SF anthology, Combat (anth 2001; in three cut parts, all three together making up the whole, vt Combat #1 2001, cut vt Combat #2 2002 and cut vt Combat #3 2002), focuses on Near Future scenarios depicted realistically, as far as a close technical focus on combat constitutes a realistic take on the issues necessarily broached. Throughout the series a powerful understanding of "honour" runs in tandem with a contempt for government. [JC]

Stephen Paul Coonts

born Morgantown, Pennsylvania: 19 July 1946

works

series

Saucer

• Saucer (New York: St Martin's Griffin, 2003) [Saucer: pb/Edwin Herder]
• Saucer: The Conquest (New York: St Martin's Griffin, 2004) [Saucer: pb/Tony Greco]
• Saucer: Savage Planet (New York: St Martin's Griffin, 2014) [Saucer: hb/Maspix/Alamy & Shutterstock.com]

works as editor

• Combat (New York: Tor/Forge Books, 2001) [anth: hb/]
  • Combat #1 (New York: Tor, 2001) [anth: cut vt of the above: pb/]
  • Combat #2 (New York: Tor, 2002) [anth: cut vt of the above: pb/]
  • Combat #3 (New York: Tor, 2002) [anth: cut vt of the above: pb/]

links

• Stephen Coonts
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 19:45 pm on 7 September 2024.
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