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

physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

. 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. Most of his writing is in or near the genres of

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imagination, imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, Paral ...

fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and drama ...

, and horror. His novels include ''The Healer'', ''The Movement of Mountains'' and ''X, Y''. He has been nominated for the

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and the

Bram Stoker Award The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented annually by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in dark fantasy and horror writing. History The Awards were established in 1987 and have been presented annually since ...

. His short stories have been collected in anthologies and published in '' Interzone'' and ''

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy fiction magazine, fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence E. Spivak, Lawrence Spiva ...

'', among others.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''The Movement of Mountains'' (1987) * ''X,Y'' (1993) * ''The Healer'' (2005) * ''The Roberts'' (

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, 2011) *''Longer'' ( Tor.com, 2019)

Short fiction

;Collections * ''The Brains of Rats'' (1988) * ''What the Doctor Ordered'' (2013) * ''All I Ever Dreamed'' (2018) * ''Thoreau's Microscope'' (2018) ;StoriesShort stories unless otherwise noted.

References

External links

Michael Blumlein.com
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