Stephen Goldin

I was born in Philadelphia in 1947, but I've lived in California since I was 13. I received a Bachelor's degree in Astronomy from UCLA.

My first job out of college was as a civilian space scientist for the U.S. Navy, but left after several years  to try writing full time. I only regretted the move every other Thursday, when I would have gotten paid.

After several years of genteel poverty, I took a job as writer/editor for a pornographic humor paper, the San Francisco Ball. At about this time, too, I began selling novels on a regular basis. While I held down other full-time employment from time to time (I helped design the Star Trek: The Next Generation computer game "A Final Unity" for Spectrum HoloByte and also wrote manuals and game design documents for Maxis), my real love is fiction writing.

My first wife was fellow author Kathleen Sky. Our medieval-style wedding was a Saturday morning program item at the 1972 World Science Fiction Convention in Los Angeles. In the 10+ years of our marriage, in addition to our individual works, we collaborated on a pair of stories ("Painting the Roses Red" and "The Devil Behind the Leaves") about the diMedicis, a family of interstellar swindlers. We also co-authored the highly successful nonfiction book, The Business of Being a Writer, based on a class we taught at California State University at Northridge.

My current wife is fellow author Mary Mason. Our wedding took place the night before EclectiCon 1 in Sacramento, where I was the Guest of Honor. We currently live in the San Francisco East Bay area. So far, we've co-authored two books in the Rehumanization of Jade Darcy series: Jade Darcy and the Affair of Honor and Jade Darcy and the Zen Pirates. More books in this series are planned.

I'm an atheist and I've lived with cats all my adult life. Artistically I enjoy Broadway musical albums and surrealist art.