Mike Resnick Books in Order

Soldier of fortune Adam Thane joins a secret NASA expedition to Ganymede, where breathable air conceals a violent civilization. Drawn into its wars, he confronts rulers worshipped as gods and becomes involved with Princess Delisse.

Adam Thane pursues the abducted Princess Delisse into Ganymede’s unfamiliar eastern hemisphere. Monsters, captivity, and gladiatorial combat obstruct his search as the mysterious Tarafulga pursues a scheme involving immortality and military conquest.

In a devastated future, Red Will Donahoe travels through a ruined city populated by mutants. Across the river, Gareth Cole rules through his mastery of mutation, setting the stage for conflict between competing human communities.

Big-game hunter Nicobar Lane dismisses a wealthy woman’s request to hunt the legendary Dreamwish Beast. After encountering it himself, he becomes consumed by a pursuit that takes him across the galaxy and beyond ordinary ambition.

Faster-than-light travel opens the stars to humanity in the twenty-fifth century. Through linked episodes involving explorers, settlers, merchants, and politicians, this future history follows the expansion of human power and its consequences for alien civilizations.

Carnival owner Thaddeus Flint struggles to keep his traveling sideshow profitable through bargains and deception. When alien visitors become involved with his performers, the possibilities extend beyond familiar fairgrounds and into the business of interstellar entertainment.

Mass murderer Conrad Bland finds refuge on a planet whose inhabitants worship evil. When his presence becomes intolerable, they hire the assassin Jericho, leaving policeman John Sable caught between two very different forms of killing.

Carnival sharpshooter Billybuck Dancer wants opponents who can shoot back instead of harmless targets. Thaddeus Flint arranges a showdown with a robotic Doc Holliday, turning the performer’s fantasy of legendary gunfights into a potentially fatal encounter.

Thaddeus Flint’s traveling carnival takes its performers, animals, and games to remote planets. Alien audiences prove difficult customers: familiar gambling attractions and Butterfly Delight’s dancing lose their appeal, forcing the struggling show to improvise.

Thaddeus Flint brings his carnival to alien worlds, where familiar sideshow routines encounter unfamiliar expectations. Schemes backfire, business becomes unpredictable, and an animal trainer faces a particularly dangerous challenge when his charges possess minds of their own.

The Velvet Comet offers wealthy travelers a spaceborne brothel, casinos, restaurants, and shopping. A struggle within its corporate owner brings a hired operative aboard with orders to destroy the enterprise, threatening its workers and management.

A guest’s murder brings detective Andrew Jackson Crane to the Velvet Comet, where corporate interests demand discretion. Conflicting loyalties among the station’s managers and a computer’s probing attention complicate his search for a killer.

In 2047, Jeremiah the Bunk discovers that his ancestry and actions correspond to biblical signs of the Messiah. His confrontation with an underworld figure raises unsettling questions about prophecy, moral authority, and humanity’s future.

Self-styled Reverend Lucifer Jones recounts his travels across Africa, pursuing opportunities for profit while stumbling into danger. His dubious schemes bring encounters with unusual creatures, romantic complications, and the conventions of extravagant pulp adventure.

Religious crusader Thomas Gold campaigns to close the Velvet Comet. Meanwhile, alien employees Titania and Oberon attract a different intervention when outsiders decide to liberate them from work they themselves have no desire to abandon.

Twenty-three years after the Velvet Comet closes, writer Nate Page arrives to research a musical about its history. Alone aboard the station, he finds that its computer, Cupid, insists on exposing uncomfortable truths behind the project.

Bounty hunter Sebastian Nightingale Cain follows a lead on Santiago, the galaxy’s most elusive outlaw. Rival hunters, journalists, aliens, and frontier legends complicate his pursuit as the distinction between a wanted man and his reputation grows uncertain.

New York detective John Justin Mallory receives an unusual New Year’s Eve assignment from an elf: recover a stolen unicorn. The investigation leads into an alternate city whose magical inhabitants pose dangers his ordinary cases never prepared him for.

Alien art specialist Leonardo investigates portraits of the same mysterious woman painted across widely separated centuries. Rival collectors and thieves pursue the images, while the possibility of finding their model gives the assignment increasingly disturbing implications.

In the distant future, the last Maasai hires researcher Duncan Rojas to locate a legendary elephant’s tusks. Rojas follows their movement through centuries of records, uncovering stories of possession, conflict, and the meaning attached to ivory.

Koriba leads a Kikuyu community on a terraformed planetoid, seeking to preserve traditional customs against modern influence. A girl’s desire for knowledge challenges his authority, while outside administrators question the colony’s treatment of its inhabitants.

Human settlers arrive on Peponi, a planet rich in wildlife, and build a colonial society. As exploitation fuels demands for independence, Bukon Pepon attempts to unite the native peoples amid competing interests and conflicting accounts of progress.

Military lawyer Max Becker defends a starship captain who killed two crew members and claims they were alien impostors. When witnesses disappear and Becker becomes a target, his apparently hopeless case develops into a dangerous investigation.

Short fiction including Kirinyaga and For I Have Touched the Sky appears alongside nonfiction previously scattered through newspaper publications. Resnick introduces the selections with accounts of their origins, bringing his invented worlds and experiences as a writer together.

The thief known as the Mouse helps young Penelope Bailey evade governments and bounty hunters pursuing her extraordinary ability to foresee events. Their flight brings them into a frontier network where information and survival carry steep prices.

African travel journals accompany stories about imagined societies, including Manamouki, Song of a Dry River and Bully. Resnick connects encounters with the continent to fictional questions of cultural preservation, colonial influence and the promises made by would-be utopias.

Penelope Bailey has grown into a powerful seer whose influence protects an alien world from the Democracy. Agents sent to retrieve her compete with those ordered to kill her, turning her apparent refuge into contested territory.

Human missionaries reach Karimon, a jungle planet inhabited by reptilian people, and commercial interests follow. As outsiders manipulate local divisions and pursue resources, the planet’s inhabitants confront the costs of intervention and the possibility of resistance.

Short stories range across imagined futures, including an orbital community determined to preserve a precolonial African culture. Kirinyaga and For I Have Touched the Sky explore the tensions between inherited traditions and the changes that threaten their survival.

Lucifer Jones carries his questionable schemes into Asia, where encounters with a yeti, a dragon, and the Scorpion Lady disrupt his ambitions. Rigged races and improbable adventures keep the self-appointed reverend searching for his next opportunity.

Humans help develop Faligor, home to an alien people distinguished by golden fleece. Promises of prosperity become entangled with political ambition, authoritarian rule, and social upheaval as outside involvement transforms the planet’s institutions and daily life.

Nineteen science fiction mysteries explore crimes shaped by unfamiliar powers and technologies. Cases include a brokerage firm’s precognitive alien employee and a mind-reading performer, asking how investigators can solve wrongdoing when suspects possess abilities beyond ordinary human experience.

Penelope Bailey can shape the future, yet remains on an obscure planet while assassination attempts gather around her. The Iceman, who has survived previous encounters with her, searches for the purpose behind events that seem deliberately arranged.

Explorer Xavier William Lennox is mutilated after intruding on an alien ritual. Human officials give him a body resembling his attackers and send him back to negotiate mining access, beginning a series of transformations that challenge his identity.

An alien archaeological expedition visits Earth’s Olduvai Gorge to investigate vanished humanity. One researcher can experience history through objects, allowing the team to uncover sharply different episodes of human achievement, cruelty, ambition, and survival.

Private investigator Eli Paxton accepts a job to find a champion Weimaraner missing after Westminster. His search expands beyond Cincinnati into a trail involving a vanished cargo plane, distant destinations, murder, and attempts on his life.

Resnick’s short fiction revisits shared fictional settings, including Susan Calvin’s world and Riverworld. The collection brings together independent stories and a collaboration with Barry N. Malzberg, tracing his contributions to imagined universes built by multiple writers.

An assassination on Solio II creates work for the legendary Widowmaker, Jefferson Nighthawk, who has spent a century in cryogenic storage. A clone undertakes the hunt, with the payment intended to keep the original alive.

An older clone of Jefferson Nighthawk receives a mission to rescue a politician’s daughter and kill her revolutionary captor. Accompanied by unusual allies, he encounters questions about the kidnapping and the motives of his employer.

Video journalist Robert Markham seeks a doctor who disappeared years earlier and may hold an answer to a galactic plague. His expedition across Bushveld depends on guide Enoch Stone, whose obsession complicates an already dangerous journey.

Cured and awakened from cryogenic storage, Jefferson Nighthawk hopes for retirement with his companion Kinoshita. Enemies inherited from his clones and assassins eager to defeat the famous Widowmaker make a peaceful new life difficult to secure.

Humorous stories follow John Justin Mallory through an alternate New York, reinterpret Tonto’s familiar greeting and imagine America going up for auction. Thirty-seven tales place recognizable people and institutions in absurd situations shaped by science fiction and fantasy.

Mike Resnick and Nick DiChario collect eleven stories from their writing partnership, alongside pieces connected to their editorial work. Introductions explain how each collaboration developed, including the beginnings of their association through DiChario’s story The Winterberry.

Resnick examines fiction writing through early drafts and revisions of selected stories. By explaining specific changes, he shows how structure, characterization, and narrative choices develop during rewriting, offering readers a practical view of his working process.

Lucifer Jones travels through Europe, encountering a homemade man, a werewolf, a detective, and other unlikely figures. His pursuit of advantage repeatedly collides with supernatural dangers and familiar adventure stories reshaped by his unreliable, self-interested narration.

At a frontier tavern, celebrated adventurers trade stories whose accuracy is open to question. When war reaches their world, the people behind those extravagant accounts must confront circumstances demanding more than a convincing performance at the bar.

This collection brings together Resnick’s nonfiction about science-fiction fandom, including essays, reminiscences, speeches, introductions, and appreciations. Convention experiences, influential books, and fellow enthusiasts provide a record of the communities surrounding his life as a reader and writer.

This nonfiction collection gathers sixty-one essays and articles from Resnick's magazine work, online writing, and book introductions. The pieces bring together his commentary from several publishing venues, with an introduction by fellow science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer.

A century after Santiago's disappearance, Danny Briggs discovers a poem that reveals the outlaw's hidden role in defending the Frontier. Taking up the Rhymer's identity, he searches among dangerous adventurers for someone capable of becoming a new Santiago.

Jefferson Nighthawk wants to retire and tend his garden while his clones continue the Widowmaker's work. When two of those clones turn against each other, the original bounty hunter must confront the lethal consequences of his own legacy.

Edited by Mike Resnick, this anthology brings together six original novellas combining science fiction with detective noir. Investigators confront mysteries involving unfamiliar technologies and alien environments, carrying the suspicions and moral complications of crime fiction into the future.

In an alternate American Revolution, George Washington sends Daniel Boone west in search of allies and dragons. While Washington struggles against British forces, Boone's expedition explores whether the continent's extraordinary creatures can help change the course of the war.

Time traveler Mario Ravelli visits Renaissance Italy from the twenty-sixth century and befriends Leonardo da Vinci. His unusual alien companion becomes entangled with the artist's world, connecting a visitor from the future to the creation of a celebrated portrait.

Banished to an undistinguished warship on the edge of galactic conflict, officer Wilson Cole joins a crew of misfits and inexperienced recruits. His willingness to disobey orders produces results, but also brings him into conflict with military authority.

Branded mutineers, Wilson Cole and the Theodore Roosevelt's crew abandon the Republic and attempt piracy on the Inner Frontier. Their military scruples complicate the business of plunder, while new associates and dangerous rivals threaten their survival.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec befriends Dany, a starving young woman drawn into the world of the Moulin Rouge. As she falls under dancer La Goulue's influence, the artist struggles to protect her while wrestling with his own alcoholism.

Science fiction and fantasy stories question familiar assumptions about people, animals and artificial life. Tales of elephants on Neptune, an unexpected farm and the treatment of elderly people accompany accounts of distant worlds, with humor and difficult choices recurring throughout.

This anthology edited by Mike Resnick collects six original science fiction novellas built around police investigations. Alien biology, unusual habitats, and advanced technology complicate the cases, requiring detectives to solve crimes in worlds where familiar assumptions cannot be trusted.

Wilson Cole and his crew turn from unsuccessful piracy to mercenary work on the Inner Frontier. Rescue missions and dangerous contracts offer a new livelihood, but their partnership with the powerful Platinum Duke places loyalty and trust under pressure.

Salvador Dali finds inspiration in an alternate universe and an enigmatic young woman named Jinx. Historical personalities and speculative science enter a story that connects the painter's strange visions with the mysteries behind his artistic imagination.

Con man and self-appointed reverend Lucifer Jones continues his travels through South America, encountering bizarre islands, improbable creatures, and fellow swindlers. His schemes lead him into fresh trouble as he moves through a landscape of comic adventure.

A century after the Kikuyu utopia on Kirinyaga failed, the Maasai establish their own society on a terraformed planetoid. Having studied the earlier experiment's mistakes, the settlers face new questions about tradition, change, and the meaning of utopia.

Wilson Cole commands a small fleet on the Inner Frontier, where the Republic demands taxes and recruits without offering protection. An incident pushes him to declare war, forcing him to seek allies against an overwhelmingly larger military power.

On Halloween, John Justin Mallory learns that his partner's nephew has been bitten by a vampire during a European trip. The detective and his companions search their magical Manhattan for the responsible vampire before the young man's transformation is complete.

This collection reimagines Theodore Roosevelt in alternate histories and fantastic adventures. Across its stories, versions of the president confront vampires, pursue Jack the Ripper, and encounter other extraordinary circumstances that reshape the possibilities of his life.

Resnick returns to science fiction fandom through essays, anecdotes, speeches, convention reports, and appreciations. His interests in writers, collecting, and genre history provide the backdrop for personal reflections on the people and experiences surrounding his lifelong enthusiasm.

Hunters pursue fantastic creatures across strange worlds, from a unicorn in an alternate New York to elusive quarry on distant planets. The stories question who becomes predator or prey and what survives when human ambition turns living creatures into trophies.

Wilson Cole's rebel armada wages a guerrilla campaign against the Republic, whose immense navy dwarfs his forces. Reaching the capital on Deluros VIII becomes essential, while a new danger threatens to change the stakes for the entire galaxy.

Robert ole Buthelezi rises to lead a revived Zulu nation, claiming the destiny of its legendary king. As his spaceships conquer distant worlds, his ambition creates an empire whose greatest danger may be its own ruthless ruler.

Miniature dragon Fluffy disappears just before the Eastminster pet show, disrupting John Justin Mallory's Valentine's plans. With only one night to find the missing contestant, the detective searches a magical Manhattan alongside his unusual investigative companions.

Two novellas and five stories explore religion through encounters with God, Jesus and the Wandering Jew. A Messiah faces danger in the twenty-first century as Resnick’s speculative worlds test belief, divine authority and the consequences of challenging sacred assumptions.

In a transformed Tombstone powered by remarkable inventions, Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers prepare for a deadly confrontation. Their familiar enemies now include an undead Johnny Ringo, making the approaching gunfight stranger and more dangerous than expected.

Mike Resnick and Barry N. Malzberg discuss writing and publishing in dialogues originally appearing in the SFWA Bulletin. Their contrasting perspectives explore the practical business of science fiction, drawing on decades of experience within the field.

Dying of tuberculosis, Doc Holliday travels to Deadwood hoping to spend his remaining days gambling. When losses leave him short of money, he pursues the bounty on Billy the Kid and faces another young gunslinger.

Private investigator Jake Masters pursues justice in a galaxy where alien adversaries, dishonest clients, and betrayal complicate every case. This collection gathers his futuristic detective stories, including an additional adventure written specifically for the volume.

Resnick recounts travels through Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean in this nonfiction collection. Animal encounters, mishaps, and memorable experiences form a personal record of journeys abroad, combining the pleasures of exploration with the unexpected problems of travel.

More than seventy-five essays, editorials, interviews, introductions, and articles bring together Resnick's nonfiction from varied venues. Topics include science fiction awards, influential authors, art, and writing, offering his observations on the genre and its professional community.

Animal-centered short fiction includes The Last Dog, Blue and Barnaby in Exile. The collection ranges across Resnick’s portrayals of creatures, with Barnaby reworking the concerns of Flowers for Algernon through a different kind of central character.

John Justin Mallory investigates strange cases in an urban fantasy setting that mixes detective noir with supernatural comedy. This collection gathers eight previously published stories and a new title story, accompanied by Resnick's introduction to the character.

Geronimo recruits Doc Holliday to protect Theodore Roosevelt from enemies wielding supernatural powers. With a dangerous tribal adversary and the gunfighter John Wesley Hardin involved, Holliday must keep the future president alive through an unfamiliar kind of frontier conflict.

Dogs, robots and aliens share stories concerned with human experience, mortality and eternity. Familiar creatures and distant futures become ways to examine life and death, while tales including Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge consider humanity from unfamiliar perspectives.

Thirty Hugo-nominated stories range from Theodore Roosevelt’s imagined adventures to alien encounters and enduring attachments. Characters face loss, love and unexpected companions, including a Martian princess and Frankenstein’s assistant, as the collection follows Resnick’s short fiction across several decades.

Geronimo offers Doc Holliday another year of health in exchange for protecting rival paleontologists hunting dinosaur fossils. Their bitter feud complicates his task, while angered Comanches turn ancient remains into living threats on the frontier.

Hired to guard valuable yearlings in Lexington, private investigator Eli Paxton encounters an attack and a missing groom. Further disappearances and a record-breaking colt sale draw him into a conspiracy surrounding a financially troubled horse farm.

Sport meets science fiction and fantasy when a towering robot enters basketball, magic interferes with boxing and a racehorse encounters the devil. Other stories draw the Chicago Bears and Frankenstein into contests where ordinary sporting rules cannot contain the complications.

Eli Paxton accepts a wealthy widow's request to find her missing cat and its diamond collar. Connections to her murdered husband's criminal dealings turn the seemingly modest assignment into an investigation involving a Bolivian drug cartel.

Twenty-four stories use first-person narrators to explore science fiction, fantasy and humor. A Sherlock Holmes tale joins the collection, which brings together Resnick’s varied experiments with telling an imagined world’s events directly through the person experiencing them.

Colonel Nathan Pretorius leads an unconventional team behind enemy lines to replace General Michkag with a clone. The mission could alter the Democracy's war against the Traanskei Coalition, but success requires penetrating an exceptionally dangerous alien stronghold.

The Traanskei Coalition abducts Edgar Nmumba, the scientist whose work provides the only defense against its devastating Q-bomb. Nathan Pretorius and his team must locate a hidden prison in Antares and rescue him before entire planets become vulnerable.

This expanded nonfiction guide collects Resnick's Ask Bwana columns, answering questions about writing and the science fiction publishing business. Revised material addresses changes in the field, including electronic publishing, alongside advice drawn from his professional experience.

The clone planted as General Michkag has decided he enjoys commanding the enemy's forces and knows too much about humanity. Nathan Pretorius and his team must reach a heavily defended alien world to capture or kill him.

A security specialist accompanies a brilliant savant seeking ancient beings whose powers may resemble magic. Elsewhere, an alien pursues revenge against those same beings, bringing separate quests toward a collision over the mysteries of the Old Ones.

Expelled from one continent after another, Lucifer Jones crosses the Pacific toward Australia. Island encounters, con men, and a captain obsessed with the Puce Whale complicate his journey, ensuring that even escape provides opportunities for fresh trouble.

Continuing The Science Fiction Professional, this volume gathers additional Ask Bwana columns and four previously unpublished installments. Resnick answers questions from new and aspiring writers, offering practical guidance informed by his experience as an author and editor.

After gunmen attack a Manhattan fortune-teller's shop, Eddie Raven escapes into altered versions of familiar fictional worlds. A mysterious guide warns that he is being hunted, while repeated appearances of his girlfriend deepen the puzzle surrounding his journey.

Alien interrogator Keelarah questions human surveyor Forrest Brown to learn whether his species threatens her people. His comparable mental abilities challenge her methods, and their encounters complicate the distinction between captor and prisoner as unexpected understanding develops.

Harry the Book takes wagers in a Manhattan populated by wizards, werewolves and other supernatural customers. Boxing matches, dragon races and politics create opportunities for a bookmaker whose fantastic surroundings make even familiar gambling propositions unpredictable.

Eddie Raven continues fleeing dark forces alongside Lisa, whose identity changes with each extraordinary adventure. As she becomes figures from literature and history, he must discover who she really is while confronting a demon's puzzling claims of alliance.