Wildside (Tor, 1996): A group of Texas high school graduates find a hole into a pristine parallel world unspoiled by man and human-instigated extinctions.Jumper (Tor, 1992): A young man discovers he has the ability to teleport, and uses it to fight terrorists while evading government agents.This list of works (data from ISFDB) covers Gould's novels, speculative fiction short fiction, and essays and includes general themes for each of the novels. The couple currently live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mixon and moved with her to New York City, where her job supported them while he finished his first novel, Jumper. Gould has been an instructor at the annual one-week speculative fiction workshop Viable Paradise since 2000. Greenwar was a collaboration with his wife, Laura J. His scuba diving hobby informed scenes in his novels Greenwar and Blind Waves. The young protagonists of both books become proficient at the martial art and eventually embrace it as a full lifestyle. Gould practices and teaches aikido, which is featured prominently in his books 7th Sigma and Helm. Gould was president of SFWA for two years through June 2015. He was also a guest lecturer at Texas A&M in 1990. Gould was director of the south/central region of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) from 1986–1989. Gould did, and the story was published by Analog in 1980. Sturgeon made one correction ('Calvary and Cavalry are two different things') and suggested that Gould submit it to Stan Schmidt, who had become editor at Analog in late 1978. The second story Gould wrote, 'The Touch of Their Eyes,' was read aloud by Theodore Sturgeon at a writing workshop at AggieCon in 1979. Gould submitted the first short story he wrote to Analog it was rejected with a personal note from then-editor Ben Bova, who encouraged Gould to let him see his future work.

Aggiecon, which is held in College Station on the Texas A&M campus, was the first science fiction convention Gould attended, and he was chair of Aggiecon V in 1975. Gould attended Texas A&M University and has set much of his writing in Texas. The whole family learned to scuba dive there and Gould went diving frequently. His father was an Army officer when Gould was in junior high his father was stationed at Fort Shafter in Hawaii for three years. Steven Charles Gould was born in Fort Huachuca, Arizona on February 7, 1955, to James Alan and Carita Louise Gould.

He is best known for his 1992 novel Jumper, which was adapted into a film released in 2008.

Steven Charles Gould (born February 7, 1955) is an American science fiction writer and teacher.

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