Michael Blumlein

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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1988
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Books in Order: 11 titles

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  • Long

    Michael Blumlein was one of the most singular writers to be associated with the science fiction genre. Active from the 1980s until his death in 2019, he produced a body of work notable for its literary ambition, its urbanity, its depth and breadth of...

  • Short

    Michael Blumlein was one of the most singular writers to be associated with the science fiction genre. Active from the 1980s until his death in 2019, he produced a body of work notable for its literary ambition, its urbanity, its depth and breadth of...

  • Longer

    "This is why I read science fiction." -- Daryl Gregory In Longer, Michael Blumlein explores dauntingly epic topics -- love, the expanse of the human lifespan, mortality -- with a beautifully sharp story that glows with grace and good humor even as...

  • Thoreau's Microscope

    The innovative novels and stories of Michael Blumlein, MD, have introduced new levels of both terror and wonder into the fiction of scientific speculation. His work as a medical researcher and internist at San Francisco’s UCSF Medical Center inform...

  • All I Ever Dreamed: Stories

    In the opening story of this extraordinary collection, “California Burning,” a man must come to terms with a strange truth about his dead father, whose corpse refuses to be cremated. In “Snow in Dirt,” a man finds the woman of his dreams b...

  • What the Doctor Ordered

    Written over the course of three decades, these remarkable stories showcase the breadth and power of Michael Blumlein's vision. By turns prescient, poignant, haunting, and humorous, they consistently amaze and delight. They are celebrations: of sc...

  • The Roberts

    Robert Fairchild is a genius.He is also lonely.Dubbed "the one-eyed architect,” Robert and his innovative buildings are praised to the skies. Suddenly his masterpiece, a dome made from a living membrane, collapses in on its inhabitants. Meanwhile ...

  • Healer

    Payne is a member of a minority offshoot of humanity called Grotesques, or Tesques, who are distinguished by a cranial deformity and an extra orifice in their chest. A small percentage of Tesques have the ability to effect phenomenal healings, which ...

  • X,Y

    The world of Frankie, a stripper, is turned upside down when a mysterious fat man walks into her club and a siren goes off, and Frankie wakes up the next morning as a man. Original....



  • The Brains of Rats

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    In these twelve stories we enter the darkest corridors of America        s hospitals. Meet a scientist who discovers how to predetermine and alter the sex of a pregnant woman        s fetus, and proceeds to contemplate his own gender....

  • Movement of Mountains

    When a virus attacks a race of genetically engineered slaves, Dr. Jules Ebert must decide whether to cure the disease or allow its dissemination on the chance that it will liberate the slaves and the rest of humankind...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael Blumlein has published 11 books.

Michael Blumlein does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Long, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Michael Blumlein, Movement of Mountains, was published in July 1988.

No. Michael Blumlein does not write books in series.
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