BLUMLEIN, Michael

BLUMLEIN, Michael
(1948-)
   US medical doctor and writer whose output in the latter capacity, though still restricted to two published books, has had considerable impact on the field. His first published story was "Tissue Ablation and Variant Regeneration: A Case Report" for Interzone in 1984. This tale remains one of the most astonishingly savage political assaults ever published. The target is Ronald Reagan, whose living body is eviscerated without anaesthetic by a team of doctors, partly to punish him for the evils he has allowed to flourish in the world and partly to make amends for those evils through the biologically engineered growth and transformation of the ablated tissues into foodstuffs and other goods ultimately derived from the flesh, which are then sent to the impoverished of the Earth. "Tissue Ablation" and other remarkable tales including "The Brains of Rats" (1986) and "The Wet Suit" (1989) were assembled as The Brains of Rats (coll 1989), a publication that demonstrates the very considerable thematic and stylistic range of modern sf, and shows how very far from reassuring it can be.MB's only published novel, The Movement of Mountains (1987), is told in a more immediately accessible style than some of his short FABULATIONS, though at moments the narrative form of the text - related by a doctor in the form of a confessional memoir - and some of the ornate chill of the narrator's mind are reminiscent of the darker tales of Gene WOLFE. The tale begins in a familiar, congested NEAR FUTURE California, moves to a colony planet mined by "mountainous", biologically engineered, short-lived slaves - whom the doctor helps liberate while at the same time analysing the plague which has killed his lover - and finally returns to Earth, where the doctor, having discovered that the plague has the effect of transforming humans into gestalt configurations, disseminates it in secret in order to bring down a repressive government. X,Y (1993) is horror.At his best, MB writes tales in which, with an air of remote sang-froid, he makes unrelenting assaults on public issues (and figures). He writes as though his aesthetic demands justice; as though, in other words, beauty demands truth.
   JC
   See also: INTERZONE; MEDICINE.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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