About

Michael Blumlein, M.D. is a fiction writer and a physician. Most of his writing is in or near the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Is 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. Is short stories have been collected in anthologies and published in Interzone and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, among others.

Michael Blumlein, M.D. is a fiction writer and a physician. 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.

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 hey are celebrations: of science, of love, of partnership, of difference.

They are odes to the joy of discovery, inside and out hey are populated by heroes fallen heroes, everyday heroes, heroes as tall as a redwood or as tiny as a blade of grass They are powered by sex, romance, pleasure in all its forms, anguish in some of its forms, ambition and music.

Hese are political stories Blumlein is nothing if not humane and just His signature wit is on full display.

He man is a born barker, a pitchman for the weird, the provocative and the ridiculous He's a nature boy He's a student and a biology geek hese stories are personal and historical They track the arc of a man's life and the lives he carries with him hey swim in the shifting current of American culture and society, from late last century to today If Blumlein has something to say to us, it might be this: tell the truth, do a good deed, lighten up and stay curious ichael Blumlein is the author of The Movement of Mountains, X,Y, The Healer, and, most recently, Ageless He is also the author of the award-winning story collection The Brains of Rats e has been nominated twice for the World Fantasy Award and twice for the Bram Stoker Award, and has been short-listed for the Tiptree Award He has written for the stage and for film, and his novel X,Y was made into a feature-length movie n addition to writing, Dr Blumlein practices and teaches medicine at the University of California at San Francisco.

Edition Details

• New Introduction by Rudy Rucker.
• Limited to 250 copies, each signed by Michael Blumlein and artist Brian McCarty.
• Striking dustjacket printed on Mohawk Carnival stock.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.

External Links

• What the Doctor Ordered. Centipede Press page for What the Doctor Ordered
• Michael Blumlein (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Michael Blumlein