Author Archives: Mike

About Mike

According to Locus, I am the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short fiction. I have won 5 Hugos (from a record 35 nominations), a Nebula, and other major awards in the USA, France, Japan, Spain, Croatia, and Poland. I'm the author of 64 novels, over 250 stories, and 2 screenplays, and the editor of 40 anthologies. My work has been translated into 25 languages.

My Chicon 7 Diary, as WorldCon Guest of Honor

NOTE: Every year I write a Worldcon Diary for Challenger, a multiple Hugo nominee. Now that it has reached all its subscribers, I got editor Guy Lillian’s permission to run it here as well, since this was a very special … Continue reading

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Another story sale

Collaborator Lou Berger and I just sold a short story, “A Beautiful Friendship”, to Fiction River. Lou thus becomes my 49th short fiction collaborator, to go along with novel collaborators George Alec Effinger, Jack L. Chalker, and Jack McDevitt.

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2 resales to Britain

Just resold “The Incarceration of Captain Nebula” to England’s The Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes 2, and “The Wizard of West 34th Street” to The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic.

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Resnick/Malzberg Dialogues #2: Editors

NOTE: this article first appeared in the pages of SFWA Bulletin 141, Spring, 1999. MIKE: The first four truly influential short story editors in the field were John Campbell, Anthony Boucher, Horace Gold, and Mike Moorcock. I don’t think there’s … Continue reading

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Guest of Honor speech from Chicon 7

As most of you know, I had the privilege and the pleasure of being the Worldcon’s Guest of Honor last year. Below is first part of my GOH speech in three YouTube segments of roughly 15 minutes each. Watch them … Continue reading

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Resnick/Malzberg Dialogues #1: The Specialty Press

SPECIAL NOTE: Barry Malzberg and I have been writing The Resnick/Malzberg Dialogues for the quarterly SFWA Bulletin for more than 15 years. (We just handed in our 62nd.) And now that we’ve run through 60+ Ask Bwana columns (though I’ll … Continue reading

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Ask Bwana #63

The original 59 Ask Bwana columns ran in Speculations and were reprinted here over the past year and a half, with updates where required. This is the four all-new Ask Bwana column answering questions that arrived while the originals were … Continue reading

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Anthology news

Nice week for anthologies. Bryan Thomas Schmidt’s Raygun Chronicles, featuring two of my stories — “Catastrophe Baker and the Ship Who Purred” and “Catastrophe Baker in the Hall of the Neptunian Kings” — got its funding. John Ordover’s Baconthology, featuring … Continue reading

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Ask Bwana #62

Okay, here we are with a third set of recent questions (and answers, of course) to follow the 59 Ask Bwana columns I’ve run and updated here. QUESTION: What’s something you think your successful writer proteges are doing right? ANSWER: … Continue reading

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Galaxy’s Edge #1 goes live

Galaxy’s Edge #1, the new magazine I’m editing, went “live” in March 1. You can find it at http://www.galaxysedge.com/ The issue features Jack McDevitt, Robert J. Sawyer, Kij Johnson, James Patrick Kelly, Barry Malzberg, and more. It’s published by Arc … Continue reading

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