Michael Blumlein

Michael Blumlein, M.D. (June 28, 1948 – October 24, 2019) was an American fiction writer and a physician.

Michael Blumlein
Born	(1948-06-28)June 28, 1948 San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died	October 24, 2019(2019-10-24) (aged 71)
Occupation	Author, physician
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of California, San Francisco
Genre	Science fiction, fantasy, horror
Website
www.michaelblumlein.com

Profile

Blumlein attended medical school at the University of California, San Francisco and worked as a practicing doctor and member of the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco for decades.^[1] The majority of Blumlein's fiction was in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He was nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award. His short fiction was published in venues including Interzone and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and republished in anthologies and collections.

Bibliography

Novels

• The Movement of Mountains (St. Martin's Press, 1987)
• X, Y (Dell, 1993)
• The Healer (Pyr, 2005)

Short fiction

Collections

• The Brains of Rats (Scream/Press, 1990). Collection of 12 stories.
• What the Doctor Ordered (Centi­pede Press, 2013). Collection of 14 stories and novellas.
• All I Ever Dreamed (Valancourt Books, 2018). Selection of 18 stories and novellas 1993–2016.
• Thoreau's Microscope (PM Press, 2018). Includes title essay, 3 stories, a novelette, as well as a bibliography and interview with Terry Bisson.
• Long (Subterranean Press, 2023). Includes all 7 of Blumlein's novellas and longer stories.
• Short (Subterranean Press, 2023). Includes all 29 of Blumlein's short stories.

Novellas

• The Roberts (Tachyon Publications, 2011)
• Longer (Tor.com, 2019)