BRUCE BOSTON
Speculative Fiction & Poetry
Stained Glass Rain at Amazon
The Guardener's Tale -- Details
The Nightmare Collection -- Details
Welcome!
Autobiographical Note

I was born of Catholic and Jewish heritage in Chicago in 1943. I
grew up in Southern California in an era of rock and roll, the Cold
War, and the Space Race. From 1961-2001, I lived in the San
Francisco Bay Area, attending and graduating from the University
of California, Berkeley, while active in the psychedelia and
political protests of the 1960s.

I've worked in a variety of occupations, including computer
programmer, college professor, technical writer, book designer,
movie projectionist, gardener, and furniture mover. I now live in
Ocala, Florida, with my wife, writer-artist
Marge Simon. In
addition to our solo work, Marge and I have collaborated on
poetry and short fiction.

My work has appeared in hundreds of publications, including
Asimov's SF, Amazing Stories, Realms of Fantasy, Strange
Horizons, Weird Tales, The Pedestal Magazine, Year's Best Fantasy
& Horror
, and the Nebula Awards Showcase, and received a
number of awards, most notably the Pushcart Prize, the
Asimov's
Readers' Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Rhysling Award,
and the
Grandmaster Award of the Science Fiction Poetry
Association. I hold the distinctions of having appeared in more
issues of
Asimov's SF, and Strange Horizons, than any other
author, and of coining the word "cybertext."

My work stretches from broad humor to literary surrealism, with
many stops along the way for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and
noir. I've published forty-five books and chapbooks, including the
novels
The Guardener's Tale and Stained Glass Rain. My best
stories are collected in
Masque of Dreams, my best poetry in
Sensuous Debris, Pitchblende, and Shades Fantastic.

For my thoughts on speculative poetry and writing, see John
Amen's
interview with me at The Pedestal Magazine and JoSelle
Vanderhooft's
interview with me at Strange Horizons. Also, my
article "The Failure of Genre Poetry" at The Fortean Bureau.

For a
retrospective essay on my poetry, see Gary William
Crawford's "Songs of the Stars" from
Calenture.

For detailed biographical information through 1998, see my essay
"Fifteen Explanations in Search of a Life" in
Contemporary
Authors Autobiography Series
, Volume 30, Gale Research, available
at many libraries.
New & Recent

Both Double Visions
and North Left of Earth
are currently on the
Bram Stoker Award Final Ballot

Cover Graphic
Scifaikuest
"Point of Intent"

Ninth Anniversay Issue
The Pedestal Magazine
speculative flash fiction
edited by Bruce Boston & Marge Simon

Humor at
Dog Oil
"Advice on Dealing with Your
Teenage Werewolf Son"

"Necropolis Burning"
New Myths
Second Anniversary Issue
dark poem

"Ancient Catch"
poem in
The Tangled Bank
anthology celebrating
150th anniversary
of Darwin's
Origin of the Species

three dark poems
Midnight Echo #3
Australian Horror Writers Association

"Wasp Light"
The Anthology of Dark Wisdom
surreal story
collaboration with Lee Ballentine

"Food for the Gods"
Paper Crow
speculative poem

"Surreal People"
anthropomorphic poem
at
Strange Horizons

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Vulture"
poem after Wallace Stevens
at
Farrago's Wainscot

"By the Dawn's Early Light"
speculative fiction at
Atomjack
Bibliography         Contact        Publications Online
Bruce Boston Entry at Wikipedia
The Guardener's Tale, Spanish edition at Amazon
Recent Books

Dark Matters
new poetry collection
forthcoming from
Bad Moon Books
June 2010

Best-Of Fiction Collection
Masque of Dreams
trade paper edition from Wildside Press
Request review copy

North Left of Earth
sf/speculative poetry collection
from Sam's Dot Publishing

Double Visions
collaborative poetry collection
from Dark Regions Press

The Nightmare Collection
Poetry Dark, Satiric, Surreal
Sample Poems and Illustrations
Bram Stoker Award Winner

Novel
The Guardener's Tale,
from Sam's Dot Publishing
Bram Stoker Award Finalist
Prometheus Award Nominee

Spanish edition of
The Guardener's Tale
from La Factoria de Ideas
as El Guardian de Almas

Flash Fiction Collection:
Flashing the Dark
from Sam's Dot Publishing
Double Visions -- Details
North Left of Earth -- details
Masque of Dreams -- details