Fiction
Michael A. Burstein

In press

Published

• "The Wizard's Legacy" (Heroes in Training, edited by Jim C. Hines, DAW Books, October 2007)
• "Moving Day" (Visual Journeys, edited by Eric T. Reynolds, Hadley Rille Books, June 2007)
• "Things That Aren't" (with Robert Greenberger) (Analog, April 2007)
  • Currently on the preliminary ballot for the 2007 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
• "The Soldier Within" (Future Weapons of War, edited by Joe Haldeman and Martin H. Greenberg, Baen Books, March 2007)
• Chapter 16 of "Your Title Here: Mike Resnick's Round Robin Spectacular" (Fictionwise.com, September 2006)
• "Redemption in the Quantum Foam" (Space Cadets, edited by Mike Resnick, SCIFI, August 2006)
• "Sanctuary" (Analog, September 2005)
  • Winner of the Analytical Laboratory Award for Best Novella of 2005
  • Nominated for the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novella
• "TelePresence" (Analog, July/August 2005)
  • Nominated for the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
• "Pedagogy" (I, Alien, edited by Mike Resnick, DAW Books, April 2005)
• "Seventy-Five Years" (Analog, January/February 2005)
  • Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story
  • Audio version available: EP053: Seventy-Five Years
• "Time Ablaze" (Analog, June 2004) (novella)
  • Nominated for the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novella
  • My fourth cover, courtesy of W. K. Gilbert
  • For more information, check out The General Slocum Webpage
  • Tangent Online published a nice review of the story in their review of the June 2004 Analog here (excerpt here)
  • Preliminary ballot, Nebula Award
• "Decisions" (Analog, January/February 2004) (short story)
  • Nominated for the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
• "Lifeblood" (New Voices in Science Fiction, edited by Mike Resnick, DAW Books, December 2003) (short story)
• "The New Breed" (Men Writing Science Fiction as Women, edited by Mike Resnick, DAW Books, November 2003) (short story)
• "Paying It Forward" (Analog, September 2003) (novelette)
  • Nominated for the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
  • Preliminary ballot, Nebula Award
• "In Her Image" (Analog, October 2002) (novelette)
• "Reflections in Black Granite" (with Mike Resnick) (In the Shadow of the Wall edited by Byron Teitrick, Cumberland House, June 2002) (short story)
• "The Great Miracle" (Analog, December 2001)
• "Bug Out!" (with Shane Tourtellotte) (Analog, July/August 2001)
  • My third cover, artwork by Bob Eggleton
  • Preliminary ballot, Nebula Award (Novella)
• "Spaceships" (Analog, June 2001)
  • Nominated for the 2002 Hugo Award
  • Preliminary ballot, Nebula Award (Short story)
• "The Cold Calculations" (Absolute Magnitude, Spring 2001)
  • My second cover, artwork by Bob Eggleton
• "Kaddish for the Last Survivor" (Analog, November 2000)
  • Nominated for the 2001 Nebula Award
  • Nominated for the 2001 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
  • Nominated for the 2001 HOMer Award for Best Short Story
  • Available at Fictionwise.com
• "If Ben Franklin Had Gotten His Way" (Analog, July/August 2000)
• "Debunking the Faith Healer" (with Lawrence D Weinberg) (Analog, June 2000)
• "The Turing Testers" (with Joseph J. Lazzaro) (Analog, April 2000)
• "Escape Horizon" (Analog, March 2000)
  • My first cover, artwork by Bob Eggleton
• "The Quantum Teleporter" (Analog, February 2000)
• "Whose Millennium?" (Analog, January 2000)
• "Reality Check" (Analog, November 1999)
  • Nominated for the 1999 Nebula Award for Best Novella
  • Nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
  • Available for purchase at Fictionwise.com
• "Vanishing Tears" ( The Age of Reason, ed. by Kurt Roth, SFF-Net, August 1999)
  • Available for purchase at Fictionwise.com
  • Order the book for $14.95 from SFF-Net
• "Hunger" (Horrors! 365 Scary Stores, October 1998)
  • Available for purchase at Fictionwise.com
• "Nor Through Inaction" (with Charles Ardai) (Analog, October 1998)
  • Preliminary ballot, 1999 Nebula Award (Short Story)
• "Absent Friends" (Analog, September 1998)
  • Preliminary Ballot. 1999 Nebula Award (Novelette)
  • Available for purchase at Fictionwise.com
• "The Parallels of Penzance" (with Stanley Schmidt) (Pieces of Six, August 1998)
• "In Space, No One Can Hear" (Analog , July/August 1998)
  • Preliminary Ballot, 1999 Nebula Award (Short Story)
  • Available for purchase at Fictionwise.com
• "Cosmic Corkscrew" (Analog, June 1998)
  • Nominated for the 1999 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
  • Preliminary Ballot, 1998 Nebula Award
  • Available for purchase at Fictionwise.com
• "The Cure" (Analog, December 1997)
  • Available for purchase at Fictionwise.com
• "The Spider in the Hairdo" (Urban Nightmares, edited by Keith R.A. DeCandido and Josepha Sherman, Baen Books, November 1997)
  • Read the opening scene
  • Preliminary Ballot, 1998 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Acheivement in Horror
  • Available for purchase at Fictionwise.com
• "Heisenberg's Magazine" (Analog, March 1997)
• "Broken Symmetry" (Analog, February 1997, novelette)
  • Nominated for 1998 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
  • Preliminary Ballot, 1997 Nebula Award
  • Available for purchase at Fictionwise.com
• "Sentimental Value" (Analog, October 1995)
• "TeleAbsence" (Analog, July 1995)
  • Nominated for the 1996 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
  • Winner of the Analytical Laboratory Award for Best Short Story of 1995
  • Winner of the Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award for Best Short Story of 1995
  • Winner of the 1996 CSW Bug Eyed Critter Award for Best Short Story
  • Available for purchase at Fictionwise.com