Novelist Stephanie Osborn

Stephanie Osborn

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The Interstellar Woman of Mystery

Science & Science Fiction Mystery

Writer of Burnout, soon to become a major motion picture!



Burnout cover link Fetish cover link Extraction Point cover link Y Factor cover link Cresperian Alliance cover link Dreams of Steam cover link Reconstruction cover link The Arrival cover link At Speed cover link Rendlesham Incident cover link Endings & Beginnings cover link Sherlock Sheilas & Seven Percent Solution cover link Space Weather cover link Alien Invasion cover link American Space Plan cover link How I Wrote cover link Stolen Moments cover link The More Things Change cover link Bunker cover link StarSong cover link




Welcome to my website! I am a retired rocket scientist turned writer who likes to mingle science fiction and mystery with a strong element of action thriller and a touch of romance. My style has been described as, "Hard-edged SF that wraps a compelling mystery around 'this is the real thing' space science... tight, tense, and gripping--- Osborn tells a damn good story, and tells it well."
~ Holly Lisle, author of The Ruby Key: Moon & Sun I

My very first book, Burnout: The mystery of Space Shuttle STS-281, "is a compelling, impossible to put down, first novel in the class of Skylark of Space or 'Lifeline.'... It may perhaps be the most realistic view ever published in fiction about what happens behind the scenes at NASA."
~ Jim Woosley, Ph.D. physicist and Heinlein essayist

If you like hard science fiction, exciting cliffhangers, mysterious situations, and determined, passionate characters, push farther into my site and see what I have going!

Books in the Point series, with Travis S. Taylor:
Extraction Point!
Conquest Point
Breaking Point
End Point


Books in the Burnout series:
Burnout, soon to become a major motion picture!
The Fetish, an ebook short story
Escape Velocity

Books in the Displaced Detective Series:
The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival
The Case of the Displaced Detective: At Speed
The Case of the Cosmological Killer: The Rendlesham Incident
The Case of the Cosmological Killer: Endings and Beginnings
A Case of Spontaneous Combustion
A Little Matter of Earthquakes
The Adventure of Shining Mountain Lodge

and more!
Also check out the nonfiction Sherlock, Sheilas, and the Seven-Percent Solution

Books in the Cresperian Saga (Osborn, Taylor, Darrell Bain):
Human By Choice
The Y Factor
The Cresperian Alliance
Heritage


Anthologies & Contributions:
Dreams of Steam
How I Wrote My First Book: The Story Behind The Story (nonfiction)
Southern Fried Weirdness: Reconstruction,
a charity anthology
Alien Invasion: How To Defend Earth
(nonfiction)

Nonfiction, Science
The Rocket City Rednecks' New American Space Plan (Taylor, Osborn; nonfiction; Nov 2012)
The Weather Out There Is Frightful, Solar/Space Weather and What It Means to the Earth and You (nonfiction)

Poetry
Stolen Moments, a collection of poetry

Short Stories
The More Things Change
The Bunker

Childrens' Books
StarSong

FUN STUFF!

DeepSouthCon 50's first panel, "Creating Aliens," filmed by Tedd Roberts
(is about an hour long; make sure you have time)

The Weird Review interviews me at FandomFest!
(this one is shorter)

Reminder of Stephanie Osborn's Upcoming Appearances!

All times are Central unless otherwise stated.




Announcements!

    The Bunker is now available on CD as an audiobook! Coming soon to Audible!

    Shiny Book Review gives A New American Space Plan an A, calling it "interesting, ambitious"!

    Now available: AUTOGRAPHED BOOKS, straight from the author!

    WUTC Public Radio's interview about Stephanie's Displaced Detective series is picked for the BEST OF SHOW EPISODE!

    The Tonight Show, with Jay Leno featured A New American Space Plan on Tuesday 27 Nov,
    when my co-author Travis Taylor and some of the other Rocket City Rednecks appeared on the show!

    WUTC Public Radio interviews Stephanie about her Displaced Detective series!

    WUTC Public Radio companion audio

    COOL NEWS: Now here's a recommendation you don't get every day.

    On 12-14 Oct I was the Mistress of Ceremonies for Huntsville's Con*Stellation
    SF convention. After the opening ceremonies, famed SF writer Eric Flint came up to me...and
    informed me that his wife, Lucille, positively loved my books! She has read all three of the
    Displaced Detective novels currently out, and is eagerly awaiting book 4 next month! THEN he
    followed me to the dealer's room and bought a copy of Burnout and a copy of Extraction Point -
    insisting I autograph both! And as if that weren't enough, it turns out that Lucille (Lu as Mr. Flint
    calls her) was gifted the Displaced Detective books by Walt Boyes, who is, to quote Eric, "one of
    the inner circle (so to speak) of the [NYT-best-selling] 1632 series authors," and who
    "recommended them highly"!

    My mind is blown. I have been flying high ever since. It doesn't get much better than that!

    UPDATE: It got better! As if Eric and Lucille Flint and Walt Boyes weren't enough, Rick Boatright
    informed me of this last night: "You have a huge chunk of the 1632 core writers group who are
    fans. Eric and Lu, Walt, Paula, me, Laura, and I know you're buds with Chuck Gannon."
    I am more honored than I can say.

    UPDATE 2: Still better! The Fetish, my short story ebook set in the Burnout universe, is a
    2013 EPIC Award Finalist in the best short story category! *happy dance*


    Swag surprise! Love Potion Magickal Perfumerie, a wonderful artisan fragrance boutique,
    and I have collaborated on a series of perfumes based on the Displaced Detective series!
    We have Watson, a men's fragrance; 221b, a women's fragrance (think Skye!), and
    Elementary Chapter 4, Holmes' own scent, which men AND women can wear! (If you're
    THE Woman, that is!)

    More about the boutique:
    "Here at Love Potion Magickal Perfumerie, we combine over 25 years of experience in crafting
    artisinal perfumes with care for the historical and magical meanings of the ingredients as well as
    cutting edge science pertaining to pheromone research and new data on human responses to
    olfactory stimuli." I don't know about the magic bit, but they sure make awesome perfumes!


    Want a signature on your ebook? Here you go!

    Dr. Amy H. Sturgis, author and professor of History, has given lectures on "Sherlock Holmes and
    Science Fiction." I was fortunate enough to attend one of these and to my surprise, found she
    was using the Displaced Detective series as a prime example of the genre crossover! Now her
    video lecture is available online!


    It is with great pleasure that we announce that we have access to POLO SHIRTS.
    Our author series of shirts are available in 3 & 1/2 inch designs on polo shirts. The
    price for the Burnout shirts in Polo is $5 above the regular price. The Polo Shirt sizes
    are S - 4X but no XLTs are available in Polo. Email:
    mystikwaboose@yahoo.com


    Burnout: The mystery of Space Shuttle STS-281 is soon to become a major motion picture!
    We are looking for a limited number of investors and screenplay writers - be a part of motion
    picture history! Interested parties are invited to contact:
    FFE Productions
    P.O. Box 741091
    Boynton Beach, FL 33474;
    or call 305-333-1554
    or email moviegreat@aol.com


    Burnout Items Available at Cafe Press! See The Doctor's Lab at Cafe Press for items
    from Stephanie Osborn's books and Mad Doc Osborn's World Domination campaign!
    More coming soon!


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