Coonts, Stephen

Entry updated 13 April 2026. Tagged: Author.

(1946- ) US editor and author, most of his work, like his first publication, Flight of the Intruder (1986), being nonfantastic Technothrillers in military settings. In his Saucer sequence, comprising Saucer (2003) and Saucer: The Conquest (2005), 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/]

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