Lincoln Michel Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Collections

Publication Order of Anthologies

Lincoln Michel is a published American author.

He was born in the state of Virginia in 1982. Today, the author lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is known for writing his debut full length novel The Body Scout and before that released his collection, Upright Beasts. He has also co-edited the anthologies Tiny Crimes and Gigantic Worlds, as well as Tiny Nightmares.

Lincoln Michel has had his work featured in publications such as Strange Horizons, Granta, Tin House, Lightspeed, McSweeney’s, the Pushcart Prize anthology, NOON, and The Paris Review, among others.

His novel The Body Scout was selected by The New York Times as one of the ten best science fiction books of 2021. It has also been selected as one of the 75 best sci-fi books of all time by Esquire. Its release earned it much critical acclaim as well, with Boing Boing deeming it a ‘modern cyberpunk classic’ and The New York Times deeming it ‘timeless and original’.

Michel’s essays and various criticism have also been featured in The Guardian, The Believer, The New York Times, and other places. He was an editor-in-chief for Electric Literature for three years and a co-founder and co-editor of Gigantic.

Lincoln Michel writes fiction and he also teaches it. He is an instructor at Sarah Lawrence College as well as Columbia University. He also runs Counter Craft, a newsletter, and won a Pushcart Prize in 2015.

Upright Beasts is the first collection of stories to come out from Lincoln Michel. Pick up a copy of this book and find out why people like Justin Taylor of Vice are saying that Lincoln Michel is one of the ‘greatest natural resources’ in contemporary literary culture.

This is a collection of various stories from Lincoln Michel. If you are a fan of short stories then you will enjoy this collection. Children attend school but the teachers have been missing for quite some time. A man is managing an apartment complex where there are many attempted suicides.

During a zombie attack, a couple does their best to work through their relationship. The title upright beasts refers to us, human beings that are walking upright that are able to do battle with some of the stranger impulses, even as the world is showing signs of falling all around us.

An intriguing read that you can finish all at once or pick stories to read from it at your leisure!

The Body Scout is the first novel to come out from Lincoln Michel. If you are a big fan of stories that fall into the science fiction, cyberpunk, dystopia vein of things, then you are going to want to check out this book.

The main character in this book is Kobo, but he’s having some problems that he’s dealing with at the moment. Things just are not going well at the moment. He knows that his cybernetics are out of date– by an entire decade. He is aware that he has twin sister loan sharks that are continually showing up to knock on his door and they will not be stopping anytime soon.

He also is putting in the work scouting for a baseball league that happens to be run by pharmaceutical companies, but that is quickly about to disappear into nothing. Kobo feels run down by his circumstances, and he starts thinking that things could not get worse than they are at the moment. Of course, that is always the time to knock on wood because usually that is when things get worse.

Kobo finds that things become even more difficult when his best friend from childhood ends up getting killed while on the field. J.J. Zunz is a slugger for the Monsanto Mets, and he’s killed at home plate. The only thing is that they have no idea who did it.

The one thing that Kobo does know is that he is going to try and get out there and find the killer. This mission takes him into places that he would not ordinarily go, moving into various dark corners, different condos, and more in a world that has experienced pandemics over and over and climate change and more.

This is a place where genetic editing as well as advanced drugs are able to let people attain any type of body that they desire. All provided that they have the funds available to do so, of course. However, even though Kobo is in a world with genetically modified CEOs, zoo-tech weapons, philosophical Neanderthals and more, he’s seeing a curve ball coming that he could have never anticipated before.

Will he be able to do what he set out to do and find a killer? Or is that far too much to ask in this complicated future? Read The Body Scout to find out!