The Alan Brennert Bibliography

Comics:

UNKNOWN WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION #4, 1975
Interview with A.E. Van Vogt

UNKNOWN WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION #5, Sept 1975
Interview with Larry Niven

UNKNOWN WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION SPECIAL #1, 1976
Interview with Theodore Sturgeon

WONDER WOMAN Vol. 1, # 231 and 232
This War Has Been Cancelled
A Duel of Gods
Scripted by Marty Pasko, based on a story by Alan Brennert
A 2 part story featuring Wonder Woman, along with the JSA, against an Egyptian villainess named Osira.

DETECTIVE COMICS #500 (Mar 1981)
To Kill a Legend
_{reprinted in THE GREATEST BATMAN STORIES EVER TOLD}
A tale of the Batman of Earth-1. The Phantom Stranger, sensing Bruce Wayne's continuing grief over the deaths of his parents, grants him the chance to travel to another alternate world: a world twenty years younger than our own, where Bruce Wayne is still a boy, where Thomas and Martha Wayne have not yet died ... and where he might have a chance to save them.

STAR TREK #12 (March 1981)
Unfinished Business
Plot only; script by Martin Pasko

BRAVE AND THE BOLD #178 (Sep 1981) [Batman & The Creeper]
Paperchase
_{reprinted in THE GREATEST TEAM-UP STORIES EVER TOLD}

BRAVE AND THE BOLD #181 (Dec 1981) [Batman & Hawk and Dove]
Time, See What's Become of Me...
A tale of the now-adult Hawk and Dove: two heroes who had stuck to their violent/non-violent personae, while the world changed around them.

BRAVE AND THE BOLD #182 (Jan 1982) [Batman & Earth-2 Robin & Batwoman]
Interlude on Earth-Two

This was my first encounter with Alan Brennert, and it still remains one of my favourites. But I'll just let Mark Cannon speak on this one:

"This is my personal favourite of Alan Brennert's Batman stories and one of the most unsettling Batman stories I've read. It's probably the only Earth 1/Earth 2 which ever touched upon just how damn unnerving it would be to know that there were doppelgangers of yourself - especially ones who have died. Thoughout the story, the Earth 2 Robin and Batwoman are unsettled by the presence of the double of their dead friend , Batman is similarly unsettled by Batwoman, whose Earth 1 counterpart is dead, Robin can't help but feel resentful of Batman's presence, and Batman feels terribly out of place and spooked by the whole thing.

The story also has one of the most touching and heart wrenching Batman scenes ever, as Batwoman confesses that she had loved Earth 2's Batman, but that one day his whole attitude and approach to her had changed, and she knew, without ever actually being told, that he must have gotten married in his civilian identity.

It's interesting to note that several of Alan's Batman stories utilised parallel worlds. Next time somebody claims that the old Multiverse was nothing but a confusing mess, cite these to them. They couldn't have been done in the current DC Universe, and I refuse to believe that they would have the same impact if done as 'Elseworlds'."

BRAVE AND THE BOLD #197 (Apr 1983) [Earth-2 Batman & Catwoman]
The Autobiography of Bruce Wayne
_{reprinted in THE GREATEST BATMAN STORIES EVER TOLD}
A tale of the Batman of Earth-2, and Selina Kyle, the woman he eventually married, and how they fell in love. This, to me, is the tale that defined Selina Kyle's role in the life of the Batman of Earth-2.

DAREDEVIL #192 (Mar 1983)
Promises
A tale of Daredevil, the Kingpin and Ben Urich. It's a one-shot tale which comes just after Frank Miller's incredible run on this title, but which managed to, in a single panel, re-define the relationship between our hero and villain.

DAREDEVIL #195 (June 1983)
Betrayal
Plot suggestion only; this was written by Denny O'Neil.

CHRISTMAS WITH THE SUPER-HEROES #2 (1989)
Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot
A disheartened Deadman is taught a lesson on Christmas Eve, by a mysterious stranger.

DETECTIVE #600 (July 1989)
A one-page tribute to the Batman

SECRET ORIGINS #50 (Aug 1990)
Unfinished Business
The origins of both Black Canaries retold, along with a short history of the JSA in the post-war years. Cameos galore, including the JSA, Hal (Green Lantern) Jordan, Oliver (Green Arrow) Queen and the Spectre.

BATMAN: HOLY TERROR (1991)
An Elseworlds featuring Bruce Wayne as a priest, who takes on the mantle of the Bat to avenge his parents.

BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHTS #10 (October 2000)
Guardian
A tale of Gotham's first guardian, the Emerald Knight, passing the mantle of the city's protector to the Dark Knight.

A. BOOKS

1. City of Masques
   • First Edition: Chicago: Playboy Press, 1978 $1.75
2. Kindred Spirits
   • First Edition: New York: Tor Books, 1984 $3.50
   • Swedish Hardcover Edition Som en Hägring Sweden: Wahlströms, 1986
   • Second American paperback edition: New York, Tor Books, Dec 1992. $4.99
   • Third American edition: Forge Books, 1999. Trade paper, $13.95
3. Time and Chance
   • First Edition: New York: Tor Books, 1990. $17.95
   • First paperback Edition: New York, Tor Books, 1990. $4.95
     (Issued with three variant covers: black with silver-blue foil lettering, white with green foil lettering, red with gold foil lettering)
     First printing: December [November] 1990
     Second printing: November 1990
     Third printing: November 1990
     
   • French edition
     L'échange Paris, Denoël, 1991. 125 francs. Trade paper.

4. Her Pilgrim Soul and Other Stories
   • First edition: New York, Tor Books, 1990. $17.95
   • Paperback edition: Tor Books, 1992. $3.99
     Contents:
     
     • Sea Change
     • Queen of the Magic Kingdom
     • Healer
     • Jamie's Smile
     • Steel
     • The Third Sex
     • Voices in the Earth
     • Her Pilgrim Soul
5. Ma Qui and Other Phantoms (with series Authors Choice Monthly, issue 17)
   • Hardcover Edition: Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Press, 1991. $25.00
     Limited Edition of 300 signed and numbered copies
   • Leather-bound Hardcover Edition: Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Press, 1991. $50.00
     Limited Edition of 50 signed and numbered copies
   • "Staff" Edition: Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Press, 1991.
     Limited Edition of 10 signed and numbered copies bound in red leather
   • Trade paperback Edition: Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Press, 1991. $4.95
     Contents:
     • Introduction
     • Ma Qui
     • Ghost Story
     • Stage Whisper
     • Futures
6. Weird Romance: Two One-Act Musicals of Speculative Fiction
   Music by Alan Menken. Lyrics by David Spencer.
   • "The Girl who was Plugged In" Book by Alan Brennert and David Spencer, based on the story by James Tiptree Jr.
   • "Her Pilgrim Soul" Book by Alan Brennert, based on his original story
   1. First Edition (trade paper): New York, Samuel French Inc, 1993. $5.95
      First printing: July 1993
      Second printing: (revised cover) 1993
7. Moloka'i
   
   • First printing: October 2003.
     
8. Honolulu
   
   • Due March 2009.
     Click on the above link for more information on this forthcoming title.
     

B. SHORT FICTION

1. Nostalgia Tripping
   
   a. Infinity Five, ed. Robert Hoskins (New York: Lancer Books, 1973, 0-447-75477-095, $0.95, pb)
2. The Stars Have All Gone Out
   
   1. Vertex Magazine, October 1973
   2. Vertex-1: Volume One/Vertex Magazine/Issues 1-6/1973 Los Angeles, Mankind Publishing Company, 1974. Hardcover compilation, two states:
      • Limited Collector's Edition limited to 1000 copies. Gold foil edge and imprint
      • Educator and Library Edition. Silver imprint
3. Touchplate
   
   1. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1974 (ed: Ben Bova )
4. A Winter Memory
   
   1. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1974. (ed: Edward L. Ferman)
   2. Hayakawa SF-Magazine no. 211, 6/76. (Translator: Hisashi Asakura)
   3. Un Souvenir d'hiver. Fiction no. 331, Juillet/Août 1982. Translator: Jean-Pierre Galante.
5. In This Image
   
   1. Fellowship of the Stars: Nine Science Fiction Stories, ed. Terry Carr
      • New York, Simon & Schuster, 1974. Hardcover
      • New York, Simon & Schuster, 1974. Science Fiction Book Club Hardcover edition
6. All The Charms of Sycorax
   
   1. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, July 1975 (ed: Ben Bova )
7. The Second Soul
   
   1. Galaxy, March 1976 (ed: James Baen)
   2. [Teleplay Adaptation] C58.
8. Jamie's Smile
   
   1. The Ides of Tomorrow: Original Science Fiction Tales of Horror, ed. Terry Carr
      • Boston, Little, Brown, 1976 (0316129704, hc)
      • La Sonrisa de Jamie. Los idus del mañana Barcelona, Adiax, 1982. Trade paper
   2. Her Pilgrim Soul and Other Stories
9. Crown of Thorns
   
   1. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, February 1977 (ed: Ben Bova )
10. Brian in the Dreaming Seat
    
    1. Clarion SF, ed. Kate Wilhelm (New York, Berkley Books, 1977)
11. Ghost Story
    
    1. Skyghosts and Dusk-Devils. Future Pastimes, ed. Scott Edelstein (Nashville, Aurora Publishers, 1977)
    2. Ma Qui and Other Phantoms
    3. 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg and Martin H. Greenberg
       • New York, Barnes & Noble Books, 1993, Hardcover
       • New York, Barnes & Noble Books, 1995, Trade Paper
12. Steel
    
    1. Cobblestone, Summer 1977
    2. Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander.
       • New York, Taplinger, 1980. Hardcover.
       • Kotetsu no otoko [Man of Steel] Shoto shoto SF no seizui. Tokyo, Kodansha, 1983. Trade paper
       • Schneller als eine Gewehrkugel [Faster than a Bullet] Feuerwerk der SF. Translator: Tony Westermayr
       • Munich: Goldmann Verlag, 1984, paperback.
       • Munich: Bertelsmann Book Club, 1984.
       • New York, DAW Books, 1992, paperback
    3. Her Pilgrim Soul and Other Stories
    4. Stal. Nova Fantastyka, Pazdziernik 1993. Translator: Pawel Ziemkiewicz.
    5. 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg and Martin H. Greenberg
       • New York, Barnes & Noble Books, 1996 (0-76070-142-3, hc)
13. Mirror Watch
    
    1. Against Tomorrow, ed. Robert Hoskins (New York, Fawcett Crest Books, 1979)
14. Stage Whisper
    
    1. New Voices III: The Campbell Award Nominees, ed. George R.R. Martin (New York, Berkley Books, 1980)
    2. Ma Qui and Other Phantoms
15. Queen of the Magic Kingdom
    
    1. New Voices III: The Campbell Award Nominees, ed. George R.R. Martin (New York, Berkley Books, 1980)
    2. Her Pilgrim Soul and Other Stories
    3. Die Königin von Disneyland [The Queen of Disneyland]. Die Strasse Nach Candarei, ed. Wolfgang Jeschke (Munich, Heyne Wilhelm Verlag, 1995) Translator: Ingrid Herrmann.
16. Voices in the Earth
    
    1. [teleplay] C34
    2. [short story] Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Magazine, October 1987 (ed: Tappan King)
    3. Her Pilgrim Soul and Other Stories
    4. Stimmen in Der Erde. Lenins Zahn und Stalins Tränen, ed. Wolfgang Jeschke (Munich, Heyne Wilhelm Verlag, 1995) Translator: Ralph Tegtmeier.
17. Healer
    
    1. [teleplay] C23
    2. [novelette] The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1989. (ed: Edward L. Ferman)
    3. Her Pilgrim Soul and Other Stories
    4. New Stories from the Twilight Zone, ed. Martin H. Greenberg
       • New York, Avon Books, 1991. Trade paper
       • London, Orbit Books, 1992. Trade paper
       • London, Warner Books, 1993. Mass market
       • Parantaja. Kauhujen Kirja 8. Finland, Book Studio Oy, 1996
       • The New Twilight Zone: 21 Tales by the Greatest Sci-Fi and Dark Fantasy Writers of our Time (New York, MJF Books, 1996, Hardcover)
18. The Third Sex
    
    1. Pulphouse, Issue Three, Spring 1989, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Eugene, OR, Pulphouse Publishing, 1989)
       • Numbered Trade Edition Limited to 1000 copies. There were also 25 unnumbered trade Publishers Copies (PC) printed.
       • Signed and numbered leatherbound edition in slipcase, limited to 250 copies. There were also 25 unnumbered leatherbound Publishers Copies (PC) printed.
       • "Staff" edition bound in red leather, limited to 10 copies
    2. The Year's Best Science Fiction, Seventh Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
       • New York, St. Martin's Press, 1990, Hardcover (0-312-04451-8)
       • New York, St. Martin's Press, 1990, Trade paper (0-312-04452-6)
       • New York, St. Martin's Press, 1990, Trade paper edition offered through the Book of the Month Club and Quality Paperback Club
       • Best New SF 4. London, Robinson, 1990 (British Trade Paper Edition)
       • Il terzo sesso. Stelle di neutroni. Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1992. Translator Pierluigi D'Oro. Hardcover
       • Il terzo sesso. Urania Presenta Millemondi. Inverno 1995 [Numero 5, Novembre 1995]
    3. Her Pilgrim Soul and Other Stories
    4. The Best of Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch
       • New York, St. Martin's Press, 1991, Hardcover
       • New York, St. Martin's Press, 1992, Hardcover edition issued by the Science Fiction Book Club
       • New York, St. Martin's Press, 1992, Trade paper
    5. Das Dritte Geschlecht. Die Säumige Zeitmaschine, ed. Wolfgang Jeschke Munich, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1997. Translator: Ralph Tegtmeier
19. Sea Change
    
    1. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1990 (ed: Edward L. Ferman)
    2. Her Pilgrim Soul and Other Stories
20. Her Pilgrim Soul
    
    1. [teleplay] C27 (broadcast on CBS television, December 13, 1985.)
    2. [published teleplay] Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Magazine, December 1986 (ed: Tappan King)
    3. [novella] Her Pilgrim Soul and Other Stories
    4. [musical stage production] D2
    5. Die Pilgerseele in Dir [The Pilgrim Soul in You] Heyne Science Fiction Jahresband 1994, ed. Wolfgang Jeschke (Munich, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1994). Translator: Ralph Tegtmeier
    6. [Excerpt] Soul: An Archaeology: Readings from Socrates to Ray Charles, ed. Phil Cousineau
       • San Francisco, Harper Collins, 1994. Hardcover
       • San Francisco, Harper Collins, 1995. Trade paper
       • London, Thorson, 1995. Trade paper
    7. Jej Dusza Pielgrzymia. Nowa Fantastyka, Grudzien, December 1998 Translator: Anna Scibior-Gakewska
21. Ma Qui
    [ Nebula Award Winner, 1991, Best Short Story ]
    [Second place, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award ]
    
    1. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1991 (ed: Edward L. Ferman)
    2. Ma Qui and Other Phantoms
    3. Best New Horror 3, ed. Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell
       • New York, Carroll & Graf, 1992. Hardcover
       • London, Robinson, 1992. Trade paper
       • New York, Carroll & Graf, 1994. Trade paper
    4. The Year's Best Horror Stories: XX, ed. by Karl Edward Wagner (New York, DAW Books, 1992)
    5. Laggiù [Below] Urania Presenta Millemondi, Inverno 1992 Translator: Guiliano Acunzoli
    6. Die Verlorene Seele [The Lost Soul ] Cyberella: Eine Auswahl der besten Erzählungen aus The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. by Ronald M. Hahn (Munich, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1992). Translator: Thomas Ziegler
    7. The Giant Book of Best New Horror, ed. by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell (London, Magpie Books, 1993) British Book Club Edition. Trade paper
    8. Nowa Fantastyka, Marzec 1993. Translator: Arkadiudsz Nakoniecznik
    9. Nebula Awards 27: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for the Year, ed. James Morrow
       • New York, Harcourt Brace, 1993. Hardcover (0-15-164935-9)
       • New York, Harcourt Brace, 1993. Trade paper (0-15-665471-1, $12.95)
    10. Das Grosse Horror Lesebuch III, ed. Robert Vito (Munich: Goldmann Verlag, 1994). Trade paper. Translator: Klaus Fröba
    11. The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: A 45th Anniversary Anthology ed. Edward L. Freman and Kristine Kathryn Rusch (New York, St. Martin's Press, 1994) (0-312-11246-7, $23.95)
    12. Ténèbres No. 4, Octobre/Novembre/Decembre Translator: Benoit Domis
22. Futures
    
    1. Ma Qui and Other Phantoms
23. Cradle
    
    1. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1995 (ed: Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
    2. 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz and Martin H. Greenberg
       • New York, Barnes & Noble Books, 1995, Hardcover (1-56619-558-6, $7.98)
       • New York, Barnes & Noble Books, 1996, Trade paper
    3. The Best New Horror, Volume Seven, ed. Stephen Jones
       • London, Robinson/Raven Books, 1996. Trade Paper
       • The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Volume Seven. New York, Carroll & Graf, 1996. Trade Paper
24. The Man Who Loved The Sea
    
    1. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1995 (ed: Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
    2. L'uomo che avama il mare. Urania Presenta Millemondi, Autumno, 1996 [Numero 8, September 1996]. Translator: Riccardo Valla.
    3. Treasures of Fantasy, ed. Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
       • New York, Harper Collins, 1997. Trade paper.
       • New York, Harper Collins, 1999. Mass market paperback.
25. The Refuge
    
    1. [novella] The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1996 (ed: Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
    2. [teleplay] C60
    3. Das Refugium. Heyne Science Fiction Jahresband 1999, ed: Wolfgang Jeschke Munich, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1999. Translator: Olaf Schröter.
26. Fantasies
    
    1. Fear the Fever, ed. Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett (New York, Pocket Books, 1996)(0-671-53765-2, $5.99, pb)
27. Echoes
    [ Nominee, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award ]
    1. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1997 (ed: Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
       • Print version. Mercury Press, as above.
       • Electronic version. Peanut Press, 2000.
    2. Echi. L'uomo duplicato, ed. Piergiorgio Nicolazzini (Milan, Editrice Nord, 1997) Hardcover. Translator: Nicola Fantini.
    3. The Year's Best Science Fiction, Fifteenth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
       • St. Martin's Press, 1998, Hardcover
       • St. Martin's Press, 1998, Trade paper
       • St. Martin's Press, 1998, Hardcover edition issued by the Science Fiction Book Club
       • The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction, 11th Annual Collection. London, Robinson, 1998
    4. Echos. DAS PROUST-SYNDROM, ed. Wolfgang Jeschke (Munich: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1999) Translator: Olaf Schroter. Nominated for 1999 Kurd Lasswitz Prize for Best Foreign Story
28. The White City
    
    1. Future Crimes (ed: Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers) New York, DAW Books, 1999)
    2. Biale Miasto, Nowa Fantastyka, Wrzesien 1999)

Essays/Articles:

1. Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #4 (June 1975)
   
   • Interview with A.E. Van Vogt, and introduction to Interview
2. Other Voices (1987)
   
   • Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, October 1987
          Auth/Ed: Tappan King [1987, TZ Publications, Inc., $2.50]
3. Introduction (1991)
   
   • Author's Choice Monthly #17 '91
4. Introduction: Two Years in the Twilight Zone (1991)
   
   • New Stories from the Twilight Zone, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Avon, 1991

Teleplays:

(The New Adventures of) WONDER WOMAN

BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY

DARKROOM

FANTASY ISLAND

SIMON AND SIMON

THE MISSISSIPPI

LEGMEN

THE TWILIGHT ZONE

CHINA BEACH

L.A. LAW

THE OUTER LIMITS

Much thanks to Jerry Boyajian, Greg Spira, Brian Bailie, Steven Rowe and a cast of hundreds on Usenet, who helped me assemble this list.

_{Back from Earth-2 <sniff> ...}