"Go find your own egg. This one's about to hatch."

Original SF and Fantasy

Wyrldmaker. (Pocket Books, 1981; Avon 1988) novel

Talking Man (Arbor house, 1986; Avon 1987) novel

Fire on the Mountain (Arbor House, 1988; Avon 1990) novel

Voyage to the Red Planet (Morrow, 1990; Avon 1991) novel

Bears Discover Fire (Tor, 1993; Orb, 1995) collection

Pirates of the Universe (Tor, 1996; Orb, 1997) novel

Media Tie-ins

Johnny Mnemonic (Pocket Books, 1995) novelization of a screenplay by William Gibson

Virtuosity (Pocket Books, 1995) novelization of a screenplay by Eric Bernt

"Jonny Quest" adventures: Demon of the Deep, Peril in the Peaks, Attack of the Evil Cyber-God (HarperPrism, 1997); kids' books, all written as "Brad Quentin"

NASCAR "Pole Position" books: Rolling Thunder, In the Groove, Race Ready, Speed Demon, Hammer Down, Spin Out (HarperPrism, 1998-99); kids' books, all written by "T.B. Calhoun" (the last three with Ned Webb)

The Fifth Element (HarperPrism, 1997) novelization of a screenplay by Luc Besson

Alien Resurrection (HarperPrism, 1997) Digest novelization of a screenplay by Joss Whedon; his name and mine both removed by contract

The X Files: Miracle Man (Harper Collins, not yet published) YA novelization from TV script by Howard Gordon and Chris Carter

Radio Drama

The Flat Edge of the Earth (Sci-Fi Channel, Seeing Ear Theater, 1998) With Brian Smith

Orson the Alien (Sci-Fi Channel, Seeing Ear Theater, 1998) With George Zarr and Brian Smith

Non Fiction

Nat Turner: Slave Revolt Leader (Chelsea House, 1988; Melrose Square, 1989) YA biography

Co-Author

Car Talk with Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers (Dell, 1991) With NPR's Tom and Ray Magliozzi

A Green River Girlhood (Green River Press, 1991; McDowell Publications, Utica, Ky, 1991) With Elizabeth Ballantine Johnson: an oral history of TB's aunt and the Ballantines of Rumsey and Calhoun, Ky.

Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (Bantam, 1997) by Walter M Miller Jr. TB completed final 60 pp of book after Miller's death; no cover credit

Short Fiction (first publication only)

--Collected in Bears

Bears Discover Fire (Asimov's 8/90)

The Two Janets (Asimov's 11/90)

They're Made Out of Meat (Omni 4/91)

Over Flat Mountain (Omni 6/90)

Press Ann (Asimov's 8/91)

The Coon Suit (F&SF 5/91)

George (no magazine pub; Bears, 93)

Next (F&SF 5/92)

Necronauts (Playboy 7/93)

Are There Any Questions? (Interzone 8/92)

Two Guys from the Future (Omni 8/92)

The Toxic Donut (SF Age 6/93)

Canción Auténtica de Old Earth (F&SF l0/92)

The Message (Asimov's 10/93)

England Underway (Omni 7/93)

By Permit Only (Interzone 7/93)

The Shadow Knows (Asimov's 9/93)

Partial People (F&SF 1/94)

Carl's Lawn and Garden (Omni 1/92)

--Wilson Wu Stories

The Hole in the Hole (Asimov's 2/94)

The Edge of the Universe (Asimov's 8/96)

Get Me to the Church on Time (Asimov's 5/98)

--Other Stories

There Are No Dead (Asimov's 1/95)

10:07:24 (Absolute Magnitude, Winter 95)

Tell Them They Are All Full Of Shit And They Should Fuck Off (Crank, Nov 96?)

An Office Romance (Playboy, 2/97)

The Joe Show (Playboy 8/94)

In the Upper Room (Playboy, 5/96)

Dead Man's Curve (Asimov's, 6/94)

The Player (F&SF 10/97)

Incident at Oak Ridge (F&SF 7/98) teleplay

First Fire (SF Age 9/98)

Smoother (F&SF 1/99)

macs (F&SF 10/99)

--Obscure and Oddball

First Two Kids on Mars (Kicks, Spring 93); YA, kid's mag.

"Hawk" Debate Heats Up (Linewaiter's Gazette, 2/96); Satire for Brooklyn food coop newsletter.

Seven Surefire Ways to Beat Writer's Block and How I Made Them Work for Me! (SFWA Bulletin, Spring 96); How-not-to.

The Pleasantville Monster Project (NY Review of SF, November 99); screenplay fragment.

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