Mike Resnick

Mike Resnick, born March 5, 1942 is a popular and prolific science fiction author. The winner of 5 Hugo Awards plus other major awards in the USA, France, Japan, Spain, Croatia and Poland.  Mike currently stands 4th on the Locus list of science fiction's all-time top award winners when novels are included.  He stands 1st on the Locus list of all-tine short fiction award winners.

He sold his first article in 1957, his first short story in 1959, and his first book in 1962.

He is also a long-time participant in science fiction fandom. Always in demand as a speaker, he has been the Guest of Honor at some 38 science fiction conventions, and Toastmaster at a dozen more. During his "starving-writer" and "starving-editor" days back in the 1960s and early 1970s, he wrote more than 200 "adult" novels under pseudonyms, edited seven tabloid newspapers, and edited a trio of men's magazines.

Mike Resnick has always supported the "specialty press", and has numerous books and collections out in limited editions from such diverse publishers as Phantasia Press, Axolotl Press, Misfit Press, Pulphouse Publishing, Wildside Press, Dark Regions Press, NESFA Press, WSFA Press, Obscura Press, Farthest Star, and others. He was the science fiction science fiction editor for BenBella Books from 2004 to 2006, and recently became Executive Editor of Jim Baen's Universe.

Mike Resnick has also produced a weekly column on horse racing for more than a decade, and for eleven years wrote a monthly column on purebred collies, which he and Carol (to whom he has been married since 1961) bred and exhibited with remarkable success. His daughter, Laura Resnick, is also an award-winning and very popular science fiction and fantasy author.

Pseudonyms: , Michael Resnick , Michael D. Resnick

Selected Bibliography
Complete Bibliography

Complete Future History as published in the Starship books and a few fanzines.

Series

• Battlestar Galactica
  • 5 Galactica Discovers Earth (1980) with Glen A. Larson

• Chronicles Of Distant Worlds
  • Paradise (1989)
  • Inferno (1993)
  • Purgatory (1993)
    • Variant Title: Purgatory: A Chronicle of a Distant World (1993)

• Future History
  • Birthright: The Book of Man (1982)

• Ganymede
  • The Goddess of Ganymede (1967)
  • Pursuit on Ganymede (1968)

• John Justin Mallory
  • Stalking The Unicorn (1987)
  • Post Time In Pink (1991)
  • Stalking The Vampire (2008)
  • The Blue-Nosed Reindeer (1992)
  • Card Shark (1998)
  • The Chinese Sandman (2002)
  • The Amorous Broom (2004)
  • Shell Game (2007)
  • The Long And Short of It (2007)
  • Stalking The Dragon (2009)

• Kirinyaga
  • Kirinyaga (1997)
  • An Alien Land (1998)
  • 1 One Perfect Morning, with Jackals (1991)
  • 2 Kirinyaga (1988)
  • 3 For I Have Touched the Sky (1989)
  • 4 Bwana (1990)
  • 5 The Manamouki (1990)
  • 6 Song of a Dry River (1991)
  • 7 The Lotus and the Spear (1992)
  • 8 A Little Knowledge (1994)
  • 9 When the Old Gods Die (1995)
  • 10 The Land of Nod (1996)

• Lucifer Jones
  • Adventures (1985)
  • Lucifer Jones (1992)
  • Exploits (1993)
  • Encounters (1995)
  • Hazards (2009)

• Oracle
  • Soothsayer (1991)
  • Oracle (1992)
  • Prophet (1993)

• Starship
  • 1 Mutiny (2005)
  • 2 Pirate (2006)
  • Mercenary (2007)
  • Rebel (2008)

• Tales of the Galactic Midway
  • 1 Sideshow (1982)
  • 2 The Three-Legged Hootch Dancer (1983)
  • 3 The Wild Alien Tamer (1983)
  • 4 The Best Rootin' Tootin' Shootin' Gunslinger in the Whole Damned Galaxy (1983)

• Tales of the Velvet Comet
  • 1 Eros Ascending (1984)
  • 2 Eros at Zenith (1984)
  • 3 Eros Descending (1985)
  • 4 Eros at Nadir (1986)

• Widowmaker
  • Widowmakers (1999)
  • 1 The Widowmaker (1996)
  • 2 The Widowmaker Reborn (1997)
  • 3 The Widowmaker Unleashed (1998)
  • 4 A Gathering of Widowmakers (2005)

Nonfiction

• Putting It Together: Turning Sow's Ear Drafts into Silk Purse Stories (2000)
• I Have This Nifty Idea...Now What Do I Do with It? (2001)
• The Science Fiction Professional (2001)
• Once A Fan (2002)
• Resnick At Large (2003)
• Resnick Abroad (2008)

Comic Books

• Conan #40 (1971)

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