Phyllis Gotlieb Books in Order

After an atomic disaster, the isolated survivors of Sorrel Park struggle with abandonment and a feared new generation of children. Their extraordinary mental powers threaten to overturn the boundary separating the damaged community from the outside world.

An Auschwitz survivor struggles with the continuing effects of the Holocaust years after the war. Set against Jewish life in Canada, the novel examines how a life shaped by devastation might find emotional renewal.

These long poems bring elements of fantasy into writing intended for performance. Gotlieb moves between poetry and imagined worlds, using the spoken possibilities of verse to explore territory that also informs her speculative fiction.

On a radioactive planet, intelligent robots rebel against the humans who created them, leaving survivors and mutants fighting for control. A boy able to communicate with machines may hold the key to ending the conflict on Dahlgren’s World.

Prandra and Khreng travel together through time and across the Galactic Federation, encountering dangerous and unfamiliar worlds. Their journeys even bring them to Earth, where their arrival causes alarm among the inhabitants they encounter.

Federation investigator Duncan Kinnear examines why a seemingly peaceful alien world has become classified. With telepathic cats, a tarot reader, and rumors of human mutants as guides, he seeks the hidden danger threatening the planet’s inhabitants.

This collection combines science fiction stories with poetry. In the title novella, two large crimson alien cats arrive unexpectedly in a nineteenth-century Polish village, bringing an encounter between unfamiliar beings and a very human world.

After visiting alien cats are massacred in Earth's Grand Canyon, survivors Bren and Etrem seek those responsible. Help from a telepath and a Pueblo shaman draws them into a case complicated by an unpredictable energy being.

A group of teenagers finds itself stranded on a planet inhabited by mutants, genetically engineered beings, and uncontrolled robots. Their struggle to survive draws them into the continuing consequences of scientific experiments on the dangerous world introduced in O Master Caliban!

Stories of aliens and distant worlds examine recognizably human fears and desires. The title tale concerns discovery and betrayal on another planet, while another story follows an alien child born among human colonists.

An alien judge discovers an enslaved amphibious woman displayed outside a brothel, exposing a conspiracy that stretches across worlds. Her investigation confronts powerful corporations, exploitation, and murder in a society where bodies have become commodities.

A sequence of murders targets those opposing a powerful interstellar family corporation. Across worlds inhabited by humans and varied alien species, the struggle against its influence reveals the dangers facing anyone who threatens the organization’s control.

Following the collapse of a criminal corporation, disturbed alien telepaths appear to be planning deadly crimes. A displaced gladiator, a psychic woman, and an alien scholar become entangled in efforts to determine who is manipulating the aftermath.

This selection of Phyllis Gotlieb’s poetry brings verbal play and sharp observation to experiences of love, grief, horror, and instability. Historical commentary and wry humor run through poems that explore the expressive possibilities of everyday language.

On a dark planet, mutations have given men unstable teleportation abilities while reducing women to reproductive roles. Alien resource extraction deepens the population’s suffering, raising the question of whether the Galactic Federation can intervene before the society is destroyed.

Phyllis Gotlieb’s love poems and occasional verses for her husband Kelly are gathered in this collection. Written around their personal relationship, the poems offer a more intimate view of the writer through expressions composed for a particular recipient.