Stephen Allen Robinett was an American writer of science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 and mystery novel

Novel

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s and short stories.

Robinett's first publication was part of the March 1969 edition of the magazine Analog Science Fiction and Fact

Analog Science Fiction and Fact

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: the novelette Minitalent, which was published with his most-used pseudonym, Tak Hallus (which he claimed was Persian for "pseudonym"). By the mid-1970s, however, he had begun using his own name. He published two novels, Stargate and The Man Responsible during the mid-1970s, and continued to publish novels and short fiction until the early 1990s.

He also wrote extensively in the area of business journalism and was a lawyer licensed in the State of California.

He died on 16 February 2004 from complications caused by Hodgkins disease.

Novels

• Mindwipe! (1976) (as Steve Hahn)
• Stargate (1976)
• The Man Responsible (1978)
• Final Option (1990)
• Unfinished Business (1990)