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.

Novels edit

• The Movement of Mountains (1987)
• X,Y (1993)
• The Healer (2005)

Short fiction edit

Collections edit

• The Brains of Rats (1988)
• What the Doctor Ordered (2013)
• Thoreau's Microscope (2018) (also containing bibliography and interview with Terry Bisson)
• All I Ever Dreamed: Stories (2018) (collection reprinting the above collections, along with two uncollected stories)
• Long (2023) (containing all of Blumlein's novellas)
• Short (2023) (containing all of Blumlein's short stories)

Novellas edit

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

• Michael Blumlein.com
• Michael Blumlein at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database