Lawrence M. Schoen

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books
  • First Book:
    May 2007
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • Prime Codex

    Prime Codex highlights the new directions in fiction that the Codex Writers Group has collectively begun to forge. A vibrant community of "neo-pro" writers of speculative fiction: writers on the hungry edge of their careers, Codex Writers include Wri...

  • Alembical

    Small Press newcomer, Paper Golem, embarks on an exciting, new annual series, a celebration of the novella, long touted as the "ideal length" in speculative fiction. Subtitled "A Distillation of Four Novellas," ALEMBICAL brings together four of the f...

  • Buffalito Destiny

    BOOKLIST: "Makes for a fun read, especially given such a fantastic cast of characters." "BUFFALITO DESTINY is a charming, cheerfully improbable, and delightfully entertaining tale." - Jay Lake, author of ESCAPEMENT and GREEN. "Artfully drawn, extreme...

  • Sweet Potato Pie and Other Surrealities

    Hugo-nominated Lawrence M. Schoen, long known for his light and humorous tales of science fiction, steps away from aliens and other worlds to explore the fantastic, giving a twist to some well-worn tropes, and conjuring up fresh surrealities of poetr...

  • Buffalito Contingency

    Publishers Weekly: "Fans of old-fashioned SF will love this fast-paced, chaotic, and good-natured adventure full of semi-farcical humor and pleasantly believable aliens." Conroy has left Earth far behind and taken his hypnosis act beyond Human Space....

  • Cucurbital 2

    CUCURBITAL 2 is not simply speculative fiction; it's a peek into the writing process itself. Writers are always asked two questions: "where do you get the idea for your story?" and "how do you go from idea to finished work?" This anthology offers ins...

  • Buffalito Buffet

    PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: Schoen is clearly in his element and there's a pleasant preposterousness to the whole thing, like a series of good-natured tall tales... For years, Lawrence M. Schoen has been producing stories about the ever more popular Amazi...

  • Bufflito Destiny

  • Cucurbital 3

    CUCURBITAL 3 continues the series of of mini-anthologies that provide a peek into the writing process itself. Authors are always asked two questions: "where do you get the idea for your story?" and "how do you go from idea to finished work?" This ser...



  • Bidding the Walrus

    Walrus Gideon, head of his own custom cybernetics company is barely getting by. He can undercut his competition on contract bids, but only a few at a time. After all, there’s only so much work a two-man operation can take on. That’s fine though, ...

  • The Game of Leaf and Smile

    Kjest is a young demon, a Pain Lord whose only talent is winning tourneys and taking his opponents power as his own. A demonic lottery forces Zhole, eldest of the Lords of Disease, from the peace and quiet of his retirement to answer the upstart’s ...

  • Mars Needs Baby Seals

  • The Moment

    In 2010 "The Moment" was nominated for the Hugo Award i the Best Short Story category. Over the course of millions of years, a wide range of alien intelligences visit the mark of a footprint on the moon, ponder its significance, getting it wrong unti...

  • Pidgin

    Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An alien goes into a store, walks up to the clerk, and asks to buy some fruit. It makes the request again and again, each time claiming to speak in a different terrestrial language. Except, the languages are...

  • The Sky's The Limit

    My homage to the writing of Damon Runyon, a tale of the perfect "floating" high-stakes card game (one that the police cannot raid) because it takes place onboard an airship. Featuring such colorful characters as Joey Morlock, Beans MacAllister, Manho...

  • Thinking

    Standardized tests, it could be argued, have taken over our lives. I came of age during the time of "scantron" exams and making little bubbles on a card with my #2 pencil. But that was a long time ago, and the people who design our tests, both their ...

  • The Wrestler and the Spear Fisher

    Twin sons of an island chief wage war against one another for the right to lead their people. One is a great warrior , the other a great provider, and eve the island's guardian spirits are unsure who should lead, and so they meddle and declare a cont...

  • Gift Time

    Somewhere in the city of Chiago, a man visits the storage unit he rents to house his collection of time machines. Where do they all come from? And of all possible dates, why does he choose his birthday to drop by?...

  • Alembical 3

    ALEMBICAL 3 is the tenth book published by Paper Golem, and the third volume in this series, continuing our mission to provide a much-needed home for novellas. The anthology features three original, speculative fiction novellas by Phobos Award winner...



  • Calendrical Regression

    In December of 2012, the Mayan calendar reached the end of its 13th baktun, completing the Long Count and signaling the end of the world... metaphorically. That was the day of Galactic First Contact, and the beginning of a new age for humans and alie...

  • Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard

    The Sixth Sense meets Planet of the Apes in a moving science fiction novel set so far in the future, humanity is gone and forgotten in Lawrence M. Schoen's Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard An historian who speaks with the dead is ensnared by the pa...

  • Trial of the Century

    At the end of BUFFALITO DESTINY, Conroy had lost his fortune and fled Earth. Reggie, his buffalito, had survived diving into a volcano, but slipped into a coma. Now Reggie is dying and the buffalito’s internal nuclear furnace is growing unstable. C...

  • The Moons of Barsk

    High-concept science fiction, deeply human characters, and a weirdly wonderful story drive The Moons of Barsk, the sequel to the award-winning Lawrence M. Schoen's Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard Pizlo, the lonely young outcast and physically-chal...

  • Buffalo Dogs

    He's the greatest hypnotist in known space.

    And it might cost him his life.

    The Arconi take two things seriously -- absolute truth and their prize commodity: buffalo dogs.

    When one of Conroy's hypnotic suggestions is taken lite...

  • Fight or Flight

    Ben Coop Cooper is a washed-up, blacklisted, former movie star. He's also dying. Out of hope and with no other options, Coop figures he has nothing to lose when an alien robot offers him a chance to resurrect his fallen star. He jumps at the chance o...

  • Alien Thrill Seeker

    Before being injected by an alien virus, Ben Coop Cooper was an alcoholic, washed-up movie star. Saved from dying by an out-of-this-world offer, his body was healed and his aging process reversed. Now a race of machine intelligences called the Box ar...

  • Anger Management

    Washed up actor Ben Coop Cooper was injected with an experimental alien virus that saved his life, erased years of alcohol abuse from his liver, and made him thirty years younger. It also created Dyrk, the secondary personality living in his head who...

  • Soup Of The Moment

    The award-winning novel BARSK mentions a bedtime story, a legend of the Fant who flew. Now read the story that gave rise to the legend… The soup of the moment can transform a life, says Granny Rosie. Young scientist Pholo is trying t...

  • The Panda's Dream

    A Panda on a space station is plagued by dreams and nightmares of an Elephant child. Can a Capybara therapist set him free? Years have passed since the Ailuros Ciochan, a Panda, was relegated from his usual work as a space station cargomaster to...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lawrence M. Schoen has published 30 books.

Lawrence M. Schoen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Panda's Dream, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Lawrence M. Schoen, Prime Codex, was published in May 2007.

No. Lawrence M. Schoen does not write books in series.
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