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Michael Blumlein
Born(1948-06-28)June 28, 1948
San Francisco, California, U.S.
DiedOctober 24, 2019(2019-10-24) (aged 71)
OccupationAuthor, physician
NationalityAmerican
GenreScience fiction, fantasy, horror
Website
www.michaelblumlein.com

Michael Blumlein, M.D. (June 28, 1948 – October 24, 2019) was an American fiction writer and a physician. Blumlein attended medical school at the University of California, San Francisco and worked as a practicing doctor and member of the faculty at University of California, San Francisco for decades.[1]

Most of his writing is in or near the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His novels include The Healer, The Movement of Mountains and X, Y. He has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award. His short stories have been collected in anthologies and published in Interzone and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, among others.

Bibliography

Novels

Short fiction

Collections
  • The Brains of Rats (1988)
  • What the Doctor Ordered (2013)
  • All I Ever Dreamed (2018)
  • Thoreau's Microscope (2018)
Stories[2]
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
Fidelity : a primer 2000 Blumlein, Michael (September 2000). "Fidelity : a primer". F&SF. 99 (3): 85–105.

References

  1. ^ "Michael Blumlein (1948-2019)". Locus Magazine. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  2. ^ Short stories unless otherwise noted.